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As you look around this site you might have noticed a series of stories all labelled s ‘Letters From An Unknown Land’ and thought what are they and what is going on? Well here are some answers.
After eight years, and a lot of words written, I return to Track of Words to talk about how that time has gone, and mark the the site’s 2,000th post. The interview went long, and we get into writing the big moments in big stories, collaboration, the wonder of audio, and a lot more.
Sometimes you need to build a fictional world from a set of broad ideas. To do this you need to find and set the edges of the world.
Why you should stop waiting for success.
Astronio ventures into a deserted palace that was at the centre of the Cataclysm.
The Dead Kingdom is out now in hardback, audio, and e-book.
World Building is ultimately about creating the illusion of reality and depth. To create that illusion, we need to use details, to evoke mood and tone with details, and to put points on the notional map of the world we are creating.