#fantasywriter — Public Fediverse posts

Coming Soon…

https://claradmunro.com/2026/10/07/coming-soon/

Apply to be an ARC reader for my upcoming queer fantasy novel, Crystals of Ulstra. 🌿📖

https://bradleybowenbooks.com/2026/08/01/arc-applications-now-open/

#writingcommunity #fantasywriter #crystalsofulstra #queerfantasy #fantasybooks #writersofmastodon

Delfen and Floranta weren’t expecting to fall in love in the middle of a war. But sometimes expectations are limiting.

https://bradleybowenbooks.com/2026/07/12/delfen-and-floranta-love-and-war/

#crystalsofulstra #writersofmastodon #fantasywriter #writingcommunity

Prince Lazuro and Veziro Taguno, the king’s advisor, shouldn’t be together. Is this real love or is it passion fueled by different motivations altogether?

https://bradleybowenbooks.com/2026/06/06/lazuro-and-taguno-a-dark-romance/

#fantasywriter #writersofmastodon #queerfantasy #crystalsofulstra

Lots of big updates in May, like hiring a line editor! Things are moving along nicely with the book. Crystals of Ulstra will be out in about six months now.

https://bradleybowenbooks.com/2026/05/31/may-writing-update/

#crystalsofulstra #queerfantasy #writersofmastodon #fantasywriter

IT’S OFFICIALLY COVER REVEAL DAY FOR CRYSTALS OF ULSTRA! I’m thrilled to share this beautiful cover illustrated by Amanda Webb/Legends of Aukera.

Crystals of Ulstra is yours December 4!

#writingcommunity #fantasywriter #crystalsofulstra #fantasyart #writersofmastodon #queerfantasy

10 years ago, I started doodling characters I thought would be cool in a book. Alexandra is an alchemist who, years later, made the cut.

Then, "Awaken the Demon Goddess," was created.

Originally, her story ended with her finding true love; after multiple incarnations, I found it best for her story to be one based on revitalizing her independence and overcoming self-doubt along her journey of transformation after escaping betrothal of a rude, egotistical man.

#AmWriting #FantasyWriter

Caro Grifo is an important character in my upcoming debut fantasy novel Crystals of Ulstra. Meet him here:

https://bradleybowenbooks.com/2026/05/07/people-of-ulstra-series-meet-caro-grifo/?update=true

#fantasyart #crystalsofulstra #writingcommunity #fantasywriter

Meet the griffins of Ulstra! 💚

https://bradleybowenbooks.com/2026/05/01/a-closer-look-at-ulstras-griffins/

#fantasyart #fantasywriter #writersofmastodon #crystalsofulstra #writingcommunity #griffins

It was a very good writing month!

https://bradleybowenbooks.com/2026/04/30/april-writing-update/

#writingcommunity #crystalsofulstra #writersofmastodon #fantasywriter

Visit Zirkono Minado, an ancient citadel in the red mountains where Gardistona warriors and crystal seekers proudly safeguard Ulstra’s natural resources.

https://bradleybowenbooks.com/2026/02/16/places-of-ulstra-journey-to-zirkono-minado/

#writersofmastodon #fantasywriter #fantasy #queerfantasy #writing #crystalsofulstra

From Dragon Age to No Man’s Sky, fantasy video games have inspired my writing just as much as novels have. Have you played any of these?

https://bradleybowenbooks.com/2026/02/13/these-fantasy-video-games-are-writer-approved/

#writersofmastodon #fantasywriter #videogames #books #fantasy

Fantasy writers steal from history constantly; the clothing, the etiquette, the architecture, the politics, the grotesque and the glamorous.

#fantasy #writing #writingfantasy #fantasywriter

http://authorbriar.com/2025/10/29/using-history-for-fantasy-writing-inspiration/

I wrote a book about dragons, but that book about dragons ended up being so much more.

