The Beauty of Success

This week, I have made some serious progress on my ROW80 goals and I am quite pleased. Even though I didn't finish all of them, I've managed to lever myself out of the rut that I've been in re: reading and writing and editing and life. My goals for ROW80 are: read a book a fortnight blog …

World-Building: Building Worlds – Part One

Here's a handy dandy link to a pretty comprehensive introduction to worldbuilding. Enjoy 🙂

ROW80 Update

My goals for ROW80 are: read a book a fortnight – I should have finished The Last of the Amazons by now but I haven't. It's not half as engaging as it could be. I have, however, signed up at the local library and borrowed C. S. Pacat's Captive Prince. I'm going to talk she is holding next week, mostly because …

Introducing…Itsak

Itsak perches on the edge of the couch, a shy smile on his face. He is short for his eight years but long limbs hint at hint at height to come. I hand him a cup of tea and take my own seat in the armchair opposite. Itsak sniffs the tea, swirling it around in …

Introducing…Maisha

Maisha is curled up on the sofa, her long legs tucked under her. She holds the coffee cup between her hands, staring suspiciously at the brew and sits it down again on the table between us. Not a great start. I sip my own coffee and immediately regret it, the hot liquid scalding my tongue. …

WIPpet for Wednesday

Hello all! I'm pleased to report that I had an amazing time in England and Wales over the last week though the return to reality was rather harsh. I did do a WIPpet Wednesday post last week as well but I scheduled it and didn't have the facilities to add it to the link so …

Welsh Wednesday

Ok, so I'm not in Wales today but I'm on my way there! It's all very exciting. As always, if you want to find out more about my travel adventures, you can go to my other blog. I'm going to try and keep them separate as much as possible. I'll admit that the last week, …

World-Building for Writers: Creating a world readers will love

A really good check-list for world-building. 🙂

Denise D. Young

There’s nothing more exciting—and, often times, overwhelming—than creating a fictional world and populating it with an interesting collection of characters, each with their own agenda. A fully realized, richly detailed fictional world can capture readers’ hearts, minds, and imaginations. The world is full of readers who would eagerly receive their letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, who’d gladly take a stroll through the Shire, who wouldn’t mind flying off to Neverland or entering a world where dragons soar or werewolves roam.

So where do we begin? Here are a few of the exercises I use to get my stories off the ground. (Many thanks to Michelle, whose comment on a previous post inspired this one.) Discovering and creating a fantasy world takes patience and time—with each draft, with each exercise, we dig a little deeper, all in the hopes that readers will one day be…

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Le WIPpet and le ROW80 (Pardon my French)

So. Where to begin? The last few weeks have been beyond hectic but now all my assignments are done and I'm two days away from the mid-semester break I feel I can begin to relax a little and refocus on writing and languages, both learning and constructing. I did a general wrap up on the …

The End of This Road, The Beginning of The Journey

When I signed up to participate in ROW80 two and a half months ago, it was a spur of the moment decision that I hoped would help me sort out my priorities. For me, ROW80 was a tool to reorganise my writing time and ensure that I could find a way to fit it into …