When writing fantasy fiction, seek visual references that evoke the locations in your world.

For the desert setting in my latest story, I've leaned heavily into the Dusty Dunes from Earthbound.

Imagery becomes language...

... and language becomes imagery...

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An appropriate response, given the situation.

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Fun writing exercise:

Take an emotion your character is feeling and analogize it to a scene.

Instead of flatly reporting on their feelings, describe your scene for your readers.

Give us movement.

And a sense of place.

And don’t fear sounding weird.

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“He was a wraith. A drifter. A destroyer…”

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“His car was kaputt. Vultures had already begun to circle. It was fifty miles to the nearest town, and he was three hours behind schedule. Things weren’t going well.”

(And we haven’t even gotten to the talking squid…)

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"As if today couldn't get any worse..."

Tales of Orion are what would happen if the creators of Earthbound took acid and binge watched classic episodes of Aeon Flux.

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