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::Fantastic Realms: Using legends and history to create a ‘3D’ fantasy tale
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Thursday, 30 August 2012. Using legends and history to create a ‘3D’ fantasy tale. The sense of historical placement and an authentic background behind magic items, heroes, villains, settings makes a fantasy tale come alive. A story is suddenly lifted out of the flat plane, to one of 3D, removing staleness and triteness. This technique of incorporating legends and history is the mainstay of the greatest writers of the genre, and by and large, is an interesting study in itself. Gandalf has gone on to crea...
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::Fantastic Realms: Editing: writer’s bane or necessity?
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Saturday, 19 November 2011. Editing: writer’s bane or necessity? One of the things that has always challenged me as a writer is the daunting task of editing. I look at some of the revisions of past work and see the version numbers climbing as high as 80—I say to myself, there’s got to be something wrong with this picture! But surprisingly, no. It takes dozens of rounds and sometimes more to capture the compelling flow of a piece of writing, to hone the prose to the quality that satisfies. 8220;Then when ...
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::Fantastic Realms: Creating soundtracks for books
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Saturday, 28 March 2015. Creating soundtracks for books. Sounds like a pretty neat idea? An online reading experience with a soundtrack. I was introduced to booktrack. Last fall by Chazz Hill-Hayr. My experience has been this: FUN! Truthfully, I was taken by surprise by the amount of audio there is to choose from. Every genre imaginable —. From world, celtic, new age, rock, classical, to pop, jazz, orchestral, epic, funk and much more —. Booktrack is a dream. It's also very entertaining to add effects, a...
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::Fantastic Realms: August 2012
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Thursday, 30 August 2012. Using legends and history to create a ‘3D’ fantasy tale. The sense of historical placement and an authentic background behind magic items, heroes, villains, settings makes a fantasy tale come alive. A story is suddenly lifted out of the flat plane, to one of 3D, removing staleness and triteness. This technique of incorporating legends and history is the mainstay of the greatest writers of the genre, and by and large, is an interesting study in itself. Gandalf has gone on to crea...
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::Fantastic Realms: Writing episodic fantasy
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Sunday, 16 September 2012. What seems to be every writer’s dream is to create a credible character-world that can be continued, is immensely popular, is original, and goes viral. Perhaps, not quite. Books, the Tarzan. Fafhrd and Grey Mouser. All create this mystique, also the Dying Earth. Books, Star Wars. Series, Robin hood. Anthologies and more, including TV series of countless numbers. I think the secret lies in incorporating some simple but powerful elements:. The story builds upon this foundation.
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::Fantastic Realms: October 2011
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Thursday, 6 October 2011. Writing winning dialog in fiction. Dialog accounts for at a conservative estimate 30 %. Of all novel content. That being the case, care should be taken in architecting it. Yet this is a huge area which writers come into difficulty. Why? This article attempts to probe some of the reasons for the disconnect and explore the major areas of dialog writing. It really does matter what the characters say. For example, a good author is always asking questions such as:. Hmm There are auth...
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::Fantastic Realms: The glue of enduring SFF: having a past, present and future
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Sunday, 7 October 2012. The glue of enduring SFF: having a past, present and future. A rich tale encompasses all three time dimensions: the past, present and future. Is a story just suddenly over after the last sentence, or are there questions that linger in the reader’s mind? Is the reader thinking about what will happen next after the last scene? Has a sense of time and grandeur been conveyed? This ‘lasting impression’ is a feature which makes some stories stand out more than others. And Game of Thrones.
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::Fantastic Realms: August 2011
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Saturday, 27 August 2011. It’s all about the action, isn’t it? Well, not quite. In addition to good dialogue, pacing, and keeping the action flowing within the rest of the story, good story-telling is as much a player in a successful adventure as any quantity of action. Weak story or depthless plot means ‘bad adventure’. So what is it that grabs readers? Is it action, gore, horror, revenge? What drives the character? Did it suit the author’s theme? Lord of the Rings. And RE. Howard’s Conan. The reader fi...
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::Fantastic Realms: Compelling World-building—Luck or Craft?
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Saturday, 10 September 2011. Compelling World-building—Luck or Craft? Thousands of writers have pitched their skills at creating new worlds and associated compelling stories. Some worlds have been more successful than others. Why? I wish to analyze this issue using four general premises. Probably the classic example of a time-tested successful world is the wildly exotic concocted universe of Lewis Carroll, “ Alice in Wonderland. Why is the world perfect? Why, is the series so successful then? 8211;the ch...
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::Fantastic Realms: November 2011
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Saturday, 19 November 2011. Editing: writer’s bane or necessity? One of the things that has always challenged me as a writer is the daunting task of editing. I look at some of the revisions of past work and see the version numbers climbing as high as 80—I say to myself, there’s got to be something wrong with this picture! But surprisingly, no. It takes dozens of rounds and sometimes more to capture the compelling flow of a piece of writing, to hone the prose to the quality that satisfies. 8220;Then when ...
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