Category: magic
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The Market of Magical Goods collection in print!
And in the next catching-up-on-things post, I’ve collected all the Market of Magical Goods drabbles that I used to put up on Curious Fictions, added another dozen that hadn’t been published before, and made them into a chapbook. It’s something sm…
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The Market of Magical Goods collection in print!
And in the next catching-up-on-things post, I’ve collected all the Market of Magical Goods drabbles that I used to put up on Curious Fictions, added another dozen that hadn’t been published before, and made them into a chapbook. It’s something sm…
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Not a Prologue
When I began writing seriously, I was a prologue skeptic. Too many fantasy novels I’d read or browsed in the bookstore/library had unnecessary prologues, often prologues with a poorly written poem-cum-prophecy or with a dump of worldbuilding informatio…
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Magic is Real
As a fantasy writer, magic is always a part of my worlds. I revel in designing magic systems and exploring how they might change the world around them. Nothing quite stirs the imagination as magic. Yet, with a degree in physics and a long-running fascination with the secrets of nature, I can’t help but feel…
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Chuck Wendig’s #FlashFiction Challenge: Demons vs. Assassins
This piece of flash comes to you by the way of two sources. The first is Chuck Wendig’s Friday Flash Fiction Challenge. And here is what he says about that: Way this works is, below you will find two tables — X and Y! — and you will pick (or randomly draw) from those tables.……