World building involves many facets and designing different aspects of the world is honestly a great experience when it comes to writing speculative fiction. Creating cultures, languages, and even religions is

A book blurb is a great way to market your story to potential readers. You’ll often find this being written as the summary on the back of the book or available

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Characterization is one of the most important components of the storytelling process and developing complex, memorable, and interesting characters is an important facet of the writing process. There are many ways

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The unreliable narrator is a tool that many writers use in stories to add more depth and mystery behind a plot. The narrative technique revolves around a narrator who delivers readers

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One of the most popular story structures has to be the hero’s journey, otherwise known as the monomyth. The hero’s journey has been used for centuries to structure many stories, and

With the recent popularity of romantasy, or romantic fantasy stories, and the popularity of booktok, there’s been a lot of talk about romance tropes that we all know and love and

Horror is one of the most popular genres in movies, gaming, and books out there. We have a whole month pretty much dedicated to all things spooky and scary and horror

As a fan of science fiction and fantasy, I always love to see books from both genres and even books that combine them. However, there is a big difference between science-fiction

Fantasy is a large umbrella term that encapsulates several different forms of fantasy, such as grimdark, light fantasy, high fantasy, epic fantasy, and more. I’ve actually discussed what grimdark fantasy is