To some degree, it depends on the kind of story you want to tell. Large casts can work well in epic fantasy, space opera, or techno thrillers...
Short stories as a form lend themselves to a tighter focus and faster pacing, so some ideas just don’t play well with them. For example, romance...
Let’s see… Villains in “The Skull in the Tree”: Rian Mac Colla, a carpenter whose childhood sweetheart married the village blacksmith while he...
Check your junk folders regularly, folks! Guess what I just found in mine?:)
New Edge Sword & Sorcery just recently raised $47,000 over on Backerkit. I can’t imagine all of that’s from writers. So there are definitely some...
Really feeling the sword & sorcery vibes lately, so I’m re-reading the three Del Rey collections of Robert E. Howard’s original Conan stories...
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