You probably have heard about plotters vs. pantsers when it comes to how to plot. But in case you haven’t, let my quickly recap. Plotters are writers that outline the entire story before writing a single word. Pantsers are the opposite. They write without an outline or by the seat of their pants (hence the […]

Writing economically isn’t about money. I am not about to pull you back to the depths of your high school economics class here. When I refer to writing economically it means enhancing your writing so every scene pulls its weight in more than one way. Make a sentence describe the setting and enhance character development […]

So you are writing fantasy, the genre of the make believe and fantastical. With the only limitations being your imagination. As fantasy writers, we should be chopping at the bit to create creatures, play with physics, or develop a magic system never before read! But how exactly does one do this? And more importantly after […]