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Chargement... Putting the Fact in Fantasy: Expert Advice to Bring Authenticity to Your Fantasy Writingpar Dan Koboldt (Directeur de publication)
![]() Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. ![]() Koboldt, Dan, editor. Putting the Fact in Fantasy: Expert Advice to Bring Authenticity to Your Fantasy Writing. Foreword by Scott Lynch. Writer’s Digest Books, 2022. Putting the Fact in Fantasy is a collection of short pieces by writers with knowledge in areas related to the sort of world-building encountered by most fantasy writers. There are articles on history, with an emphasis on life and society in the Middle Ages. A section on archeology contains a fascinating piece on linguistics and translation. Translating an ancient language is not as easy as it looks in the movies. There are pieces on ecology and one on warfare and weapons that will give you respect for the humble knife as a weapon. An article on horsemanship by Amy Perkins-McKenna, also tells fantasy novelists not to get their images of horses from the movies, because movies often use the wrong types of horses for the jobs at hand. Horse gender matters, she says, because stallions are much harder to control than mares and geldings. The mantra among riders is “tell a gelding, ask a mare, and negotiate with a stallion.” I do not intend to write a fantasy epic, but the advice offered by Koboldt and company will make me a more knowledgeable reader. 4 stars. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Whether it's correctly naming the parts of a horse, knowing how lords and ladies address one another, or building a realistic fantasy army, getting the details right takes fantasy writing to the next level. Featuring some of the most popular articles from Dan Koboldt's Fact in Fantasy blog as well as several never-before-seen essays, this book gives aspiring and established fantasy writers alike an essential foundation to the fascinating history and cultures of our own world, which serve as a jumping-off point for more inspired and convincing fantasy" -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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