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Not a meme! Also not worldbuilding…

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Tags: book, Cirellio, fantasy, Five Rings, magic, map, novel, style, worldbuilding, write, writing

Thanks to Donna for pointing out a really cool tongue-in-cheek fantasy novel survey.
If you are writing a fantasy novel, you might find it fun to at least give it a read through.

(The Filmmaker’s Exam is equally amusing, btw.)

I guess you are supposed to be able to answer ‘No’ to every question, or abandon your project forever. LOL.

One of my nobler goals while deciding on the plot of Five Rings was to avoid or attempt to reinvent most of the common clichés out there, hoping to breathe new life into a largely unoriginal genre.

Let’s see how I did: Read the rest of this entry »

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