There’s clearly nothing wrong with being inspired by history for your writing – historical fiction is a genre, after all – but Impressions has me pondering how closely a fantasy story can hew to real history without confusing or distracting the reader.
The Steerswoman Review
A scene early on, when Rowan attempts to explain how objects fall, and accidentally constructs the Newton’s Canon thought experiment captures the mood of the story, the temperament of the protagonist, and, when I read it, captured my attention for the remainder of the book.
Why War
The point is not in the specifics, but in prompting you (and me) to consider these things when we write. I’ve said it many times, and I’ll continue saying it; the most important decisions you make in your story might be the ones that you don’t even realize you’re making.
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England Review
Slice-of-life history books have a particular appeal, since they include the sorts of details that escape larger “history” texts, but that are exactly what can enrich a story and make its world immersive for the reader.
Until Death Do Us Part Release and Author’s Note
I sat down and wrote, for the "Monsters and Madness" prompt, a...romance?
Ancient Origins
This is not a formal announcement of a new series, and I‘m certainly not putting dates onto anything.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Review
Reading a book like Yumi and the Nightmare Painter has me wondering if Tolkien ever envisioned this secondary world concept being taken to the imaginative extreme that Sanderson explores in the Cosmere.
Two-Way Storytelling
It took growing my confidence as a writer, and reflecting on oral storytelling traditions and the performative nature of language, to realize that storytelling isn’t a one-way street, that I am not so much telling a story, dictating it via text, as I am sharing it with a fellow traveler along the journey that the story describes.
The Memory of Earth Review
He presents a unique culture, which we can know exists as a transient blip in that enormous history, and he gives us the Oversoul, one of the most philosophically challenging science fiction elements I’ve ever encountered.
Finding Eden Release and Author’s Note
Even the not-quite utopia Finding Eden features is too perfect to convey adequately and convincingly, especially not in two thousand words, and the attempt would only distract from the story I’m trying to tell.
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