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Fantasy Writing Master Techniques

Everything you need to add depth and texture to your fantasy stories

Next week, ProWritingAid is hosting its first ever Fantasy Writer's Week, a series of events with fantasy experts who will help you develop and strengthen your writing process. To get you in the fantasy-writing mood, we've collected our best fantasy writing articles together in this newsletter.

Writing a fantasy novel isn't easy. With far-reaching plots, large character casts and vast worlds that you'll build from the metaphorical ground up, there's a lot to consider before you start writing.

This can be daunting, but don't worry! Keep reading to find detailed guides to help you create convincing characters, immerse your reader in your world and even create whole new species. We also get into the nitty-gritty of outlining and plotting your novel.

Whatever stage of the fantasy writing process you're at, there's something here for you.

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Our first ever Fantasy Writer’s Week will be jam-packed with events for fantasy authors. With live sessions with fantasy writers TJ Klune, Angela J. Ford, David Farland, and Stephanie BwaBwa, a world-building workshop, a complete World Anvil software walkthrough, and four fantasy writing workshops, don’t miss this event if you’re passionate about fantasy.

Participants will get access to:

Training sessions, workshops and Q&As specifically curated for fantasy writers
Daily networking events where you can meet other writers
Our dedicated closed Facebook group, just for Fantasy Writer's Week participants

If you love writing fantasy, this is the event for you.

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Pen Names

Hello all, I'm debating on whether or not to us a pen name for my crime novels. You see, way back in 2001 when I made my first sale, I used the name Richard Lee ( http://threeand10.com ). In 2009 a publisher of my second novel, The Last Church convinced me to use my real name. Although I announced the name change to my massive Ning group, MySpace and Twitter, not a lot of people took notice and The Last Church didn't sell as well as it should have with the Richard Lee brand. I had no idea about branding back then. Now, I do. In 2015, I returned to write under the Richard Lee brand and some comments I got were: I wondered what happened to you. Welcome back, Dude. Missed you. Are you still writing? etc. My books now sell in several languages. Richard Lee wrote horror and science fiction (usually blended together). Now that I'm writing crime, ( http://www.thriller.nz ) I decided to switch to my real name, and start crime fiction branding (no idea how to do that). But, now I&

Sometimes you gotta stop

I've been going over my book a lot. It is after all my first Crime Thriller. I wrote a new beginning, showing our hero doing normal world stuff, added a few paragraphs here and there to refresh memories of absent characters that will reappear. It's been edited, reedited and pro(?)-edited. Rewritten, added to and cut. There comes a time when you have to just let it be. Send that kid out into the world. Even though it's book 1 of 2, it has to fly on it's own merit as a complete stop with one hell of a cliffhanger. I have spent the morning looking for an assessor to go through the book and while that is happening, I can get a head start on book 2. In fact, I've already started doing that. Scrivener was my writing app of choice for a long time. But my old 2gb MacbookAir can't support version 3, so instead of using version 2.9 (really slow on my Mac), I have decided to use online writing apps, so I can write from anywhere on any available machine. I rewrote the

How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig | TEDxMalibu

This is a must watch video. Do you know what you wanna do with your life? My wife worked it out two years ago and put a plan into action at the age of 52 (back then) to be a kids English teacher. My wife can find joy in almost everything, even meeting hew people. She sometimes laughs when they introduce themselves. She's bursting with joy. She's very very VERY social. People sometimes give her a strange looks when can't contain herself and laughs at introductions. I know why. You do too, now. My wife found her life's purpose by accident. I knew my life's purpose at age eight (when I stopped drawing and started writing) but never really put a plan into action. I wrote many short stories but New Zealand didn't have much of a market (actually it had none) for the horror stories I wrote. This was in the late 80's and 90's before the Internet opened wide. Thanks to the Internet, I sold my first short story in 2001. Writer's groups were all over the pla

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