i Fantasy Fortifications — Part 4: Types of Castles By mythicscribes.com Published On :: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:01:05 +0000 This article is part 4 of a series on Fantasy Fortifications by Toni Šušnjar. Building a Fort Build time of a castle, depending on design and available funds, may last from half a year to half a century. It also depends on the situation before the building: a ruined castle is a half-built castle after all, and rennovating (and/or updating) walls is much cheaper than building new ones. This can be seen with city of Dubrovnik, where (massive) medieval fortifications were, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453., reinforced with outer line of walls to reinforce them against cannon fire. Both build time and extent of fortifications depend on material (financial, logistical, humane) capacities of the builder, as well as the perceived need. Many castles were never finished for lack of resources. Builders are professionals; peasants, soldiers and other amateurs were used for muscle work only. This means that they have to be paid, and many in fact travel from a building place to a building place. Beaumaris Castle in England required 400 masons and 1,000 assistants to be built in a nearly record time (from 1278 to 1280). Types of Castles Motte and bailey castle Motte and bailey castle is the earliest and simplest type of a castle. Continue reading Fantasy Fortifications — Part 4: Types of Castles at Mythic Scribes. Full Article History Fantasy Fortifications
i Keeping It Short By mythicscribes.com Published On :: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:00:09 +0000 You’ve got a short story that goes on too long? A chapter that reads at a dying snail’s pace? A challenge entry that trails beyond the maximum word count? You’re also relatively new to writing and haven’t yet dragged your way through all the millions of writing articles? If yes to the last and anything else to the rest, here’s your article. 1. Remove all redundancies. I repeat: Remove all redundancies. I repeat: …. “Unknown strangers” or “asked a question” can be removed right away. While it may sound silly, there’s a good chance you have a few of those rummaging around in your work for you to weed out. More significantly you will want to root out the various strings of wordy words writers conjure up. “At that point in time,” can be replaced with “back then,” or even “then,” if the placement in the sentence allows it. “Despite the fact” can be “although.” “Less than great,” is just a polite man’s “mediocre.” As a lone appreciator of purple prose I won’t tell you to always cull all of these combos, for there’s a time and place for everything and it’s called colle… a long-form story, but if you’re trying to shorten things up these are the first words to go. Continue reading Keeping It Short at Mythic Scribes. Full Article Writing Craft & Technique
i History for Fantasy Writers: Bank on It By mythicscribes.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:47:23 +0000 Banks appear in a number of fantasy stories. George Martin’s Iron Bank is probably the best known, but banks and banking families can be found all around the fantasy landscape, especially in modern works. For writers considering including banks and bankers in their own stories, knowing something of the history can help add detail and color. Money Changers Europe in the High Middle Ages, say around 1100, had a bewildering variety of coinage (see my article on medieval money), a crazy cobweb of overlapping public authority, and an unreliable network of roads. Banking arose in response to the need of merchants to conduct large-scale business at a distance in that environment. As you might guess, with so many different coins, knowing how to convert from one currency to another was a fairly technical business. That business was handled by a money changer. In Florence and other north Italian towns, the money changers set up shop at markets and near merchant establishments—any place where there was plenty of commercial traffic. The benches they sat on are called banca in Italian. That’s where we get the term bank. Money changers knew more than just how to convert currencies. Continue reading History for Fantasy Writers: Bank on It at Mythic Scribes. Full Article History history for fantasy writers
i Make It Awesome — Three Tips for Impressing Your Readers By mythicscribes.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 20:35:47 +0000 You’re a fantasy writer. You’ve created an amazing and original world, full of wondrous magic, mind-blowing monsters, and fascinating new cultures. You’ve got powerful heroes, menacing villains, and mysterious mentors. There’s just the right amount of romance. In short, you’ve got all that good stuff you’d expect to find in a fantasy novel. Only, somehow it’s still not coming out quite as awe-inspiring as you’d envisioned it. Today, I’ve got three tips for you on how to make your awesome stuff seem more awesome. Establish the Norm “When everything is awesome, awesome becomes average.” Every now and then, I come across a book that begins with the writer very obviously trying to impress me with how cool their main character is, and what an amazing world they have created, and how scary the villain is. All at once. In the first chapter. It rarely works. Let’s say there’s a ballroom full of ultra-rich and mega-powerful vampires, and then someone flies in on a golden unicorn and starts shooting fireballs the shape of grinning skulls. That would probably look rather spectacular as an introduction to a movie, but does it work in a book? Continue reading Make It Awesome — Three Tips for Impressing Your Readers at Mythic Scribes. Full Article Writing Craft & Technique
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