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Imagining that your Skills are Relevant.
In genre fiction, the characters that display the traditional male heroic fantasy display competency. This competency is usually the result of the hero’s past training […]
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Thoughts about Expanded Awareness
Many stories that involve a superhuman ability, can turn to the more cerebral subject of an expanded awareness. It kind of plays into the idea […]
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Finding Out that Your Character is a Rip-Off.
I have just been working on a little fan fiction as an exercise. I was watching the new Into the Spiderverse and thought about some […]
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Thoughts on Magical Flying in Wonderful Fantasy Settings.
This comes off of just watching the movie “Kiki’s Delivery Service” by Studio Ghibli. It made me ponder just what the option of flying can […]
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Thoughts on Prologues
I recently watched a video about an author’s effective use of prologue. You can probably name half a dozen authors that use these first pages […]