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First Paragraph World Building: A Lesson

No Matter How Fast You Run

Originally posted on Regina Puckett:
No Matter How Fast You Run Regina Puckett ? ? The rain pelted down Gloom filled the town Joy drained away Leaving a hopeless day Until all the downcast eyes Listened to a chorus of sighs Arms wrapped until they met Trying so hard to close out and forget That…

One Often Overlooked Element of World-Building

Originally posted on The Brass Rag:
Some great advice from this week’s guest author, Melissa McPhail Every author should understand world-building. Whether engaged in the writing of genre or literary fiction, an author crafts a unique world with each novel. Even when set in the present day, the novel’s events layer a new dimension upon…

Questions about Windemere

Originally posted on Legends of Windemere:
Yahoo Image Search So, I’m trying to set up some things for August posts and I came up with the idea of opening the floor to questions about Windemere.  Not my style, but the overall world since I can’t always explain things without going into info dump territory. The…

June’s Ketchup

Originally posted on Shannon A. Thompson:
Here we are again – the end of the month, the beginning of a new one soon to come. Ketchup posts are among my favorite type of posts (but really, who can choose?) because I enjoy sharing what was the most popular and least popular here on ShannonAThompson.com. If…

Book Review: Necromancer Awakening by Nat Russo

Originally posted on The Brass Rag:
Necromancer Awakening by Nat Russo is one of the finest examples of fantasy genre fiction I have ever seen. I started to say, “seen in a long time,” but the qualifier isn’t applicable, since Russo is well able to hold his own among such lights as Martin, Gaiman and…

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