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FREE Fantasy Creative Writing Planning Guide

Do you want to write a fantasy story but don't know how to start? Have you already started a fantasy story but hit a snag in the plot?

Well, have I got a PDF for you! Take a look--it's free! ✨WOW✨

(Opens to Kofi--resource is pay what you want).

Okay, marketing aside, I've been sitting on this for a while now. I used to teach a high school class on fantasy literature, and I miss creating stuff for it. I have all these resources and knowledge, and I'm not doing ANYTHING with it. So, I figured I'd put some resources together and make them available to the vast audience of the Internet.

This is the first of the resources I'll be making. It's a 39 page PDF with fillable worksheets and examples, and I threw in a separate black-and-white document for easy printing. It guides users through some basic planning principles that can help any writer, from beginner to expert, get their plot together.

I hope to make more in the future covering character, plot, the Hero's Journey, rhetoric, and maybe even editing and feedback. It takes a while to make these, and some of the future documents may cost money because I'm ✨lacking funds✨ but I do hope to continue with them. I'll also make some resources for constructed languages eventually if that's anyone's cup of tea.

So far, feedback for this resource has been good! Share widely with anyone you know who may be sitting on a fantasy story that needs to see the light of day. Please comment with feedback (I'd love to hear about what you'd like to see in the future or how I can improve documents like these), and leave a tip if you'd like!

Some of you might find this controversial, but I recently decided to change the love interest of my story to a woman in the name of yuri.

nobody is thinking about princess dick enough these days. have you noticed this

Mosquitoes

Thin buzz of hunger, constant hum. At night I drape a net around my bed just to keep them away. They like the flesh above my ankles best, and then the sweetness of my face. The Buddhists say we mustn’t want to kill another living thing. How often have I taken one, crushed it in my palm?

A saint said the lion is in love with the gazelle it hunts. I love salmon, so I sauté their bodies with garlic and butter, slip the moist flesh in my mouth. And haven’t I bitten my beloved until a pink stain colored the skin?

A tiny drop of blood is all they crave. Is that so much to ask? And they are so devoted, groupies at the backstage door, a band of Hare Krishnas, wailing in the street, cherubim, playing their small harps without cease, as they are said to do in heaven.

Only this is not heaven. I dream of a night without blemish, of love without the sting.

But here they are, a mini mariachi, hovering outside the net, singing their same old, high-pitched serenade— volver, volver , they cry, the song about the one that got away.

Bonfire Opera : Poems. -- Danusha Laméris.

Geocentric

Indecent, self-soiled, bilious reek of turnip and toadstool decay, dribbling the black oil of wilted succulents, the brown fester of rotting orchids, in plain view, that stain of stinkhorn down your front, that leaking roil of bracket fungi down your back, you purple-haired, grainy-fuzzed smolder of refuse, fathering fumes and boils and powdery mildews, enduring the constant interruption of sink-mire flatulence, contagious with ear wax, corn smut, blister rust, backwash and graveyard debris, rich with manure bog and dry-rot harboring not only egg-addled garbage and wrinkled lip of orange-peel mold but also the clotted breath of overripe radish and burnt leek, bearing every dank, malodorous rut and scarp, all sulphur fissures and fetid hillside seepages, old, old dependable, engendering forever the stench and stretch and warm seethe of inevitable putrefaction, nobody loves you as I do.

Geocentric: Poems - Pattiann Rogers

by Aleksandr Podrez

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