#writesky #writingcommunity #fantasywriter

https://kathrynthornwood.com/blog/a-book-about-dragons/

Every Friday, I meet a member of the British Fantasy Society and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week it's off to Yorkshire to visit the space between high fantasy and grimdark, where the characters are flawed and the cynicism bites, with Andrew Knighton.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/meet-andrew-knighton/

#fantasy #fantasyfiction #fantasywriter #books #fantasybooks #fantasycommunity

This free #InternetArchive book might help some fantasy writers out there:

"Medieval swordsmanship : illustrated methods and techniques"
by John Clements

https://archive.org/details/Medieval_Swordsmanship_John_Clements_Paladin_Press/page/n1/mode/2up

#writingfantasy #fantasywriter #writing #fantasy #medievalists #swords

Support the good cause #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #FantasyWriter #Fantasy #AmWritingSciFi #SciFiWriter #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Speculative #Fiction #WriterLife #WritingCommunity #Writer #Writing #Editing #Publishing #AuthorLife #Author #WIP #Books 📚

https://open.substack.com/pub/thousandtales/p/brittany-4?r=ufgiy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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https://open.substack.com/pub/thousandtales/p/midnight-on-the-dragon-tower-851?r=ufgiy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#FantasyWriter #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #FantasyBooks

https://thousandtales.substack.com/p/midnight-on-the-dragon-tower-175

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#WritingTip

Including food in your novels not only potentially activates three of the senses for your readers (taste, smell, and sight), it can also be a secret marketing tool! 🍔

If someone enjoys your story and a specific food mentioned stands out to them, they may end up trying to create that recipe in real life. Then, a person who follows the blog of that cook or baker may get curious of the source of the recipe, and pick up your book.

#writingfantasy #writingadvice #fantasywriter

Started Writers United May Marketing Challenge - 30 days of Marketing Fun!

#writersunited #30dayschallenge #writersunited30daychallenge #sirenbard #theconcealedonesseries #goddessascent #goddessascentbook #fantasyauthor #fantasywriter #darkfantasybooks #darkfantasy #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyromance #forbiddenromance #morallygrey #morallyblack

Day 28 of ZWP Sprint Spring Challenge - Our Blurbs. I added my trope list to it to fill up some space.

#ZWP #ZapWhamPow #SprintSpring #BookishChallenge #Writers #Readers #Authors #IndieAuthors #writersky #booksky #sirenbard #theconcealedonesseries #goddessascent #fantasyauthor #fantasywriter #darkfantasybooks #darkfantasy #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyromance #forbiddenromance #morallyblack

Hi, Mastodon!

I am new here and looking to have a great time sharing about my books, other writing endeavors, and occasionally gaming or hiking pictures.😊

I have just self-published a High Fantasy book called Weaving Dawn. The 1st chapter, as well as some Lovecraft inspired short stories, are free on tanjaveil.com.😊

#himastodonians #writing #writer #fantasywriter #writingcommunity #newhere #introduction

"Everything. About. Gate Callers. Is bloody. Complicated!"

They're the only Essence Form with more than one Sigil.
Their powers were arguably the hardest to write around.
Learn more about them at:
https://www.callersbooks.com/post/what-is-a-gate-caller

#callersbooks #bookblog #fantasywriter #books #anime #bookstodon

I received my first royalty payment last week - $1.23. And I will cherish that $1.23 because it means I'm doing it. You have to start somewhere. ✍️ 📚

#writer #writingcommunity #fantasywriter #author #amwriting

Random thought for world builders:
Think of unique fighting styles for characters who live in different areas.

Real World Examples:
👊 Compare kickboxing, Judo, Capoeira, and Kung Fu.
🤺 Compare fencing, hema, Angampora, and kendo.

The first fictional example I think of for magic is ATLA.

#worldbuilding #fantasy #writing #writers #writingtip #fantasywriter #fantasyworld #WorldBuilding #WritingThoughts

With the right signage, characters do not need to know how to read in order to know they are at the right place. The visual of the sign can also help make the location more memorable to readers.

