Free Post writing Creating Archemagic There are many ways to craft a magic system that enhances a story. This post explores how I worked with a preexisting story and characters to create Archemagic for the Dance of the Sibling Suns series.
Free Post writing Stakes-Destroying Magic Why I couldn't use Dungeons and Dragons' magic system in my book, and a look at different classifications of magic.
Free Post writing Pacing Problems If there are no valleys, you don't really have peaks. You just have a hill, and hills are boring.
Free Post writing Unwinding the Path The problem of story structure in a roleplaying campaign, and a look at my book by the numbers.
Free Post writing Character Translation The kind of character the works well in one medium won't necessarily work in any other medium.
Free Post writing Two Different Classes of Story Fantasy novels and roleplaying games may seem cut from the same cloth, but turning one into the other required more work than I expected.
Free Post writing Disgust In which I discuss how my book elicited revulsion from a beta reader, and why that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Free Post writing Doing Time How would you keep track of time if the length of day and the length of night were unpredictable, if the sun didn't always rise in the east and set in the west, if there were no seasons to divide the calendar?
Free Post writing Facing Into the Wind Worldbuilding is a little bit like being in a feedback loop with yourself. You need to break the loop to get on with what's important: writing the story.
Free Post writing Space and Time The perils of including science fiction elements in a fantasy story.
