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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...

I often talk about flow in my posts, that magical state when you’re so absorbed in the story you’re writing that you forget about the one taking place around you. When the scenes flow, characters come to life, and your mundane life evaporates. For a lot of us, this is the reason we got into writing fiction (and fantasy in particular) in the first place—to leave reality, even if for a while, in favor of a magical world of our own design. But flow comes with time. It can take a

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...

Getting into the habit of writing is one of the biggest challenges for any beginner writer. It’s a chaotic process at first, when your attention is easily pulled in a million different directions, and your ability to write and create seems entirely in the hands of the muses. But the ability to write consistently isn’t about the muse, but about habit. Just like the fact that this article was written on the train on my commute to work—I might be tired and not in the mood for it

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

After reading enough books, watching enough movies, and living on Earth for a while, you’ve probably noticed that most stories are...

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