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Creative Uses of Magic in Your Fantasy Story

Creative Uses of Magic in Your Fantasy Story
Creative Uses of Magic in Your Fantasy Story by Philip Martin Return to Speculative Fiction · Print/Mobile-Friendly Version How can you create an interesting form of magic for your fantasy story? Will magic, in your fiction, be like a tool? A technique? Or will you have several forms, as Tolkien did in The Lord of the Rings, where the dark forces use magic like a bulldozer to gain power, while the elves have a wonderful nature that is magic simply because everything they do is "more effortless, more quick, more complete" than the abilities of those around them? In fantasy fiction, magic is the central nervous system. Magic doesn't need to be plausible, but it has to work well. 1. Magic needs to work according to firm rules. Everything should be set in place long in advance. 2. For dramatic impact, as important as the powers of magic are its limitations. In the Harry Potter books, Harry's nemesis, Lord Voldemort, has great powers, but even so, those powers are limited. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

The Writing Café Fantasy Clichés to Avoid - What Beginners Do in Fantasy Fiction Fantasy Fiction Clichés to Avoid - What Beginners Do in Fantasy Fiction [First, my profound apologies to the vast majority of readers who don't steal content, but I have to state the following. This article and all content on this website belongs to Val Kovalin, copyright © Obsidianbookshelf.com, except where noted. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without written permission from Val Kovalin is strictly prohibited. Here at Obsidianbookshelf.com, I always have to keep these clichés in mind. Architecture.An historic castle is sometimes really tiny! In reality, those castles and keeps were sometimes built small to be easy to defend. Appearance of character.Keep it to a minimum.I'm all for not describing your character at all, and letting your readers fill in their own picture. I realize that writers of romance or epic fantasy will probably ignore my advice. Characters – EthnicityWhy is everyone a Northern European? For example, I have a sergeant. Read Tolkien.

Alignment Tendencies Anyone familiar with the Outer Planes will have already been exposed to the concept of alignment tendencies. In fact, there are almost as many Outer Planes that exemplify such "in-between" alignments as there are planes for the nine canonical alignments. Alignment tendencies are a further refinement of the alignment system. The Alignment Chart This chart represents all possible alignments. The color scheme shows how the various alignments begin to "shade" into other alignments when Neutrality comes into play. Nomenclature By convention, alignment tendencies are given in parenthesis and are described as being more extreme than a certain neutral alignment not having the tendency. Using Alignment Tendencies A tendency can be used to indicate one or more of the following: "Not Quite Neutral" An alignment tendency could be used to show the preference of an ethically and/or morally neutral character to favor one "side" of his neutrality a little more than the other. "Not So Extreme" "Pious Enough"

Brent Weeks | 2. Writing Fantasy: Tools & Techniques a. World Building i. Tips/strategies ii. b. i.How do you write a bad guy? c. d. e. a. i. A lot of writers have different takes on your question than I do. But my answer is that the story is what matters. There are more and less elegant solutions to the problem of how you set up an entire world and lay the ground rules quickly. ii. I’m not going to be able to do justice to your question about world-building in one short post here. The world-building has to occur along sort of two tracks: first, you need to set up a lot of things that you absolutely know about the world. Secondly, you’re going to have to think about just how the world works. So along that first track of thinking, you, outside of the fiction, need to make all of these decisions about how the world actually works. Third, do things differently. Fourth, now you have to put all of this into practice. Fifth, the biggest thing about world building is that you can talk at length about anything you find fascinating. b.

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Fantasy writing tips, how to write a fantasy novel, creative wri Sign up to my mailing list, and choose a FREE EBOOK as a gift. Join here. A Creative Writing Ebook AVAILABLE NOW from $0.99 Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1 page 1 edited and/or translated by D. L. Ashliman University of Pittsburgh © 1996-2020 Return to: Abducted by Aliens. Bald Stories: Folktales about Hairless Men. Cain and Abel. Dancing in Thorns. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Fairies' Hope for Christian Salvation. 25 Fantasy Writing Prompts If you wait for inspiration to strike before you start writing, you might never put pen to paper or fingers to keys. That’s where writing prompts can help. Since I write scifi and fantasy, I’ve put together a list of 25 fantasy writing prompts to get you started. They’re mostly contemporary fantasy ideas: supernatural, magic, vampires, stuff like that. A working-dad desperate for money to feed his family turns to robbery, only to find that he’s chosen a wizard as his victim.A man comes home from work one evening to find that his couch is missing. 25 Fantasy Writing Prompts by Justin McLachlan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Get Your Mojo Workin’ with Creative Writing Prompts There is nothing worse than thinking your writing mojo is gone. If you need to reconnect to the passion of your writing and story, these prompts are designed to take you right back into your happy writing place. Start with these prompts for a quick-start, and the moment you feel your mojo come into your heart and through your fingers, go back to your writing and enjoy! (Keep and pull these out again in case of writing emergency.) Your Personal Book Journal Questions Remember why you wanted to write this particular book? Why are you writing this book? Ramp Up Your Story Need to inject some excitement into your story? What can you add to the mix to make this concept bigger? Write (First Person) in Your Protagonist’s Voice Ask for help from the most logical person…er…character! What do you think about what just happened? Write (First Person) in Your Antagonist’s Voice Don’t leave out the bad guy. Good luck, go forth, and reclaim your writing mojo!

365 Creative Writing Prompts - ThinkWritten Sharing is caring! As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you for your support! If you want to become a better writer, the best thing you can do is practice writing every single day. To help you brainstorm, we put together this list of 365 creative writing prompts to give you something to write about daily. Whether you write short stories, poems, or like to keep a journal – these will stretch your imagination and give you some ideas for topics to write about! Want to Download these prompts? Don’t want the printable version? Here are 365 Creative Writing Prompts to Inspire: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51: Sunrise/Sunset: The sun comes up, the sun goes down. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89.

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