Science fiction and fantasy writers all have different methods for creating their worlds and people and getting them on paper, whether they set a special time of the day to write or a set number of pages to fill. I try and be at my desk ...

Several times here I've discussed how important description is when writing about your world. Most notable I've noted you can overdo it or do it wrong.

In this and the next column I'm going to explore the two extremes of worldbuilding and description - providing too much information and providing too little. I figured it's time both of these issues get their own column.



TMI:
TMI stands for "Too Much Information," and is a slang term meaning someone has said too much.
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The five most common things that keeps you from writing:

Your not in the mood.

Your sick, and your fingers are slow at the keyboard.

Your head hurts because your sick and tired to pounding at a glowing screen.

You don’t have the time, going out and having fun, is more exciting than writing.

Your simply discouraged to do so, or have writers block.

There are countless things that can keep you from writing, and the sad reality of it all is that we allow it to happen. I’m sure that half the people reading this are already writing comfortably ...

Isaac Asimov

Plot Summary:
Humanity has found the ultimate way to fix its own mistakes, make them never happen. In this book, a group of men that lives outside of time, the "Eternals", modify time. Harlan Andrews, a low ranking ...

The widespread appeal of fantasy was first sparked off by J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Though a great number of people hailed Lord of the Rings as the first true fantasy, there were also a number of fantasy authors ...