7 Tips for Writing Fantasy by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
7 Tips for Writing Fantasy
7 Tips for Writing Fantasy
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 2 “Genres” – Section 3 “Fantasy”
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
-Lloyd Alexander
My editor tells me that I have a magical super-power, one that I feel I must now share with you. I have the magical ability to look at a shelf of books and pick out the absolute worst fantasy novel there. As a result of my super-power, I used to think I hated fantasy because it was filled with so many of the most tired and overused tropes in existence that I
10 Tips for Description in Your Novel by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
10 Tips for Description in Your Novel
10 Tips for Description in Your Novel
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 7 “Editing” – Section 8 “Descriptions”
"Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary." -Kaui Hart Hemmings
Last time, I said that the next tutorial I worked on would be on the topic of editing, and I had every intention of doing that. So I worked this entire time on that tutorial (minus time spent writing and traveling, of course) and made a slightly disheart