Whether you are writing a piece of fiction or planning a role-playing game, world building is a crucial aspect of the story you are building, especially if you deal with science-fiction and fantasy. I’ve written a lot about world building before (which you can read about here and here) but I’ve never addressed the particulars… Read More Building a world
This post is a special request. To make a special request, visit our Facebook page and post on the wall, or send a private message. You can also write to icecreamforzombies@gmail.com . This post is a follow-up to last week’s World Building post. Last week, I explained how you could build a world from scratch… Read More Creatures and cultures
This post is a special request. To make a special request, visit our Facebook page and post on the wall, or send a private message. You can also write to icecreamforzombies@gmail.com . World-building is hard work, and unfortunately, this is one of the things that is most lacking in most fantasy and science-fiction works, though… Read More World building: it’s not just about forests and mountains
A note on genre I recently had a conversation with a student to whom I asked why he was making the choice to speak of space colonies in his story, when his story didn’t need different planets and he didn’t wish to address the colonial aspect. To this, he answered that he wanted to write… Read More It’s a cyberpunk paranormal urban fantasy with like romantic mystery and war
Or, has everything in SF/F been done before? This post is a response to a special request. If you would like to special request a post on a particular subject, please go to icecreamforzombies.tumblr.com and click on “Got a question about writing?” in red under the page’s subtitle, and ask your question. All special requests… Read More Been there, done that
Or, the essential difference between being BELIEVABLE and REALISTIC Science-fiction, fantasy, and paranormal writing expose us to worlds that may be similar or vastly different from our own, but which all share one essential trait: some or all of what goes on in there is not, according to the current understanding of the universe and/or… Read More That’s crazy, but I get it
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