Once Upon a Time Zone: A Bookish Podcast

Creating Our PERFECT Fantasy Books 📚 | Choose Your Own Adventure [EP#17]

Once Upon a Time Zone: A Bookish Podcast

Show Notes

Let's create our ULTIMATE Fantasy stories! This episode just confirmed we should NOT be authors, but we had fun doing it anyways! 😂

The Will of the Many Bonus Chapter: https://d1hbl61hovme3a.cloudfront.net/assets_us/interlude-confessiones-ad-mortuos.pdf?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaf2xFmz8pt_wyrplgvh8jxL2qxgze2T8JM4GhiB7U-uwIzLLUvHOhzYK4hznw_aem_eZlx6ZYwt7SnX_OsLup1ng

Books Discussed: The Astonishing Color of After - Emily XR Pan The Will of the Many - James Islington

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(00:00) intro & current reads (13:00) a jacks and evangeline novella! (14:35) rf kuang's next novel (taipei story) (16:43) our fantasy survival skills (18:47) our subgenres (21:21) who is writing our fantasy? (26:08) who is the protagonist (28:12) the magic system (34:16) world building (39:14) magical creatures (43:30) our plot tropes (48:57) romance subplots (53:39) putting it all together... our final plots

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