If you haven’t read my previous posts on building a fantasy fiction world, you’ve missed out on discussions about using geography to support your story, integrating the history of your fantasy world without resorting to large information dumps, and creating dynamic inter-character relationships by developing cultural factors like race, religion, government and social mores. Of [...]
Building a fantasy fiction world: magic
Filed under Tips & Tools on May 30, 2008
Keywords: Chronicles of Jord, fantasy fiction, Janner Kohl, magic, world-building
Writing sword-and-sorcery fiction
Filed under Tips & Tools on May 23, 2008
Keywords: Conan, magic, sword-and-sorcery
A close second to epic fantasy in popularity would be the sword-and-sorcery sub-genre. The term was originally coined by author Fritz Leiber in response to Michael Moorcock’s demand to classify the fantasy adventure stories written by Robert E. Howard. As such, Conan and Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser came to typify sword-and-sorcery.
The genre suffered some [...]
