Fantasy careers

When your protagonist is not human, how do you build a connection for your readers? Brenda Clough offers 7 tips to make SFF aliens relatable.

A job can be either a piece of work, or an activity for which you are paid. A career is a lifetime progression of paid occupation. A profession is a career with high status and one requiring traini…

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magical inventor, they want to explore and decode magic to harness its power

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Today's post will go through my process in how to plan a fantasy series, the easy way! Writing a series seems hard, but it's a lot of fun!

Is your novel's protagonist is boring, one dimensional, and uninspiring? How do we avoid this pitfall in our storytelling? The solution is surprisingly simple—heroes must be crafted to be heroic! Check out Career Authors' Hero Checklist to learn how.

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If you’ve finished your story, you might be starting to look for a fantasy editor. Hiring an editor is a big deal for any author, and making sure you hire someone with experience in your genre is important. Read more about what you need to know about hiring a fantasy editor by clicking the link above!

Feared and distrusted by the citizens of the Empire, you legally wield powerful and dangerous magic

World-building ideas, character twists, and adventure hooks for classes, roles, and professions for dark and perilous fantasy worlds. Heroes, villains, and everyone in between have agendas, dreams, and goals. Everyone has secrets, and all have lost track of who or why they are on their current path.

Posted: July 5, 2017, 10:56am In one of the talks at the TED Radio Hour by Guy Raz, I came across one of the fundamental narrative frameworks that the Cinema industry exploits in their work: The Hero’s Journey. Joseph Campbell, an American Mythologist came up with a pattern of how the typical adventure of an archetype, The Hero, takes place. ... Read More