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Sleeper of the Wildwood Fugue Cover Teaser

So this is part of the cover for SLEEPER OF THE WILDWOOD FUGUE.  Jason will be doing the final touches today, so expect the ‘Book is Live!’ email tomorrow.  Always willing to take more volunteers for this.  I’ll make a … Continue reading

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Why Don’t You Kill the Hero?

This is a spontaneous post born from an interesting statement on a review.  The person asked why the villains don’t kill the heroes or why I explain the reason for such an action.  You know what?  I’m betting we all … Continue reading

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Throwback Post: These Are Not Rules of Fantasy

I’m drawing out a popular post from July 4, 2014.  I’m still standing by this, but a year hasn’t even passed.  As usual, I don’t edit these when I put them back up for another look.  I might be doing … Continue reading

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So You Wanna Kill a Character?

I was going to be serious and some of these suggestions will be in that category.  Yet I find myself in a silly mood, which means we’ll see what happens.  So what are some things to consider when killing off … Continue reading

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Return of Boromir, We Hardly Knew Ye

Way back on January 30th, 2103, I wrote a posted entitled ‘Boromir, We Hardley Knew Ye‘.  This was two months after I started blogging so I got no comments and very few likes on it.  It was about killing characters … Continue reading

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These Are Not Rules of Fantasy

A big headache for genre writing is that nearly every reader has their own set of rules about how that genre should work.  They have their favorite authors and all others get compared to those ‘elite’.  Any deviation is met … Continue reading

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The Crying Scene and The Beloved Villain

I just finished watching an anime I’ve been meaning to get to for a long time.  I saw the first version of it and read a lot of the manga, but this was the new version that I finally got … Continue reading

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Afterlife in Windemere

The afterlife of Windemere has yet to come up because it really isn’t a focus of the Legends of Windemere series.  There is an interesting history about it, but that appears more in a later series.  Key point: The God … Continue reading

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Religion and the Afterlife in Fantasy Fiction

A central part to many fantasy worlds are the gods and religions.  I went over this long ago here, which explained the various systems I’d seen in fantasy.  This time I’m going to briefly talk about the afterlife and open … Continue reading

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Resurrection of Characters

A common quest in fantasy series is the concept of ‘Resurrection’.  A hero has fallen and the remaining warriors go to revive him.  The main villain has been killed and there is now a plan to bring him back to … Continue reading

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