Okay, so time for more hints, but this time it’s something you can download. If you go to the downloads page you’ll see a few things. While the map in the book is good, the one you can download has a lot higher resolution. The entire world (you could wrap it around a globe), with …
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Thinking Up Alien Names
Fantasy and Science Fiction have something in common when it comes to names; they gotta sound unearthly. Something from another culture unknown to this Earth or any of its languages. But how to come up with them? There are numerous ways, and often the best is to just start slapping syllables together and see what …
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Mark’s 10 (11) Tips For Story Writing
I finally found the file I’d created from whence I got these tips from, so rather than piecemeal them, here’s the whole list at once. Then in later posts I’ll get into some specifics for fantasy and SF worlds. These are my 10 basic tips for writing a good story. Be it novel or short …
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Another plot snippet
Okay, time for another piece of the plot puzzle. If you have read my little sample, you will notice that there is a narrator. All well and good, and about the only time you hear from the narrator is in that beginning Introduction. Likewise for each successive novel in the series; a quick little intro …
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first plot post
Okay, so it’s time for a little bit about the plot. Well, first I can say that this is truly an epic series, far more than just your little trilogy, and more than even Harry Potter (though I admire Rowling). Exactly how much, I won’t say just yet. I will say that this first novel …
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