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Visit haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode10 for all you darling-killing needs.This week I’m going to look back on all the past 9 episodes and make some decisions about the way the story is going to move forward, based on all the feedba
Is it time you started playing D&D to help your writing? I’ve mentioned its usefulness for writing in previous episodes but let’s break down exactly why. Dungeons and Dragons, commonly referred to as DnD, is a tabletop roleplaying game which wa
Head on over to haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode9 for all your darling killing needs!This week we’re finally talking about schools of magic. What do I mean by that? Well, not schools, as in, education, but, rather, specialisations,
The watchmen, the fuzz, the sheriff and his men, the king’s guard, the empire’s soldiers. Whatever you call it, it’s always been a feature of the fantasy genre. Law enforcement is a central organisation in almost any society, so of course the w
Visit haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode8 for all your darling-killing needs.In this episode we’re going to be looking at the construction of law enforcement in my novel. We’re talking about the police or whatever system that keeps or
Magic wands and the fantasy genre are inextricably linked. The wand, as a powerful stick or staff used to wield magic, has been a part of human history for as long as we know. To this day, wands are still used and believed to be powerful for va
Visit haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode7 for all you darling-killing needs!This week I'm going to share with you my ideas about wands and the associated wand lore. We have all heard of this most famous of magical tools. Seen in the m
Everyone in the world has some knowledge of Cosmology. What is it? Cosmology is the facts of the universe. Well, the facts as someone believes them. It’s the conception of the cosmos as an organised, structured entity, including its origin, ord
Head over to haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode6 for all you darling killing needs.This week we look at the cosmology of WIPworld - well, whatever I have come up with so far. What is cosmology? It’s not as niche or technical as it sou
Harry Potter has become a household name, even in households that have never read the books or seen the films. It seems impossible to have missed this world-wide phenomenon. It’s a well publicised fact that in 1990, while Rowling was on a four-
Visit haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode5 to kill darlings from this episode!This week we are going to be getting into some more magical mechanics in my worldbuilding. Namely, the nitty gritty of how people interact with magic and cas
This is an appendices episode to Episode 4: Kill My Setting, about the Steampunk subgenre and its impact on fantasy storytelling.Steampunk is considered to be a subgenre of Science Fiction primarily, and a close cousin of retrofuturism, but, as
Episode blog is at http://haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode4 for all your darling killing needs.This week we spoke about the place in which the novel is probably going to start and the aesthetics I’m thinking about so that you can, h
This is an appendices episode to Episode 3: Kill My Magical Science about the real-world mythology of magic and its place in the fantasy genre. Magic is at the centre of the fantasy genre. We love it and we have reimagined it in thousands of di
Head over to http://haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode3 for all your darling killing needs!Here's what was covered: Magic is at the centre of almost any fantasy novel. Our characters use it. Worlds are imbued with it. Creatures are fo
This is arguably the most used character trope in the history of fantasy. Most stories of the genre utilise it in some way. It may be subtle or they might literally be called The Chosen One. To be clear, a chosen one is someone who is selected
Head over to haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode2 for all your darling killing needs!Here's what I covered: I really want to create a super progressive and inclusive fantasy world and steer right away from the white and male heavy fant
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for his novels The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, as well as the Silmarillion. The Lord of the Rings had been translated into around 50 different languages and has sold at least 150 million copies worldwi
Head over to haydenrodgers.net/killmydarlingsblog/episode1 for all your darling killing needs!This is what I spoke about: I want to riff on a lot of the expected elements of the genre but give them my own flavour or outright turn them on their
"What is a darling?" I hear you ask. Or more accurately, "is this guy looking for help killing someone?" No, I'm not! My name is Hayden Rodgers by the way. But, really, a darling isn't a person - well, sometimes it is, but they're not real. It'
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