Author: Gabriel De Palo
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Worldbuilding – an introduction
High fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy wherein your story takes place in a world different from our own. It has different peoples, customs, religions, places and things. Sometimes it also involves magic, but it doesn’t have to. Writing high fantasy is a challenging task because not only do you need a story, you need…
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The first draft
People will always tell you that in writing, your first draft is bad, no matter what. That’s just the way it is, and that’s the way it’s always going to be. Nothing will change it, and nothing you do will change it. I’m here to tell you that they’re absolutely right. The first draft of…
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Introducing: Magdalene
In the capital city of the continent of Aurelius, known as Cornelia, there exists a small district just outside the eastern gate known as Highwind’s Gate. Inside Highwind’s Gate, there exists a tavern, and that tavern has a rather well-known, boisterous, and fierce tavernmistress: Magdalene Highwind. Magdalene, or Maggy, is a tall human woman with…
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Motivation
Wow, it’s been some time since I wrote a post. Sorry about that. I go through patches of hyper motivation, and then other patches of extremely low motivation. Sometimes it’s in between, but the low motivation patches are the most frequent, and I hate that. I wish that I woke up every day and thought…
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Impostor syndrome & quality of writing
There are millions of books in the world. I come from a mathematical background, having studied it in university, so I know that statistically, there must be works of written “art” out there that are, simply put, horrible. I’m writing about this because it’s something that I preach to both myself and anyone out there…
A Forsworn Fantasy 