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Lore, exposition & world building

Is ‘lore’ something which excites you or provokes a roll of the eyes? If you’re not a regular reader or viewer of genre fiction, especially science fiction and fantasy, you may not even have heard the term in this context. lore/lɔː/nouna body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or Read more…

By Simon Jones, 4 yearsMarch 17, 2021 ago

Writing

Why magic needs to have rules

Stories need rules as much as they need imagination; as counter-intuitive as it seems, placing restrictions on what can happen in your fictional world will help readers to understand the dramatic tensions, threats and challenges encountered by your characters. This is true regardless of the genre you’re playing in. (more…)

By Simon Jones, 7 yearsSeptember 10, 2018 ago