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How to write fantasy: What are we so afraid of?
There’s something blissfully surreal about Halloween. I’m not quite clear on how a festival concerned with our departed loved ones turned into a monster movie turned into sugar shock, but I do love...
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How to write fantasy: Series, Pt 2
Last week, we talked a bit about fantasy series and why I think they’ve come to dominate the fantasy landscape. This week, I want to briefly go over some of the things I learned whilst writing a...
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How to write fantasy: Everybody wants to save the world
… And the fate of the very world hangs in the balance! Wait! Conan, wait! Where are you going? Come back here this instant! Fucking barbarians. We talked, last week, about a classic high fantasy trope...
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How to write fantasy: Five day jobs for adventurers
The average fantasy career seems to entail a lot of travel and vagrancy, and an income made up mostly of whatever can be found in the pockets of orcs that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong...
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How to write fantasy: Sacrificial lambs
How do you find a gift for the deity who has everything? Sure, it’s the thought that counts, but there’s still something mildly embarrassing about offering up a glitter-and-macaroni thank-you card to a...
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How to write fantasy: Why do bad things happen to good people?
An interesting set of Open Yale lectures on the Old Testament make the argument that the evil ball didn’t find its way into Mesopotamian humanity’s court, philosophically speaking, until the...
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How to write fantasy: Life after death… and zombies!
Last week, we discussed some of the basic concerns a fantasy author ought to keep in mind when designing a religion (or just filing the serial number off Zoroastrianism). This week, we’ll dip into our...
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How to write fantasy: The R-word, Pt 1
There’s an awful lot of atheists in fantasy’s foxhole. It’s somewhat rare to see religion playing much of a role (outside the antagonistic, which is quite well represented) in the behaviour or thoughts...
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How to write fantasy: @#$@ that %*^$ with a !#$@
“Globbit!” Foozle said. “He’s the zoobiest froog that ever weebled!” Yes, it’s awful. Why, oh why, do we keep doing it? Today’s post is brought to you by the delightfully foul-mouthed (and really...
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Genresplosion
So I’m browsing my way through the iTunes store. I do this, now and again, to find interesting music. On the one hand, it’s gratifying to see that iTunes hasn’t been entirely victimized by the subgenre...
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