One place you might find inspiration is “Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality” by Fritz August Gottfried Endell(1916).

📖https://archive.org/details/oldtavernsignsex00ende

#writingfantasy #worldbuilding #fantasywriter #WorldBuilding

I wrote a little thing about creative writing and how I should not be near a computer when life sucks...

#writingcommunity #fantasywriter #personalexperience #characterdevelopment
https://open.substack.com/pub/iliwritesstuff/p/opening-a-new-world?r=2mrre6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

You got some hours to kill? May I interest you in my Romance/Fantasy story about a girl that is spirited away in to a world where the seasons are lands and her past is nothing she ever thought it be?
Hold to your butts... this is
A story of Seasons.
READ THE FULL THING NOW!
https://iliwritesstuff.substack.com/s/a-story-of-seasons
#writing #romance #stories #fantasywriter

Wanted to share some of my favorite covers from my little project, I do wanna make new ones but I still need a spot for putting my little desk...

You can check the story here ( i will keep sharing it cause I want more people checking it out!)

https://iliwritesstuff.substack.com/s/a-story-of-seasons

#writing #stories #writingcommunity #fantasywriter #romance #digitalart #cover

I think for the end of the year I'll be editing the original draft ending for my story of seasons, it's already in the draft page as a... Clean up format. I may do a pic for it but I want to make a proper clean of the writing and make it...well... Understandable, cause MAN that thing is rough.

To catch up check it out on my substack in the little prelude page!
#FantasyRomance #writingcommunity #stories #fantasywriter
https://open.substack.com/pub/iliwritesstuff/p/a-story-of-seasons-prelude?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2mrre6

New: a free interactive map widget generator!

Provide the URL of your map image to create a map widget with clickable locations that bring up location info boxes.

https://briarcrawford.neocities.org/Map/map

#writing #writingfantasy #fantasywriter #fantasy #writer

My computer monitor is acting strange (its getting a little fuzzy) and I can't afford a new one, so I've been trying to get as many drawings as I can done before it dies. I can do this! ୧(๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭

This is another character from the story I am working on, Where They Lurk. His name is Fynlar, and he is a bit of a goof, but has a good heart.
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#fantasyart #fantasy #writingfantasy #fantasywriter #MyNews

#WorldBuilding : Fishing customs!

For the village of Eloailsa, the nearby lake provides fish, water greens, and clams. The fish and greens are preserved for the long winters, and many villagers spend mornings and evenings collecting or fishing along the shore.

I took heavy inspiration from Scottish history for the creel basket designs, but they seem to be almost universal around the world.

#WhereTheyLurk
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#WritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyWriter #WorldBuilder #fantasyart #MyNews

Hello everyone!
I'm thrilled to share my passion for dragons 🐉 magic 💫 and epic tales ⚔️ with you all.

As an author deeply immersed in the world of fantasy fiction, I spend my days crafting stories filled with enchanting landscapes and legendary creatures. There's something truly magical about weaving tales that transport readers to realms where anything is possible, where heroes rise, and dragons soar.

Whether you're a fellow writer, an avid reader, or just love to daydream about mystical worlds, let's connect and celebrate the limitless power of imagination together. Join me on this fantastical journey and let's create a community where our dreams take flight! 📚✨

#introduction #fantasyFiction #dragonDreams #magicTales #imaginationUnleashed #epicStories #fantasyWriter #bookLover

We're delighted to announce that Mya Duong, fantasy author of the Mindful Things series, poet, and healthcare worker, has joined our cross-genre anthology! Read about Mya and how to support this book:
https://ko-fi.com/post/Anthology-Author-Announcement-Mya-Duong-Joins-Ant-E1E7YEW5A #fantasy #fantasywriter #books #publishing

I've not posted an update since before we went off to the Lake District for the second week of April. Progress has been severely hampered since then by, among other things, taking 17 days out to watch the World Snooker Championship (pretty much the only sporting event we get involved with in our house).

