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7 Tips for Writing Fantasy Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0   Chapter 2 “Genres” – Section 3 “Fantasy” (Previous Tutorial)              (Next Tutorial) “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.” -Lloyd Alexander My editor tells me that I have a magical super-power, one that I feel I must now share with you. I have the magical ability to look at a shelf of books and pick out the absolute worst fantasy novel there. As a result of my super-power, I used to think I hated fantasy because it was filled with so many of the most tired and overused tropes in existence that I

10 Tips for Description in Your Novel Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0   Chapter 7 “Editing” – Section 8 “Descriptions” "Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary." -Kaui Hart Hemmings Last time, I said that the next tutorial I worked on would be on the topic of editing, and I had every intention of doing that. So I worked this entire time on that tutorial (minus time spent writing and traveling, of course) and made a slightly disheart