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I can only enjoy the beginnings  of horror movies. I used to love horror films much more when I was younger, but as I got older, the need...

People love saying they don’t have time. Between all the excuses there are for not doing something, not finding the time of day is the...

Every Friday night my friends and I play out the same scene: we meet for dinner and a drink, sharing the victories, losses, and gossip of...

If you’ve tried watching Wheel Of Time on Amazon Prime, Rings of Power, or any modern fantasy adaptation for that matter, you’ll notice...

The appearance of AI was met with an uproar: graphic designers fearing for their jobs, writers fearing that people won’t buy...

Let’s say you own a coffee shop and you want to create an online pre-ordering service for your customers (and no, you’re not on the wrong...

Books, whether fantasy, romance, or thrillers, tend to follow a structure. It’s true for movies and series as well. It’s a rhythm that as...

Have you ever felt that you really want to write—a novel, a short story, an epic fantasy series spanning five books you’ll publish and...

We’re used to thinking of writing as a creative art, and as such, one that should be born out of emotions, flow through your fingers...

Being a writer (even an aspiring one), we’ve all found ourselves praying to the muse at some point in our journey. We’ve all tried to...

It's finally that time—no distractions, no work, no parents, kids, partners, or any type of human interruption. Maybe you’ve even put...

My love story with fantasy began with Dragonlance Chronicles . The dark mages, the mysterious elves, the noble paladins (Sturm in...

Can you recall the first time you felt the desire to write? That moment when something stirred inside you, compelling you to open a blank...

Every writer secretly dreams of becoming the next insert-your-inspiration-here. Even if we claim we only write for fun, or that no one...

I wasn’t able to finish writing an entire fantasy novel until my mid-thirties. I’ve been dabbling in writing since my early teens, but it...

One crippling enemy that every writer—whether seasoned or just starting out (with more emphasis on the later)—must face is self-doubt. It’s that nagging feeling that sits in the pit of your stomach and gives rise to questions that almost always start with “what if” . And I don’t mean the good kind of “what ifs”  either. I’m not talking about ideas for interesting scenes or characters, or the daydream-y “what if Netflix bought the rights to my book and I got rich?” No. I’m tal

Sidhe, Drow, Fae. These are all terms fantasy authors have used to describe a race of creatures that tend to be tall, pointy-eared, and...

I’ll start with a confession I believe many of you will find very relatable–for years, I couldn’t finish writing a novel, manuscript or even just a story. Like many other fantasy fans, I began dabbling in writing in my early pre-teens. I was so inspired by magic-filled lands and the extraordinary heroes that roamed them, that I longed to create a magical world of my own. Each night, I would stay up late, typing away on WordPad (since Word was still a lucrative and alien techn