This novel (and animated film) by Peter S. Beagle was written in 1968, and remains one of my favorite fantasy works, in part for its lyrical fairy tale language and for its piercingly honest and often sad journey into loneliness, aging, and regret. Are you excited to learn more? What’s it about? A unicorn living […]
Join us tonight on Twitch at 9pm EST to vote on our ongoing crowd-guided mythic fantasy adventure-writing project. Tonight, our hero and his companions have taken shelter in the haunted tower of a long-dead sorcerer-king, where they discover a shocking truth! Will they investigate further? Will they escape and seek help? More importantly, what unique location inside […]
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Tonight on Twitch: Into the ruins
Join us tonight on Twitch at 9pm EST to vote on our ongoing crowd-guided mythic fantasy adventure-writing project. Tonight, our hero has just met his first friend in the underworld and needs to decide where to go, and what to do. You’ll also need to decide how he travels, and what goes wrong. And just for fun, […]
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New Adventure: Acid Metal Howl
Hi everyone! This week I published a new D&D (5e) adventure module titled Dungeon Age: Acid Metal Howl. In the deep desert lies the dead city of Yumar, the source of countless bizarre rumors. Was it destroyed by a demonic metal sphere? Did it sink into a pit of acid? Were its people transformed into […]
Join us tonight on Twitch at 9pm EST to vote on our mythic fantasy adventure. To kick things off, you’ll be choosing the name of our mythic hero that we designed last week. Then I’ll be performing a dramatic reading of a narrative outline of where our hero came from and what he was doing on the […]
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Tonight on Twitch: Building a hero!
Join us tonight on Twitch at 9pm EST to help design a Mythic Hero. We’ll be talking about everything that goes into creating a protagonist and the world around them: parents, education, professional, station in life, friends, and more. And then you’ll be voting (many times!) to choose our hero’s gender, age, link to the […]
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Review: The Black Company by Glen Cook
This novel by Glen Cook was written in 1984, and from what I hear it was an influential fantasy book in that era, particularly as it uniquely combined a cast of low-fantasy anti-hero mercenaries with a high-fantasy world of magic and apocalypses. I don’t recall any of that because I was 5 at the time, […]
*** SPOILERS *** I don’t know why I put “spoilers” up there. I guess in case you don’t want to know what Twitch commanded me to write for them last night. In which case, I’m not totally sure why you’re here. I mean, the title is pretty self-explanatory. Anyway, here’s the episode: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/443821254 And here’s […]
Tonight at 9pm EST, join me on Twitch where we will be talking about the process of writing a book, and you’ll be telling me what to put in my new fantasy story! Here’s the link: https://www.twitch.tv/josephrobertlewis Each week we’ll talk about topics like world-building, character design, arcs, plots, and more. I’ll be raising the […]
This novel (short novel? novella?) by Lord Dunsany was written in 1924, and seems to have wandered in and out of the public eye over the last century. It’s a very classical (French-ish to me, for some reason) fantasy story that feels a bit like a fairy tale in the vein of the Arthurian cycle. […]