Useful tips on audiobook narration + helpful advice on choreographing sword fighting scenes with author Krista Wallace…
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NINA MUNTEANU talks about narrative responsibility and writing in the Anthropocene era…
Learn more about Sophy and her journey into writing + how she balances so many skills & undertakings while at the same time finding (precious) time to write…
Birdy offers helpful advice on world-building and suggests the best ways to modernize a classic fairy tale…
A neighbour buttonholed me to speak out about my big tree. My beloved Scots Pine is unpopular locally because the tree has grown far beyond my best expectations. I suppose I might have guessed it would grow into a giant, as it is also known as the European redwood, which indicates the tree is related …
Agathodemoning – asking good spirits to do our magical bidding Alchemy – changing the fundamental substance of elements (or matter) Angelspeak – communicating with lesser deities and messengers (angels) Apotropaism & countercharms – defense against demons, ghosts, and evil sorcerers using magic Apportation or bilocation (psychic ability to be in two places or more at …
Mirrors are portals to other dimensions … let’s start with that thought before studying liminality, pareidolia, and the art of scrying —
Once upon a time… Three jaded words that should upset any fantasy author worth her salt… It implies that the writer is fixing the events of a story in an imperfect & illusory moment in history. A time that is indefinable but, in some unspecified way, oddly familiar to us. If you were a gambler, …
Apropos something else entirely my wife yesterday suddenly exclaimed: “I didn’t think Mary Poppins was a fantasy adventure…” I looked at her and grinned, then I made a sarcastic observation along the lines of: “No, I reckon it was a documentary film…” but I later added, “What do you think the story of Mary Poppins …
Why do some readers hate magic so much? What can we do, as fantasy authors, to offset or reduce these reader aversions?
Neil Mach 