Thoughts on the process of writing epic fantasy and worldbuilding.
I’ve dealt with a lot of narcissists my whole life. An observation I made over the years is how the Filipino culture, and the difficulty of life back home and abroad for the common Filipino, has made narcissism almost a cultural trait. In my school days in Manila, “talent contests” were pretty common–kids who won …
I sometimes can’t believe I’ve been on this grind for at least six years. Six years ever since I started taking my self-publishing journey seriously. Six years ever since I burned all the ships, so to speak, and said goodbye to my engineering career so I could focus on writing full-time, with no guarantees that …
Five years ago, I started writing this little book where I wanted to deconstruct the idea of a “strong female character” in epic fantasy. Down the rabbit hole I went. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was going to end up encountering misogynistic responses to the work, in addition to having to …
We’ve heard all the jokes about the decade that is 2020 and 2021 combined, so I’m not even going to start. But on a personal level, damn, these last two years. The world fell apart while I was going through my tradpub debut launch (a whole series launch), and if I had any expectations about …
Read more “If You Can’t Walk, Crawl – 2020 and 2021 in Retrospect”
The explosion of breadth and stakes between The Wolf of Oren-yaro and The Ikessar Falcon has been commented on for years, and I wanted to talk about some more why this difference exists, why the tone is somewhat different for both epic fantasy books. (I also wrote a post before on why this series should …
Read more “Epic Fantasy Ramblings: The Invisible Nature of Power and Privilege”
