At the beginning of June, I hit the halfway point in my major WIP and discovered I’d written myself into a corner. Despite using a detailed outline, things became derailed enough that I had to do some serious work rearranging plot points and adding new ones to get to the… Read the rest...

As is typical of beginning authors, when I first started developing my own fantasy world, I packed as much as possible into it. Every fantasy creature under the sun could be found roaming the planet, and usually all in the same area. Most of my stories originally took place in… Read the rest...

One of the biggest challenges I’ve encountered in writing my fantasy books is working out magical transportation. I mean, magical gateways are nothing new. Portals have been around for as long as people have believed in magic, but that’s part of the problem: when magic portals have been around forever,… Read the rest...