Throwback Tuesday-slash-PSA: Limyaael Rants

[torylltales]

I mentioned these in a recent comment, so I thought I'd make a proper post in case anyone hadn't heard of this and didn't see my comment.

Limyaael was a Livejournal (and other early social media) legend who posted more than 400 articles and rants about fantasy worldbuilding and writing. Their posts were hugely influential in my formative worldbuilding and writing days, so if you haven't seen them before I highly recommend you explore some or all of their articles.

The best link is through the Internet Archive, because the website seems to be down right now.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20190430024202/https://curiosityquills.com/limyaael/

 

Aside from all of them, I recommend you start with these ones:

 

Cliched Fantasy
Creating Breathing Characters
Writing Flawed Characters
Authorial Distance From The Narrative
On Consequences
Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation: parts 1, 2, and 3.
Telepathic Companions
Avoiding Infodumps
Spicing Up Conversation Scenes
Plotting A Fantasy Novel: Parts 1 and 2
Good Descriptive Prose
Balancing Dialogue, Description, and Action
Creating A Sense of Place
Mentors
 

And then all the rest of them in whatever order you wish.