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How to build a world, word by word

April 8, 2020Deck Deckert

Writing School In the beginning, the author created… When I first began writing historical fantasy, I was inspired by times and places rooted in our own familiar world – but…Continue readingHow to build a world, word by word

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How to build a world

January 30, 2018June 9, 2021Alma Alexander

In the beginning, the author created… When I first began writing historical fantasy, I was inspired by times and places rooted in our own familiar world – but leavened…Continue readingHow to build a world

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Badass Women

January 21, 2016Alma Alexander

History, historical fiction, historical fantasy When worlds collideAt Bustle, Hannah Jewell offers us 14 Badass Historical Women To Name Your Daughters After Take Nancy Wake, for example: commons.wikimedia.org(1945).jpg / Creative…Continue readingBadass Women

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Stories are alive

June 23, 2015Alma Alexander

What is it that makes certain stories last? That’s a question that Neil Gaiman explores in a lecture two and a half years in the making, part of the Long…Continue readingStories are alive

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But what is it?

November 17, 2014Alma Alexander

I am primarily a fantasy writer. That is how I view myself and my novels. But literary critics often have trouble labeling me, putting my books into neat little boxes.…Continue readingBut what is it?

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The art of time travel

June 30, 2014Alma Alexander

I time travel quite a bit. No, seriously, I do. It’s cheap and you can do it whenever you want, really. So long as you have photographs…. My father, the…Continue readingThe art of time travel

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