Tag: Portal Fantasy
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Read My First Short Story on Kindle
The king’s health dwindles, and his eldest son and heir Dagda is poised to inherit the throne. But Dagda, believing his younger brother Ardal will make a better ruler, decides he must take drastic measures for the good of the realm. To this end, the prince seeks out a being with the power to alter…
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Resources for Fantasy Writers
I’ve made a page with links to many of the resources I’ve created for other fantasy writers. Among these, you’ll find books and articles on some aspects of fantasy writing that I once struggled with, including ways you can design maps or fictional languages for your world. I hope that these resources will help you…
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Write the Sounds of Your Fictional Language
My latest article will teach you the basics of how to use the International Phonetic Alphabet. Geared towards fantasy writers who want to craft better names for their characters, this article covers the basic types of consonants and vowels, including places and manners of articulation for consonants and some of the more common vowel qualities.…
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Harry Potter Versus The Lord of the Rings
I thought it would be fun to write a series of articles comparing some very different stories and seeing which comes out on top. I’ll start with two stories that people have tried this with many times: it’s Harry Potter Versus The Lord of the Rings today! If you’ve been reading my articles for a…
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Top 10 Worst Fantasy Stories 2019
This is the original version of an article that I’ve since updated. I highly recommend you check out the up-to-date version, where I’ve added new entries and adjusted the order. It’s time to take a look at some fantasy stories: specifically the worst fantasy stories I know of. When J. R. R. Tolkien published The…
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Top 10 Reasons the Manga Is Better
The 2003 anime Fullmetal Alchemist is a pretty good show, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a great show, but neither of them could beat the manga they’re both based on. Welcome to my list of reasons the manga is better. For this list I will focus mainly on why the manga is better than the…
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Why “Fullmetal Alchemist 2003” is NOT Better Than the Manga
As far as I am aware, there have been three adaptations of the manga Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa: an anime in 2003 that had little in common with the manga, another anime in 2009 that adapted it quite faithfully, and a live-action movie in 2017 that we shall not speak of. In spite of…
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Stop Calling Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 “The Original”
I explained in my last article some of the reasons I consider the original Fullmetal Alchemist manga by Hiromu Arakawa to be superior to the 2003 anime, whose plot was utterly removed from that of the source material. The 2003 anime does have its fans, though, and that’s completely fine. However, a strange thing happened…
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“Fullmetal Alchemist 2003” Anime Review
I guess it’s time for me to talk about Fullmetal Alchemist 2003. This should be interesting. In my last article I showered a fantastic manga with praise. That manga is Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa, and in 2009 it was adapted into a sixty-four-episode anime called Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, considered by many to be the…
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“The Twelve Kingdoms” Anime Review
I recently decided that, just for the fun of seeing what would happen, I’d randomly decide on an anime I’d never heard of and watch it from start to finish. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out as well as I had hoped. I mean, I do have quite a lot to say about it, but the…