“Would I be more excited about this book if I…”

As new writers we want to do our best but because we haven’t yet internalized all the principles, we often want to create checklists of rules. We want to list out all the the aspects of a golden story and make sure we include them.  And these lists can help. Everything I’ve learned about building

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Stonefather by Orson Scott Card

“When Runnel was born, he was given a water name even though there had never been a wetwizard in the family. In the old days such names were given only to those babies as would be sacrificed to Yeggut, the water god. Later, such names were given to those whould would live to serve as

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Map for Servant of a Dark God by Isaac Stewart

Check it out.  “The Clan Lands of Whitecliff” by Isaac Stewart. I think he’s done a great job.  Here’s the full PDF. BTW, this is not the map that will appear in the book. That one’s being done by another artist selected by Tor. This is one I commissioned when I got my book contract.

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