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The Future of Fantasy Publishing on the iPad Looks Promising

by Michael Martine on March 3, 2010

in Writing Fantasy

This has got me all excited. I knew there would be some kind of blended, multi-disciplinarian environment that wasn’t a video game that could be the future of publishing. I think this is the first real inkling of it. And I think this is what I’m meant to do with my own fiction.

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Gentleman Jack & The Professor #2

February 24, 2010

Gentleman Jack looked at The Professor like he was mad (something The Professor was quite used to). Concern etched itself into Jack’s face around his permanently devilish grin. “You’re having me on,” he said.
The Professor shook his head without diverting his gaze from the strangers slowly moving through the street market out at the end [...]

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Gentleman Jack & The Professor

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Gentleman Jack and The Professor watched the seven identically-dressed strangers from the alleys which fed into the slum’s bazaar. As the strangers ogled the goods at various stalls, Jack and The Professor flitted along shaded, twisted veins of tiny streets which encircled the bazaar’s heart, walking the occasional wall and roofline like cats as they [...]

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Theme Possibilities for Dreamwalker

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As soon as the scholar-warrior idea surfaced, I knew the entire story had changed. What I didn’t know was the extent. Of course it’s more than I thought it would be, and really, how could it be any other way and still be called writing? The original protagonist in early versions of the treatment (abstract?) [...]

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Scholar-Warriors of the Crown Library

June 27, 2009
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Libraries have always been  more than mere buildings filled with books, and for this story, especially so. In Dreamwalker, the protagonist character is one of a very special group of people who are the fantasy equivalent to investigative scientists. Think Lewis & Clark, but in chainmail, with swords & sorcery. Think one part research institute, [...]

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Initial Ideas on How Magic Works in Dreamwalkers

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The dreamwalkers get their powers from the giant trees in which they live. The trees, called Dreamochs, carry within their trunks the ancestors of those living on, in, and around the tree. Each tribe or family has its one tree (when I say gigantic, I mean fuckin’ huge, like a trunk the size of a [...]

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New Thoughts about Dreamwalkers and Dreamochs

June 21, 2009

In many ways, this blog is for me more than for readers. Right now, my ideas about the story are vague. I had a different conception of the story, previously, but I scrapped it. I was trying to take two different stories and make them the same story, which is sort of like trying to [...]

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Writing Death Scenes

June 14, 2009

I’ve been reading John Crowley’s Ægypt Cycle, and no one writes a death scene better. I thought I would feel haunted forever reading Boney Rasmussen experiencing his own death in Love & Sleep, but now I’ve just read through the death of Dr. John Dee in Dæmonomania. I liked Boney’s death better (what an odd [...]

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Welcome to the Dream World

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In many ways, this blog has been a long time coming. It’s the first blog I’ve created in a while that has nothing to do with blogging and internet marketing. I’ve created this blog because I’m a writer. I always have been, but instead of writing fiction, I’ve been writing blog posts and information products. [...]

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