Tag: high fantasy

While writers the world over struggle to craft truly original stories, theorists spend their time identifying ways in which they are actually all the same. Joseph Campbell famously reduced the...

Characters are shaped by their pasts – that's why so many superheroes have spin-offs dedicated to telling their origin stories. While you don't need to write detailed accounts of what happens to...

World-building is one of the most important parts of fantasy writing – and one that many writers understandably find challenging. As well as things like culture, customs, language, religion and...

Understanding your fiction genre, and its subgenres, lets you alter and conform with confidence. You want a book that works well with marketing and cover design, and you want your readers to feel, at...