That's all done now, as of yesterday, so I got back to the draft in earnest today and clocked up almost 3,000 words, reaching the end of Chapter 16 (of 21) and rapidly closing in on 80% complete for this first draft.

I'd already pushed my target end-date back on our return from the Lakes (from end April to mid May) but I forgot to factor in the snooker, so now my tracking spreadsheet is saying I need to achieve another 3,000 words EVERY DAY for the next 8 days if I'm to hit that target.

Unlikely.

But I'm pretty sure I can do better than the spreadsheet's prediction of the actual end date (May 31st) and indeed I have to do better, because building work starts here during the last week of May and it's gonna be utter chaos for three or four months. I really don't want the draft to be affected by all that. Sporadic writing time is fine for editing, but for "the actual writing" I need more focus and near-zero distractions. We'll see.

Current predicted final word count: 108,000.

#writing #fantasy #fantasyWriter #sffWriter #writersOfMastodon
#writersLife #writingCommunity #amWriting

Members of the British Fantasy Society: have you got a burning question you'd love an agent's perspective on? Jump into the dedicated channel in the BFS members Discord - Laura Bennett of the Liverpool Literary Agency is collecting questions for this month's Ask An Agent column!

#writer #literaryagent #literarycommunity #fantasy #fantasywriter #horror #horrorwriter #speculativefiction

#today I reached the final editing phase of the WIP - running my trusty "Stop Words" macro prior to working through the whole document one last time, correcting any remaining passive voice (where necessary), confirming or replacing adverb choices, eliminating words repeated in too close proximity, and removing noise words like "just" and "that".

Once that's done all that's left is front- and back-matter, and wrangling it into Kindle and print formats. Almost there!

#writing #SFF #fantasy #fantasyWriter #sffWriter #writersOfMastodon #writersLife #writingCommunity #amEditing

It's been a while since I did an update. Last time I posted, having completed the first draft in record time, I was facing a To-Do list of 115 entries comprising things I'd skipped over during drafting.

Those TDs spawn like crazy. By the time I reached the end, it had grown to 135 and took much longer than expected. Mainly due to the larger items:

• Creating the game. I'd conceived this cool game that they play in the port, and aboard ship. All I really needed to do was be able to write about it in a coherent way, but I became fixated on the idea of making something that was actually playable. The prototype is with friends and daughters now - a kind of alpha-test of playability. If it works I still might try to find somewhere, like a maker space, to have it made. At the very least I'll include the board layout and rules as an appendix in this book, because it could theoretically be played on a sheet of paper.
• A deck plan for the ship. I had everyone walking up and down stairs and between decks without having tied down where all these locations were and how they connected. A nightmare of potential inconsistency. It took me about a week to draft a deck plan - something else that I'll include in the book with a high-res version downloadable from my website.
• a town plan. Similar argument to the deck plan, but for the port. In this case I'm not having a street map produced, but I did need that consistency.

I reached the end of the TDs between Christmas and New Year, and yesterday I finished the final Scrivener pass, checking for correct characterisation, speech patterns, and plot.

#today I say farewell to Scrivener for this WIP, export to Word and start the final readthrough before running my "overused, passive voice, and proximity word" macro in preparation for publication. Almost there!

#writing #SFF #fantasy #fantasyWriter #sffWriter #writersOfMastodon #writersLife #writingCommunity #amEditing

Happy I Love to Write day! 📚
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#ILoveToWriteDay #writer #writing #author #WritersCommunity #FantasyWriter

It's World Mental Health Day on Tuesday, so I asked the maestro of these things in the SFFH world to write a guest post for the British Fantasy Society. Thank you, as always, for your amazing advocacy, Dave Jeffery 🙏

https://britishfantasysociety.org/writing-about-mental-health-with-sensitivity-in-sffh/

#horrorwriter #horrorwriters #fantasywriter #fantasywriters #darkfantasy #darkfantasywriter #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #worldmentalhealthday #mentalhealthadvocacy #mentalhealthinhorror

I put Chapter 17 to bed #today - six more to go.

