Fantasy novels need rules. For fantasy, the big one is “How does magic work?”
That question literally supplied the plot of my first two novels. And the one I’m working on now.
Someone at Gizmodo has assembled a list for us: Rules of Magic.
TV Tropes is your friend, writer-type people. If you want to see the tropes and clichés of your genre laid bare, this is the place to go. Also, if you have several hours to spend on the internet.
Name-dropped
Just got name-dropped in the Coffee House Writers Group podcast with Scott McClelland.
The Coffee House Writers Group is a writers group in the Los Angeles area designed to support writers through critique groups, presentations, and social events. I go to their Wednesday Meetup in Long Beach, CA.
Beggar’s Crossing has been released by the Coffee House Writer’s Group, featuring fourteen short stories centering on a mysterious Arizona ghost town known only as Beggar’s Crossing.
You can find my first published short story “Tassels and Twins,” along with one of my writer buddy’s (Cory Rasmussen, with “The Space Between the Wind”).
It’s available at Amazon or wherever fine marmosets are sold.