by kingdompen | Sep 18, 2017 | Articles, World Building
A fine line separates inspiration and imitation, or so the saying goes. Writers struggle to define this boundary more than most artists—they are, after all, rearranging the same twenty-six letters in various patterns judged to be the most pleasing to the mind and ear....
by kingdompen | Sep 13, 2017 | Articles, World Building
By Amy CaylorI've always adored fantasy. I’m fascinated with princesses in castles and knights battling dragons. But I especially love magic (and yes, Christians can write about it with discretion). To live in a world where books have self-turning pages and...
by kingdompen | Sep 6, 2017 | Poetry
By Isabelle Evans There she stood, Tall and pale in the moonlight, Pearlescent eyes glowing, Silver scales shining. The dragon queen, Glorious majesty, Hatched from a moon, Fathered by a star. She opens her mouth, Breathing silver fire into the night, Casting light...
by kingdompen | Sep 4, 2017 | Articles, World Building
By Brandon MillerHave you ever worried that the fantasy world and story you are writing is too weird to be believable? Some fantasy stories are so far afield of reality that their authors have (valid) concerns that readers will be lost and skeptical of the world,...
by kingdompen | Aug 16, 2017 | Poetry
By Natalie Griffin That glorious day I felt a stir, One in my heart that I’d never heard. It was the Word Coming to intervene in my lost, broken life, To be a light in my darkness and a relief to my strife. Although it’s fair to say in my eight-year-old circumstance,...