Fewer stats than last time (don't want to overegg it):
Elapsed days drafting 58
Current run rate (wpd) 1600*
Projected completion date 21/10/23
Number of deleted scenes 18**

*I'm really quite pleased with this, mainly because it's the average across the full 58 calendar days, and there's been quite a few of those where no writing happened.

**Up from 8 in the last report, and you can see the effect of this in the graph. I did a minor replot of the "soggy middle" to tighten up the action. Also, I'd allowed one scene per character right in the middle of that action, which takes place on a new island. Turned out this was major overkill, so cutting, or merging, those scenes took me under the 125k predicted word count for a spell. As you can see it's slowly climbing back to converge with the target line again.

#writing #SFF #fantasy #fantasyWriter #sffWriter #writersOfMastodon #writersLife #writingCommunity #amWriting

An epic 4,372 words #today to close out Chapter 5, while I was camped at my desk babysitting the small crew who came to board out our attic space this morning, plus the golden evening session too.

This puts me roughly 20% through the scene list, and heading for a final word count of 140k (which has been fairly stable for two chapters now).

Also found time to buy, assemble, and use a new electric lawnmower, after last week's experience trying to manhandle the enormous petrol mower (we inherited with the house) around our postage stamp lawn. "Never again!" I cried, and so mote it be.

#writing #SFF #fantasy #fantasyWriter #sffWriter #writersOfMastodon #writersLife #writingCommunity #amWriting

Did a writer blog update on writing stuff

#WritingCommunity #Writer #AustralianWriter #FantasyWriter

https://lgrovejones.wordpress.com/2023/07/29/reinventing-the-wheel/

@FrostPoem

#MicroPrompt Chant and Silhouette

The hooded figures stood silhouetted against the bright, full moon. Melodic chanting filled the chill air. The creation song sung in loving dedication to Mother Luna. Her blessings kept the world turning for another cycle.
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #shortfiction #smallfiction #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #mastowriters #sff #fantasywriter #indiewriter

🔥❤️‍🔥SILVER THROAT - COVER REVEAL! Here it is! Vardari 2, Silver Throat, is released in Norway October 5th, that’s less than 3720 hours! (Can’t wait? Check last post in thread.)

Imagine having stolen the devil from those in power. Robbed them of their source of everlasting life. And started a war, so fuelled by fear and disdain, that you are forced to become what you are hunting.

🧵1/5
#SilverThroat #TheRavenRings #IronWolf #fantasy #FantasyBooks #FantasyWriter #bookstodon #coverReveal #Norse

My new #cozyfantasy short story collection, Spell & the Heart, is now available. It contains five fairytale and mythology retellings and has been specifically tailored for the Kindle short reads category of 1 - 2 hours, perfect for a relaxing afternoon of reading. Purchase it now. #writingcommunity #newbook #fantasybook #fantasyreading #writersofmastodon #SFFwriter #fantasywriter #fantasyshorts #fantasy #shortfiction #shortstories #mybook #kindleshortreads

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZN45BXG?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420

So I tried creating one of my characters in Microsoft Bing, image creator. The purview I gave was: woman straight black hair fantasy style, in a forest. This is what it came up with and the face is creeping me out. 😂
#microsoftbing #microsoft #writer #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity #writersinstagram #fantasy #fantasywriter #fsfalliance #swordofgrymm #funny #imagecreator

Connect with the world, darlings! Your imaginary friends are not going to wait forever! 😬🍸

#SnarkyWritingTips #WritingTips #writing #writer #AmWriting #WritersOfMastodon #fantasy #FantasyWriter #Bookstodon #books #author #NaNoWriMo