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...

Celebrating Nanowrimo Disappointment – Where I’m At #3

Hello all! I’m back from an unintended month-long rest. The main reason I haven’t been blogging is that I’ve been concentrating on something else for the past 30 days.   This month I did the same thing that thousands of other writers did around the world –...

Why Perfection is Overrated in Your Fantasy World

In our quest to build fantasy worlds, there’s a lot of trial and error. Mostly error if I’m being honest. We all get things wrong before we can get them right. Sometimes we never get them right, but today I’m going to talk about how it doesn’t always matter....

How to Avoid Info Dumping Your Fantasy Novel into Oblivion 

That shiny new world you’ve been working on for years – you can’t wait to get it out there and show the world. The world wants to see your world, I know I do.  BUT – like anything remotely fun in this world, you need to slow down and think carefully.   With a brand...

Where I’m At #1- Writing Progress

Hello all! Here’s my first Where I’m At post where I’ll be discussing where about in the writing process I am. As this is the first post from an unpublished writer, I will talk freely into the void. For anyone reading, my name’s Kara. I am working on a high fantasy...