How to Build a Fantasy World: Realistic and Immersive Worldbuilding
How to Start a Freelance Writing Business
Can you make money writing? If you're here because you like writing, you might have dreamed a few times about making a living doing just that. Of course, if you’ve ever voiced that dream out loud, there’s a good chance you’ve been told to be realistic or even laughed...
New Year’s Resolutions for Fiction Writers
Christmas and New Year are over and it’s time to get back to normality for many of us. Oh god. I don’t usually set New Year’s resolutions because I know what I’m like and I never stick with them. Plus I'm usually stuck in some kind of chocolate haze at the end of the...
A Review of The Witcher: Is It Worth Watching?
Like many people over the festive period, I binge-watched The Witcher. It wasn’t hard. There was a surprisingly small number of episodes and I had some time on my hands. So today, I wanted to put together a little review of The Witcher to share my thoughts on the...
Why Celebrate? How to Use Religious Holidays in Your Fantasy Novel
With the festive season underway, I’ve decided to write a post about religious holidays in fantasy and what place they have in your world and novel. If you’re building a world from scratch, it only makes sense to make up some kind of holiday period. Holidays or...
How to Build History in Your Fantasy World
If you want a rich and big fantasy world you have to think of everything. One key thing you should be building is the history of your world. However, when you start to build history in your fantasy world, you'll quickly realise how tricky it is. Where do you even...
What Does Your Fantasy World Smell Like? Writing the Senses
This post is all about your nose. Might seem like a weird focus of fantasy world building, but I’m all about that detail. As fantasy world builders we spend so much time describing the weird and wonderful places we’ve created, from palaces to castles, to taverns to...
Should You Use Multi POV in Your Fantasy Novel?
Multi-POV, or multiple point of view storytelling has been around for a long time and a lot of people either love it or hate it. It’s been particularly popular since A Song of Ice and Fire and it seems pretty common in the fantasy genre as a whole. But should you go...
How Fantasy Fiction Can Help Mental Illness
It was recently World Mental Health Day and there has been plenty of content out there regarding mental illness and spreading awareness. I thought I’d throw in my thoughts too. Funnily enough, the reason this post was delayed and didn't come out around actual Mental...
Do Fiction Writers Need a Website or Blog?
Do fiction writers need a website? Every so often I see this question asked over Twitter and the answers are usually a mixed bag. In this post, I wanted to give my opinions on the subject. As someone who works with website content on a daily basis as a freelance...
How to Keep Writing When Sh*t Hits the Fan
Well, this has been an eventful few months. I’ve taken a step back from this blog and from writing fiction, because life, as usual, has gotten in the way. Over the past few months: The good - I’ve acquired an excitable puppy – which has really affected my...
How Big Should Your Fantasy World Be?
What is one thing a lot of epic fantasy novels have? Enormous worlds that take years or even decades to build. I love fantasy world-building and big worlds with endless details. I really appreciate the work people go to, to bring these make-believe places to life....
Natural Resources and Trade in Fantasy Worldbuilding
I'm guessing no one’s jumping for joy thinking about mining or trade routes. You’d rather be building your magic system, drawing maps or creating brand new magical species. I get it, but if you’re here, the chances are you’re looking for ways to make your world feel...