Its finally here! This week I go through the different schools of magic that exist in WIPworld and what that at all means. From Scapecasters to Spellweaves and muuuch more. Here’s a snippet from this week’s story, Potluck.Get your dose of fantasy and an original short story. Listen to Kill My Darlings wherever you listen to podcasts. Links on blog or as source ☝️
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Some worldbuilding lessons we can we learn from law enforcement in fanatsy novels. Listen to Kill My Darlings for more writing tips! Find it wherever you get your podcasts. Links on blog or as source ☝️
In this appendices episode we take a broad look at the different roles that law enforcement usually takes in the fantasy adventure genre. From the world of Robin Hood to the alternate reality of His Dark Materials to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and many more across screen and page.Explore the fantasy adventure genre with Kill My Darlings. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Links on blog or as source☝️
As promised in this week’s episode, here’s an insignia concept for The Cloak and Dagger Company. What do you think? . Listen to Kill My Darlings wherever you get your podcasts. Links on blog or as source ☝️
I am loving this ¾ cape look as as the uniform style for the Cloak and Dagger Company! Especially love the idea of it being over the suit for perhaps the more administrative positions. What do you think? Listen to Kill My Darlings wherever you listen to podcasts! Links on blog or as source ☝️
What do you think? And what are some creative changes you could make to move away from Eurocentrism? Explore the fantasy genre with Kill My Darlings. Listen wherever you get podcasts! Links on blog or as source ☝️
This week we are examining fantasy law enforcement and in particular an organisation I’ve devised. There’s some great suggestions in the community feedback including strong potential for darling killing. And the short story this week is a WIPworld twist on the classic crime-on-a-train trope..Listen to Kill My Darlings wherever you get your podcasts! Links on the blog or as source ☝️
This week on the podcast I mentioned the earliest movies responsible for cementing certain ideas about wands into culture. Here they are so you can see for yourself (though you’ve probably already seen them). Listen to Kill My Darlings wherever you listen to podcasts. Links on blog ☝️ or as source.
Some writing tips learned from the history of magic wands in fiction. Taken, of course, from my latest appendices episode: Magic Wands in Fiction. Get more writing tips and facts on Kill My Darlings - find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Links on blog (or as source)☝️
Magic wands have been a part of human cultures for millennia, both as a real tool and as a feature in stories. In this episode we take a look at how wand history has influenced our fictional narratives and where our stories have turned the magic wand into something new.
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Can you see something in here that would be your wand? So many ideas in this one image. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Listen to the latest episode of Kill My Darlings, Kill My Wand Lore. Links on blog ☝️ or as image source.
📷 by @life.by.linus - go check out their gorgeous profile. This is kind of how I imagine the wand or magic store I spoke about in this week’s episode. Who knows what treasures you might find! Don’t know what I’m talking about? Listen to the episode anywhere you get your podcasts or find links on the blog ☝️ Link also set as source.
Have you had that puzzle-piece moment? Did you catch this quote in this week’s episode? Listen to Kill My Darlings wherever you find your podcasts. Also linked as picture source!
This week we take a look at what magic wands are in WIPworld. I explain why anything could be a magic wand and you might catch a burly man casting spells with a hairbrush or a middle aged woman doing battle with a birdcage. Of course we get feedback from the community as well and hear this week’s original short story, entitled Runaways, where I put this idea into words!Listen to Kill My Darlings now! Links are in the bio or you can find it wherever you listen to podcasts.
If you’ve listened to Episode 6: Kill My Cosmology, you’ll know that I drew inspiration from the Dungeon Master’s Guide from @dndwizards for my world’s cosmology. This is a drawing I made way back when that idea was actually for a campaign I was planning. You can see how that’s changed a lot now and the original idea was of course aligned a lot more with the game. Listen to Kill My Darlings anywhere you find your podcasts! Links on blog ☝️
Check out this incredible art called The Astral Sea by @wuggyprime - this is definitely giving me those in-between, dream-layer vibes that we discussed in Episode 6: Kill My Cosmology. Go check out more of this artist’s work on their profile! You can listen to Kill My Darlings anywhere you get your podcasts. Links on blog ☝️
