Tag Archives: sword & sorcery

#2 of All Time- 7 Tips to Writing Immortal Characters

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

This post originally went live on December 21, 2016. Immortality comes up a lot in fiction.  These timeless beings turn up as villains, heroes, love interests, cursed secondary characters, and everything in-between.  Many people hate a protagonist with this power … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Evil to the Core

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Here’s a big piece The Mercenary Prince‘s prologue here.  It involves Stephen Kernaghan who is still the most evil character that I’ve ever made.  Feels like I always have to give a disclaimer that he’s a special kind of gross and … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: The Beginning of ‘The Beginning of a Hero’

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

Thought about what I should do since this is the last day of 2024.  I already have my end of the year posts set and it is a Tuesday.  So, how about the very first teaser/excerpt I ever put on … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Bad Luck Luke

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

So, this is an excerpt from Charms of the Feykin.  I posted it a long time ago at the last minute because I had forgotten a promo teaser.  Not really sure why I picked this one other than it built some … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Bending the Truth

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

  Here we have an excerpt from Legends of Windemere: The Merchant of Nevra Coil.  I had fun revealing what the titular merchant has done to make a bit of accidental trouble for our heroes.  This scene is mostly playful … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Going Alone

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

This is one of the earlier War of Nytefall: Ravenous teasers.  This is an all action scene, which made it difficult to find a good cliffhanger/stopping point that wasn’t a sudden jerk.  Have fun.

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Teaser Tuesday: Post-Legends Kira

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

Here’s an excerpt from Quest of the Brokenhearted.  This is part of a bigger scene, which I trimmed down the best I could.  It shows what became of Kira Grasdon about the battle with Baron Kernaghan.  My original plan had … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: A Guest!

Posted on November 12, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

Here’s an old excerpt from War of Nytefall: Lost.  This involves Stephanie, who was the ritualist of Xavier Tempest’s team.  She didn’t get as much page time as the stronger personalities.  Still, I had fun when I did find a … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Mindscape Mayhem

Posted on November 5, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

Always enjoyed this scene from Legends of Windemere: The Compass Key.  I should have characters get trapped and do battle in their brains more often.  Though, this was an aspect of Sari still being mentally damaged, which is something that … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Aganippe

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

First teaser after Quest of the Brokenhearted went live for 99 cents.  So, exciting.  While this isn’t Kira’s first battle in the story, this is the first official champion that she faces.  I had a lot of fun writing the scene … Continue reading →

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