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Writing a fantasy novel is hard work. The world is very different from a tech noir cyberpunk setting in the future of grydscaen. There are constraints to the world and some of the descriptions have to be different. You cannot say something is tall like a skyscraper unless you are writing urban fantasy set in the current world. The setting for “The Seer of Grace and Fire” includes magic and technology which will be closely related to alchemy so there…..
The Seer of Grace and Fire by Natsuya Uesugi. This is the beta version of Chapter 1 of “The Seer of Grace and Fire.” ———————————————————————————- Chapter 1 Volumes of aeons past lined the halls of the Ecclesiastical University’s library. The weathered walls of the tower circling the foyer belied their age. Shelves stood five horses high with their wooden sliding ladders draped at various intervals. Dusk’s light shone through a dome shaped stained glass window depicting the Elven creation story…..
Over the past few days I have been doing the planning necessary for worldbuilding as I create the world of Arenth in my head. The difference between this book and others is that I have done some plotting. I think you call it “plotter” who plots things out and has an outline to follow, and the other is “pantser” which is flying by the seat of your pants and let the writing take you where you are going to go. Usually…..
So since we are going to follow the production process for grydscaen: dissonance, we might as well follow the writing process for “The Seer of Grace and Fire” which is the new Fantasy story that I will start writing in October. I wanted to talk about the magic system of the world of Arenth today, the land in which the story takes place. This will as much be a blog post on worldbuilding process as it will help me with…..
So I am in the process of doing world building for the fantasy novel “The Seer of Grace and Fire” which takes place on the world of Arenth. There are certain Fantasy tropes that most Fantasy books deal with. I wanted to create a legend for the book that would drive the back story for the characters. I am in the process of getting the notes for the story written at this time. So I wanted to share a little…..
There are a few rules in creating a magic system for a Fantasy novel. I will talk a little about that today and use the research I am doing for the new book “The Seer of Grace and Fire” as the example. For the upcoming work that I will be doing in this world I have to do an entire set of world building. So far I know there are 3 characters. A male who acts like a female, his…..
So we are working on the novel grydscaen: dissonance right now getting it published. The book is currently in production then we are going to India for business. After I come back we will be working on the manga illustrations for “graphic noise” and “Rogue” so that means we will not be writing for a while. But even though we will focus on drawing I still want to be thinking about writing. I currently have three books that are partially…..
On today’s On Writing we talk about waiting for galleys in the production process of getting grydscaen: dissonance published. So I just turned the manuscript in on Wednesday of last week to the publisher. The manuscript is evaluated and then if accepted endorsed to production. During the production phase the Microsoft Word document which is the manuscript is turned into a galley. Also the cover art is finalized and put into the cover template. The design of the grydscaen books…..
Today on our Making Manga series, we talk about screentone for shading a manga panel. A screentone is a sheet of sticky see through paper with a pattern on it. They usually come in packs as a set. There are background screentones, and ones for skin tone and shading. The traditional way of applying the screentone is done directly on the drawing after it is inked or it can also be done in the computer in programs like Manga Studio……
Today in our On Writing series I wanted to talk about cover art. We will use the cover for grydscaen: dissonance the new book in the series which I drew as the example and also talk about commissioning artists for covers as well. So you might say this is sort of a cover reveal even though this is just the line art before it gets coloured. Cover Illustration: Commissioning an Artist First lets talk about finding an artist. You can…..
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