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World-building for novelists -- No, your characters aren't in a play. Part II

Posted 11th December 2011 at 12:28 AM by Teresa Edgerton (Epistles from a Goblin Princess)
Updated 14th July 2012 at 06:16 AM by Teresa Edgerton

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Part II

Context

Without the context of a story, the conflict, the tensions, and the emotions can fall absolutely flat, confuse the reader, or create the wrong impression. The closer the setting is to the world we and our readers personally inhabit, the more the society that surrounds the story is like our own in time or space, the more we can depend on the reader to know the context and the more things both the writer and the reader can safely take for granted....

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GUNPOWDER and ALCHEMY

Posted 30th September 2011 at 10:56 PM by Teresa Edgerton (Epistles from a Goblin Princess)
Updated 14th July 2012 at 03:49 AM by Teresa Edgerton

And now a break from my usual type of post for a little self-promotion:

When the Goblin Moon rises, strange things happen ...

Coffins float down the river, hobgoblins emerge from their dens, alchemists pore over ancient texts in search of the secret of creating life, and the gentleman blackguards known as the Knights of Mezztopholezz practice rituals far exceeding the worst excesses of the Hellfire Club.

Meanwhile one man fights a secret battle against cruelty...