Building fantasy adventures and worlds with written words is a challenge, but a rewarding one. There are no rules when it comes to fantasy. Anything is possible. This is a genre that has been dear to humans since the beginning of time. Now you can be part of it.
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Essays on writing and Self Publishing- Advice for the fantasy writer

- The Epic Fantasy Blog focuses on epic fantasy and has lots of essay and information for the writer of epic fantasy. Heroic Dreams Blog

• How to write an epic fantasy novel - The secrets to getting the job done.. This is a no-nonsense approach to writing your epic fantasy novel
• Chasing the Wild Unicorn: How to find your Unique Writer's Voice You have a unique style waiting to burst out. Here is how to find it without looking too hard.
• Forget about the Grammar, Your writing will improve faster
• How to create and find Interesting words and names for your fantasy writing
• How to Design your Self Published Cover - With only a few seconds to catch the attention of a potential buyer the cover is the most important tool you have when trying to sell your book. You have spent hundreds of hours working on your manuscript. You should also put a fair amount of energy into the cover. Here is some solid advice on what to do
• How to motivate yourself to write Writing is a wonderful, yet sometimes, very hard thing to do. Often it is very easy to not “make the time” to write and nobody is going to motivate you. You have to motivate yourself. Here are three techniques that will get you writing.
• Writing Epic Fantasy with Courage Epic fantasy is a genre about heroes taking on challenges of epic proportions and overcoming obstacles that are seemingly impossible to overcome yet the genre puts out (safe) multi-volume cookie cutter novels that follow a specific formula laid out by Tolkien and Campbell. Break this trend in your own writing.
• Fantasy Writers advice: Its about the Internal Conflict and not the Dragon
• Epic Fantasy - It's really about the meaning of life Epic fantasy has long been considered escapist literature and something that adolescent’s read to pass the time. It brings to mind muscle-bound heroes who fight dragons and rescue princesses. But Epic fantasy is really much more than that. It is about the search to find meaning in our lives.
• Everybody Wants to Write! But Why?
• Storm The Castle - Creativity with attitude Great section for writers
• Sure Fire, Guaranteed, Four-step method to get you writing
• Writing Fantasy - A creative approach One of the most appealing things about fantasy is that it usually takes place in a fantastic and imaginative world. The mention of the Names Middle Earth, Midkemia, or Narnia brings up vivid images in a reader’s mind. But building a rich and vivid world takes a level of visual creativity that can be daunting to a writer. How do you get your reader to feel the stones of your New World? How do you get him or her to feel the landscape and the world as if it were a real thing? How do you show your reader the world when all you have is words to explain it with?
  
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Resources for Writers

The Chicago Manual of Style If you are a writer or are working on the craft of being a writer you really should have this book. It will help you to improve your writing. It answers all the questions that you could possibly have about the craft. Punctuation, grammar, sentence structure etc.

Alchemy with Words: The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy vol 1 (The Compete Guide Series) (Volume 1)

World Building (Science Fiction Writing) This book is designed to give science fiction writers the solid grounding they need in real science to make their fictions read like fact. World Building is a blueprint in words, calculations, tables and diagrams to help writers transport readers from one world to another.

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy Orson Scott Card's Hugo award-winning classic on the art and craft of writing science fiction and fantasy is available in paperback! Card provides invaluable advice for every science fiction and fantasy writer interested in constructing stories about people, worlds and events that stretch the boundaries of the possible...and the magical. They'll learn: * what is and isn't science fiction and fantasy, and where their story fits in the mix * how to build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world readers will want to explore * how to use the MICE quotient--milieu, idea, character and event--to structure a successful story * where the markets are, how to reach them and get published There's no better source of information for writers working in these genres. This book will help them effectively produce exciting stories that are both fascinating and market-ready.

The Writer’s Complete Fantasy Reference

Plot & Structure: (Techniques And Exercises For Crafting A Plot That Grips Readers From Start To Finish) (Write Great Fiction)

Grendalla: Enchanted Elvin kingdom - Available on Amazon

About Grendalla: Grendalla - Enchanted elvin Kingdom, it is a quick reference guidebook for young and aspiring fantasy writers. I've intentionally written the book in alphabetical order, with each character's personality described in detail with a colour illustration.

Welcome to a fantasy adventure of your own imagination, when you enter the magical world of Grendalla. Not only a colourful picture book of fairy creatures and their amazing lives of mischief and mayhem, Grendalla is a guidebook for future novelists. Because children have unlimited imagination, encourage them to create their own adventure stories with characters from Grendalla. Composed entirely in alphabetical order, from alchemist and gremlin to pixie and zip, each species is brought to life with a depiction of their own makeup. Their personae range from respectable citizens, to wicked and malicious creatures such as witches and goblins. And included is a map showing important locations such as towns, cities and geological landmarks, that will help place their fable. With countless new individuals to be created, and countless adventures to be composed, your child will relish. . . Grendalla, Enchanted Elvin Kingdom. Visit the Books Website to learn more

The Script Archeologist™
Discover What's Buried Beneath Your Script's Story.™ They provide a unique, comprehensive Script Consulting, Research & Analysis Service alternative. Using proprietary methods of unearthing the secrets in any concept, The Script Archeologist™ Can Help Your Story Go From Ordinary to Extraordinary.

Unearthing obscure (and often) buried facts to support your story. Their techniques and experience revealing development details & historical background for your backstory is what they do.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America site provides information, practical advice, and news about reading, writing, and publishing SF/F. ... Good site

SFF Net
SFF Net is the world's premier site for genre fiction - science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, mystery, and young adult fiction. SFF Net is a large, bustling online community of authors, publishers, editors, and - above all - readers.
Millions of individual fans visit SFF Net every month. At any given moment, hundreds or thousands of members are online, taking part in discussions, reading stories, sending email, or chatting.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Round Table
Welcome to the Science Fiction and Fantasy RoundTable(SM), one of the many Forums of the Dueling Modems community. For over ten years, the SFRT(SM) has been the premier online community for readers and writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Here you'll find exciting new services and familiar, friendly faces.

Author Network

Internet Research Resources for Science Fiction Writers

The Mythopoeic Society
is a non-profit international literary and educational organization for the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantastic and mythic literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. Membership in the Mythopoeic Society is open to all scholars, writers, and readers of these literatures.

The SF&F Online writing workshop

Fiction Factor The online magazine for fiction writers

Book Surge Publishing Publish Your Book Today See your science fiction book for sale on Amazon and available to bookstores in just 4 weeks.

e-booktime The Science Fiction Publisher For You Science fiction publisher offering affordable, fast and easy publishing service. Get published in print and ebook. Earn high royalty. You keep rights.

SciFi Editor.com -- Serving Writers, Literary Agents, and Publishers Since 1976 --
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Psi Powers, Religious Science Fiction, Space Travel, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel, Utopia / Dystopia

Canada's National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals

Pitfalls of Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy, General Useful Information, & Other Opinionated Comments
by Vonda N. McIntyre

TOC About Writing science fiction
Menu of articles on writing written by professional SF/F writers.

How to write a best selling fantasy novel

How to create the fantasy world

Writing science fiction links at suite 101

Writing Speculative Fiction, by Mary Soon Lee