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Wormholes and Wonderland: Adventures in Interstellar Portals

Wormholes and Wonderland: Adventures in Interstellar Portals Welcome to the cosmic gateway of storytelling wonders! We’re about to embark on an interdimensional journey through the intriguing world of wormholes in science fiction and fantasy storytelling. Wormholes, those enigmatic tunnels through spacetime, have long captivated the imaginations of writers and readers alike. They are the cosmic […]

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Magic Fantasy Novel

Magic Fantasy Novel My Kindle Vella serial published novel Sparrows Legacy plots the adventures of Tara (19) and Teng (14), siblings who survive the attack of their Matie, Trine “Sparrow” Sworden. They soon learn the reason for her brutal death is by their unknown Uncle Endric who usurped her promised rule as Pashier, in her

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7 Tips How to Create a New Species for SFF Authors

As an author or storyteller, have you ever wondered where the Star Wars franchise, overly hairy, Chewbacca came from? Or who designed the magnificent Kraken creation from Clash of the Titans? What did you think about the amazing worms from Frank Herbert’s Dune? Did you find the lovely Borrowers made famous by author Mary Norton to be utterly fantastical?

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How to Write from Zero to Hero.

How can a writer go from Zero to Hero? What does that look like in a novel?
Have you ever said out loud ‘this is the best freak’n book’? That writer is a hero. But what did this novel give other books didn’t? How did the writer tap into your emotions (think The Hunger Games with Rue (author Suzanne Collins), or the last time Black Beauty sees his girlfriend Ginger (author Anna Sewell), or when Luke Skywalker shoots the photons into the Death Star, Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (author George Lucas)? Perhaps the author built the climax to such a high pinnacle you felt each step as you read further (maybe not quite as literally as the Lord of the Rings with Frodo at the Mountain of Doom, but something like that) (author J. R. R. Tolkien)?

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Futuristic Jobs as SFF Authors See It

Futuristic Jobs as SFF Authors See It by JL Nich This article examines three areas of Science Fiction and Fantasy jobs authors write as possibilities in our futuristic world(s). Jobs, Big Business, and Food are examined. Will everyone own their own spaceship or work on a flight crew? Will the big business have conglomerates like

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SFF Fantasy Transportation

What mode of transportation does your main character use to get from point A to point B? How do your favorite author’s characters travel? Is the travel made with advanced technology or by fantasy magic?

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Perfecting Problem Plot twists.

Somewhere during the book, a change took place, and, oh boy, you were not expecting it. Does Science Fiction Fantasy have a plot twist? Let’s jog your memory. “I see dead people.” “Where’s the Goat?” Ok that last one was Jurassic Park. I love that missing goat scene.

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LGBT Speculative Fiction Aliens

Does your idea of an alien look like a little green Martian, or sentient robots, maybe a deep oceans Titan race, a foreign planet, an alien hosted in your body? Perhaps it’s an alien female spaceship captain in a Space Opera?

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Foreshadowing LGBT

Foreshadowing – A good writer will give warnings or indication in hints or clues to an unknown future event.

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Fantastical Plot Ideas and Why

Fantasy is a genre everyone can relate too. Magic, fairy tales, superheroes are just the start.

Fantasy is escapism into the unlimited world of the imagination. The genre brings to life elements that do not exist in the real world. Think of conceived weapons such as the StarWars lightsaber or The StarTrek phaser or Wonder Womans Lasso of Truth. Or go much grander as fantasy worlds are imagined in such grandiose details such as Westeros from Game of Thrones or Dunes Arrakis.

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