Nate Smith
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World Building With Words Competition Winner!!
For those of you who don’t know The World Builders Guild ran it’s first competition over the past few months. The aim of the competition was to write a location/environment article based upon one of…
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Competition: World Building With Words
The World Builders Guild has launched it’s first competition and I’m inviting you to enter. The aim of this competition is to encourage the world builders out there to collaborate with artists from The WBGuild…
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How To Design A Town The Fantastic Maps Way
Jonathan Roberts of Fantastic Maps has published a fantastic quick tutorial that teaches you how to design a town. I’ve been a fan of Jonathan’s work for a long time especially since he was commissioned…
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X-Men Artist Kickstart’s A Creative Commons World Building Project
Steven Sanders has drawn a number of comics for Marvel and Image; from Wolverine and The X-Men to Deadpool and Five Fists Of Science. He has over a decade of professional experience in the illustration…
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Mass Effect: Bending Your Own Rule Is Ok – BUT DON’T BREAK IT!
The recent magic articles on Sanderson’s First and Second law has brought up a number of interesting discussions about internal-consistency and learning how to bend the rules we have created as writers without losing the…
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Sanderson’s Second Law Of Magic – The Power Of Limitations.
This article follows on from the article “Have You Mastered The First Law Of Magic?” Sanderson’s Second Law Of Magic “Limitations > Powers” Brandon Sanderson, 2011 Essentially this law is saying that adding limitations to…