Category: Advice/Tutorials
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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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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…
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Show, don’t tell
Writing is hard. It takes practice, as do all forms of art. It’s difficult for someone who has never written before to pick up a pen (or keyboard) and write a story that is compelling and coherent. When I started writing, there were way too many “and then”-s, “she said”-s, and just overcomplicating my sentences…
A Forsworn Fantasy 