Blog Postings
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Creating Characters
September 6, 2014
Twice while writing Fealty to the King I found myself at my keyboard thinking,
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What is Fealty?
July 2, 2014
I'm surprised more people don't know what fealty means. To say it in two
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World Building
June 17, 2014
I never decided one day to create a world. It merely happened over many
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Historical Fantasy?
May 31, 2014
When somebody asked me about my book, I couldn't easily fit it into a broad
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The Joy of Writing
May 28, 2014
Here it is, the first posting for my book website blog. As I realize my lifelong
World Building
June 17, 2014 - I never decided one day to create a world. It merely happened over many years for most of my life.
I started with a poster board cutout village named Tinytown I received as a young boy,
but I wanted a larger city so I added my own paper buildings and made poster board roads to fit my Hotwheels and Matchbox cars.
As I wrote stories for the city I built in my bedroom, my family's house and yard became the surrounding country and the map in my book.
The deep blue and red lakes are rooms with blue flooring. Kitchen City (now Taubueth) is located in the kitchen.
The Snarshyim and Chizdekyim inlets are the driveway. The Pultanik Ocean is the lake the yard borders.
Eventually I outlined a history for my country and its empire. Fealty to the King is based on the 927-year history of that empire.
Milo Swanton