Debut author Genevieve Gornichec dives into how her novel The Witch s Heart reinvents Norse mythology and how NaNoWriMo helped her meet her publication goals.
Making Magic, Part 2: Structuring Your Unique System
In the last of this article mini-series, WD editor Moriah Richard explains the key components to a hard magic system and gives you some tips on building your own.
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Jan 26, 2021
So, you want to write about magic, eh? I don’t blame you magic is super cool. But there are a
lot of people out there who write about it. How can we go about making our magic seem new and innovative?
In my humble opinion, it’s not the magic that needs to feel new for readers; it’s what your characters do with the magic. And to be able to achieve that, we first need to understand how it works.
Olga Grushin: The No Man s Land Between Genres
Award-winning author Olga Grushin discusses what it meant to wade into a new genre and how she put her spin on the fairy tale retelling.
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Jan 23, 2021 Olga Grushin was born in Moscow, spent her childhood in Prague, and moved to the United States at eighteen, becoming the first Russian citizen to receive an American college degree. She is the author of three previous novels
. Her debut,
The Dream Life of Sukhanov, won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, earned her a place on
Granta’s once-a-decade Best Young American Novelists list, and was one of the
Gerald Brandt: Toeing the Line Between Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Science fiction author Gerald Brandt explains how this new series explores the genre boundary and how he came to find his newest book s focus.
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The Courier,
The Operative, and
The Rebel. The first of the trilogy was a finalist for the Aurora Award for Best Novel. His short story
Storm appeared in the 2013 Prix Aurora Award-winning anthology Blood & Water. By day, he s an IT professional and coding guru. In his limited spare time, he enjoys riding his motorcycle, rock climbing, camping, and spending time with his family.
In this post, Brandt explains how this new series explores the genre boundary, finding a book s focus, and more!
Some 70 years or so after the events of
Wonder Woman, 1984 finds the titular hero (Gal Gadot) whiling away her time curating artifacts and impressing mortals with her beauty and charm. She seems to be keeping a low profile, at least until struggling entrepreneur Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) acquires an ancient magical device and threatens to destroy the world in his quest for ultimate power. Wonder Woman must find a way to stop him, while also defeating the fairly random friend turned foe, Barbara Minerva/Cheetah (Kristen Wiig).
Arley: I’ll start, because I’m gonna frontload the positive
Josh: Good, ’cause I’m not going to!