The purpose of this article is to raise the issue of how and why fantasy books are labeled as young adult and others not. The answers to these questions certainly cannot be given here, but the intent is rather to bring them up.
With the advent of the ...

The five things that creates a good scene

Narrative
Making sure it’s necessary
Description of events and surroundings
Believable dialogue
An outcome that empowers and moves the story
The scene is the most vital part of a story. It is the vein in which the life of the story flows. If one scene is cut, or disrupted in a way that dulls the reader, then all life is drained away. There is no imagination. This article of Lucid Writing Advice should at least give you a hint to creating a good scene.

NARRATIVE

If the scene is the vein, then the narrative is the blood of the manuscript. The creation of good narrative will make any story a good read. Fantasy writers fall into a common trap by given pages upon pages of inactive narrative as the opener of their manuscript, ...

In One of Tolkien’s widely recognized essays "On fairy stories" he emphasized that the happy ending, the "eucatastrophe", is an essential element of Fantasy, necessary for it to fulfill its major functions: Recovery, Escape, Consolation. It is ironic ...

Last we looked at why it's worth creating a solid world for your original work. This time, we're going to look at what you'll need to "know" about your setting, and how one small question can define an entire plot. ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

Plot Summary:

In the far future a new Utopian society has risen up. With the federation of Eukemen came peace for all the planets that joined them. The only problem is that not all planets have joined or even know of the Eukemen. ...