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This week, Vivian and I continue our exploration of character from our character series by looking at the various defining features of your characters, including abilities (physical, mental, and fantasy/scifi), culture, position in society, beliefs, morality, and relationships (romantic/sexual, friendships, families). We finish by returning to Bob, our character that we’re developing throughout this character … Read More “Character 104: Defining your Character” »
This week, I examine practical ways of using fictoscience, which is a method of incorporating made up words in a way that makes sense and doesn’t devolve into technobabble. I provide two scenes as well as lists of suffixes that I used to create the various words in the new vocabulary of the world of … Read More “Practicum: Fictoscience in Fantasy” »
In this introductory post in the new Character series, Vivian and I explain the basics of character, starting with what kinds of characters there are and how that’s determined by their relationship to the central conflict of the story. We touch on idealistic characters and how to handle them as well as the differences between … Read More “Character 101: Getting Started” »
Earlier on the Stellima blog, Vivian wrote a fascinating analysis of illnesses, what they are, how they feed and spread, and all sorts of fun stuff. After that post, they wanted a fantasy-focused illness that wasn’t a run of the mill disease or random magical disease number 3289, but something inspired by the magic system … Read More “Practicum: Fantasy Mana Diseases” »
