Choose Your Own Adventure: Books vs RPGs
Jesse Flohrs
Anyone else remember Choose Your Own Adventure books? I can remember spending hours in the school library repeatedly devouring the dozen or so CYOA books in the collection, trying every…
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Writing Fantasy Gender Stereotypes – Part Two: Writing the Opposite Gender
Faith M. Boughan
This is Part Two of a series on Writing Fantasy Gender Stereotypes. If you missed Part One you can read it here. This past July, I attended Polaris, a sci-fi…
Worldbuilding for Fantasy Writers
Leo Elijah Cristea
Worldbuilding: that old mainstay of fantasy that is as much like Marmite as…well, Marmite. Some writers live for worldbuilding, for the meticulous crafting of worlds and settings which they subsequently…
Writer’s Den: What’s in a Name?
Thomas A. Knight
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Or so wrote the great William Shakespeare. But would it really? Names are important in fiction. It’s hard to identify…
Fantasy As Mythology
Let’s take a leaf from Tolkien’s book and consider the fantasy genre as a collection of mythologies representing a variety of fictional worlds. How do writers create these worlds and…
Choosing Between Independent Publishers
Marc Davies
You spent years pouring your heart and soul into your manuscript. You polished it up to be the best that it can be, and you slogged through seemingly endless submission…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Evil Bad-Guys
Jennie Ivins
Welcome back writers and readers! I hope all of you had a lovely October and a wonderful Halloween! Some of you may not know this, but November is a very…
Conan The Enigma
Greetings Faction Readers! I write to you tonight from my new home in Ontario, observing a curious local ritual this evening by which I spend my time chasing urchins, inexplicably…
Top Scary Movies For Halloween 2011
Paul Wiseall
We here at Fantasy-Faction are getting excited about the coming Halloween celebrations and figure that there is no better way to get yourself in the mood for Halloween than with…
Get Ready For The Kitschies
Pornokitsch
This year marks the third year of The Kitschies. After two years of paddling around in the shallows, we’ve taken the plunge into deeper waters. For 2011, we’ve added more…
NY Comic Con 2011 Review
So over the weekend, this happened: Where could I have possibly gone to see Mr. T, the Queen of Hearts, and Link hanging out as a group? New York Comic…
Written In Blood: A Look At Violence In Fantasy
The biggest fantasy series right now, and easily the biggest since J.R.R Tolkien first uttered “Hobbit,” is George R.R. Martin’ s A Song of Ice and Fire. From the Wall…