I am in the process of creating artwork, character sketches and manga pages for “The Seer of Grace and Fire” the new Dark Fantasy trilogy. Along with creating a Facebook Page, the Seer has become my new passion even as I am supposed to be proofreading the galley for grydscaen: dissonance. I promise I will do the cover reveal shortly but for now here is some Seer art work. The image on the far left is Timorn in a simple…..
So I am working with a beta reader for the new Fantasy book I am writing called “The Seer of Grace and Fire.” I had written previously a post on editing and one on beta readers, but now having actually worked with a beta reader on the first few chapters I have some different insights into the process which I wanted to share. So when I started the grydscaen series I did not want anyone messing with my idea. For…..
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…..