“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look…
I’m not the sort of guy who would burn his house down. But here I stand on the sidewalk, watching my little Victorian go up…
“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable,” she pleaded. “Something beautiful and full of monsters.” “Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best…
I’ll never forget when a blacksmith friend of mine made a sword for me. He began by taking an old piece of scrap metal from…
What do my characters want? This is what drives your characters throughout the story. If they don’t have a goal/desire, your story will be boring.…
To be a good writer, you have to spend a healthy amount of time away from your manuscript. To be a good writer, you have…
For aspiring fantasy writers, there’s a lot to gain from reading fantasy. We can learn a lot from the masters like J.R.R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson,…
There’s a famous fairy tale about a woman indebted to a crafty imp. As a result of some unfortunate events, she will have to give…