Dig deeper into MD Presley's fantasy realms with a focus on worldbuilding and screenwriting techniques adapted to novel writing. Want your fantasy with a side of muskets? Then you found the right spot.
Second-world fantasy, also known as high fantasy, is set in a completely invented or parallel world distinct from our own. The author creates the entire setting, including geography, cultures, languages, and magic systems. However, authors of these made-up worlds still draw inspiration from real...
As fantasy and scifi developed as genres, prologues that told you ALL about the world were common.Told. As in, the opposite of Show-Don’t-Tell. Large, dull paragraphs of exposition-dumping (often using Butler-and-Maid style dialogue) were also common, as authors struggled to convey inform...
In addition to writing, he helps run theSix Figure Authors podcastwith Lindsay Buroker and Andrea Pearson. Past ventures have included the Science Fiction and Fantasy Marketing podcast and BrainLazy.com, and back burner projects includeWeird Nothingwith Adam J. Hall. He made his home in Bayonne,...
Take, for example, Anne McCaffrey’s iconic fantasy series, Pern.While the dragons are probably what most readers come away remembering, those who play close attention to the mechanics of the world are rewarded with a fascinating system to wrap their heads around. In Pern, the wooden tokens ...
of the assets would also be suitable for medieval fantasy settings, so fantasy authors writing medieval or renaissance style fantasy will find this just fine. They don’t seem to have any futuristic or scifi assets, though. Maybe not a great resource for Starfinder campaigns or Scifi writers!