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Extra Resources for Your Magical World Building
The last two posts, from Monday and Wednesday, offered resources to help you when writing a story that involves magic. I have a few more resources for you, though they may not be what you thought you were looking for. I have to start this list of resources with a warning. As writers, we need [… Read More]
Resources for Building Your Magical World
Last post, I asked some questions that can help you clarify the magic you’re using in your story. Plus I gave links for sites on magical world building. But maybe your story is based in a world much like ours, but has fantastical or magical elements. This is how I scratch the itch to write [… Read More]
Give Your Magic that Realistic Touch
So you had a brilliant idea today! A few in fact. But one of them kinda scares you. Not in the No I’m not really evil, I’m just a writer kind of way. We have to ignore those feelings, cuz, really, look at some of the things we write. Is it the idea of all [… Read More]
A Writer’s Digest Article on Research
One of my goals for this blog is to provide research resources for writers, so I wanted to pass on this article that appears in the March/April issue of Writer’s Digest, “Research like a Pro,” by Charles J. Shields. It offers tips on how to approach a research project, how to organize your findings, and [… Read More]
10 Bonus Resources
For the final installment (yes! I have more) of this series on historical fiction resources, I have for you sites with information on specific times or places in history. These are resources I’ve picked up perhaps while researching for something similar, or perhaps I stumbled onto them, and I thought they were worth keeping. Keep [… Read More]