With the new year has come a new drive to work on my novel, and so far I’ve been as productive as I had planned to be in relation to it. By the end of the month, I should have finished Chapter 7 and the whole story should be in full flow. One of the areas that I...
Think back to most fantasy stories, from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to Rowling’s Harry Potter series to Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle and so on, at the heart of these worlds is a form of magic. The properties of magic can really make any fantasy world feel deep,...
-Warning: Post may contain spoilers for films or games you have not experienced yet. That said, they are necessary examples for what I am about to discuss, so please forgive me for any major spoilers.- When you think of novels, you don’t tend to think of the fight...
I hit a bit of writer’s block the other day when working on my novel. I was trying to get myself going when I realised I no longer had a firm idea of how I wanted my protagonist to look. I used to have an idea when I wrote the novel the first time but I don’t think I...