Tales from the Inn – Fantasy Blog

My Five Favorite Themes   Recently, I experimented with an AI tool that asked me to enter my three favorite movies. The point of the exercise is to help someone find “the theme of their life.” I assume the theory is by looking at your favorite movies, it reveals...

King Arthur Changed the World   Ideas and Ideals A well-known quote from C. S. Lewis is “Since it is likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” The fact that I am quoting it here supports the...

“Epic Fantasy Adventure with Timeless Values” Part 2 Let’s continue our discussion on branding and writing styles. We focused in on the phrase found on the top of my main webpage: “Epic Fantasy Adventure with Timeless Values” Epic Fantasy Adventure… Last time, we...

  Dragons, Elves and Heroes Faerie is a Perilous Land “I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold. And overbold I may be...

    Real World Magic     Musings on Magic Drifting around on social media recently, I came across some musings on magic (and writing about magic) by Steven Erickson, the bestselling author of the epic fantasy series, The Malazan Book of the Fallen....