by Kara Copple | Apr 22, 2020 | Fantasy World Building
Time is probably not what you think about when it comes to designing your fantasy world. However, time determines a whole lot in the world and it’s something worth thinking about. How do we measure time? This was something that hadn’t occurred to me when I set out to...
by Kara Copple | Apr 14, 2020 | Fantasy World Building
During this global pandemic, the availability of food has been on my mind a lot. Among many other things of course, but food is often on my mind anyway. With panic buying (I know half of you aren’t even using that flour to make bread so put it back), disruptions in...
by Kara Copple | Apr 4, 2020 | General Fiction
So you want to write a novel? Welcome to hell. Not really, writing a novel can be a lot of fun but it is far from easy. If it was easy, all those people who say everyone has a novel in them would have written one by now. It’s hard to know where to start, but that’s...
by Kara Copple | Mar 23, 2020 | General Fiction
Where do I even begin? The past couple of weeks have been pretty awful for a lot of people for multiple reasons. This virus is unlike anything many of us have ever seen and it has affected us in different ways. I’m writing a post about the mental health effects...
by Kara Copple | Mar 7, 2020 | Fantasy World Building
If you’re new to worldbuilding or are struggling with the massive task of building an entire world from scratch, it can be an overwhelming process. It’s easy to make some common mistakes while worldbuilding. So, this post will highlight which ones I see most...