Writing Tips
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Top 5 Tips for Writing Magic Systems
Here are my top five tips for writing magic systems in your story. Hopefully at least some of these will help you in your writing endeavors. If you’d like to hear more detailed thoughts, check out my video on this topic. 1.Create Rules and Boundaries The most important thing to consider when writing a story with magic is to create rules and boundaries for how magic works. Even though magic can work however the author wants it to, that doesn’t mean that it can be written however best fits each situation in a book. There needs to be consistency and structure for the reader to follow, understand, and believe. Just…
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The Importance of Setting to a Story
In many ways I feel like setting is one of the easiest aspects of writing and one of the hardest. In some stories, the setting can blend into the background. Sometimes, it stands out as much as the characters. In fantasy, setting can be even more complicated and unique because not all stories reside in any version of our world. Many stories are about worlds that are born from the imagination of the author’s mind. The possibilities are endless which can be both good or bad depending on the situation. I know having too many options can be the hardest situation. Why is Setting Important? Setting is the base of…
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Choosing Point of View
One of the first things you have to decide when starting a new story is what point of view you are going to write this story in. Sometimes this decision can be easy, and sometimes it can be hard. It can depend on a person’s writing style. It can depend on what will serve the story the best. There are limitations, pros, and cons between each point of view. If you are unsure of the different kinds of points of view or the differences between them, I have a post to help you here. If you want to have a close and strong connection to one or two of your…
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Prewriting: To Do It or Not To
Note: Every writer is different and some writers work better with different methods. These are just my thoughts on what I like doing and they might help you if you are unsure how to get started writing once you have an idea or if you’re wanting to try a new method out. I hope it’s helpful! Once you have a new idea and want to get writing, the question is, do you just right into writing story, or do you predevelop some ideas and flesh out some characters? Well, it can be hard to know what to write when you’ve got an idea, but don’t have anything beyond a simple…
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Start With an Idea
Having an idea or something to write about is an important starting point when writing. It’s hard to write a book if you really don’t have any idea of what you want to write about. This doesn’t mean everything has to be fleshed out at the start, but you do need a base of something that sparks your imagination and gets you writing. Coming up with an idea is often a very personal process. Different people have different processes that work best for them. Sometimes ideas come easily, but the ability to stay motivated on the idea is the hard part. Other times, it takes forever to come up with…
