How to Write a Good Fantasy Book

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Laura Turner and today I am going to talk to you about how to write a good fantasy book. The difference between writing a good fantasy book and just writing a fantasy book in general is the specificity that you are going to be using in your book. In all the research that you are going to be doing yourself, and all the notes you're going to be taking yourself about your fantasy. So first decide on the world you're going to set your fantasy in. Decide on all the specifics of that world and even go so far as to actually making documents for yourself containing all these specific ideas that you have for the world then actually include them in your novel. So the more specific you get with everything the better your novel is going to become. Finally, include as many exciting and different characters and animals and things in your world as you can. Broadening the scope of your fantasy book can help you as far as are you going to write a back story to your story as a Token did on his Lord of the Rings trilogy. Or even have episodes that are going to come in and out in that fashion that is actually creating a reality to that world. Are the characters and the flora and the fawn of the animals going to have a place in that world as well. The characters, are they going to have a back story to their story. So think about actually creating something deep that goes down as far as time wise but also as far as the levels on which you have thought about it. Finally, really try to do something that no one has done before. To write a good fantasy book is also going to require reading other good fantasy books."