It’s important, from time to time, to stop and do a self-assessment of the direction your life is taking: personally, professionally, spiritually. Are you investing your resources in the areas that you really want to? Are you making progress toward the goals you set six months ago? A year ago? Five years ago? The past [...]

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Fantasy worlds take all shapes and sizes. The physical landscape of your story’s setting plays a large part in its uniqueness. Creating fantastical geography involves more than just drawing maps, however.
Determine the Scope
Building an entire fantasy world can be daunting, and unnecessary. No need to create entire continents if your hero will only be gallivanting [...]

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The move went well. We managed to get everything inside before the heavy rain started. Unpacking always goes quicker than packing. The only hitch so far has been the delay in getting the phone, cable and address switched over. The cable and phone were supposed to happen on Friday, but neither were working on Saturday [...]

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Got a form letter rejection from Realms of Fantasy yesterday for “Relvan’s Rescue.” Return time: 41 days. I’m going to retire this one for now. I like the story, but I don’t have the time or desire to dig around and discover what it needs.
J.L. Collins is collaborating on a fantasy comic book that has [...]

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In between hacking up a lung and blowing my brains out my nostrils, I managed to revise “Relvan’s Rescue” yesterday. I added 150 words or so meant to emphasize Janner’s struggle with his feelings about a past love and provide a little more urgency to his actions. I then mailed it off to Realms of [...]

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