In this episode of Storyline Sessions, the author of dark fantasy epic Gunmetal Gods and progression sci-fantasy Lightblade Zamil Akhtar shares his experience with the Kickstarter success, talks about his writing process, influences, gives some horror movie recommendations and many more interesting subjects.<\/p>\n
Zamil’s website – https:\/\/zamilakhtar.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Zamil’s Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zamilakhtarauthor\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Timestamps:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 00:00 – Start<\/p>\n 00:35 – Conversation start<\/p>\n 00:42 – Kickstarter success<\/p>\n 05:23 – Growing as an author<\/p>\n 07:12 – Building a community<\/p>\n 08:42 – Different influences on Gunmetal Gods and its setting<\/p>\n 11:53 – Zamil’s prose and descriptions in fantasy<\/p>\n 14:31 – Writing process<\/p>\n 17:51 – Historical fiction<\/p>\n 19:26 – Worldbuilding and gaming influences on Lightblade<\/p>\n 20:58 – Creating magic systems<\/p>\n 23:16 – RPGs<\/p>\n 24:08 – Grimdark and horror<\/p>\n 26:49 – Lovecraft, Ito and writing a horror novel<\/p>\n 28:55 – What Zamil likes in modern fantasy<\/p>\n 30:25 – Using tropes vs experimenting<\/p>\n 33:14 – Fantasy adaptations<\/p>\n 35:16 – Potential Gunmetal Gods adaptation<\/p>\n 36:34 – Changing genres and using pen names<\/p>\n 38:49 – How he came up with Lightblade<\/p>\n 40:32 – Difference between writing Gunmetal Gods and Lightblade<\/p>\n 41:40 – Future plans for Lightblade<\/p>\n 43:05 – Endpoint for Gunmetal Gods<\/p>\n 45:26 – Editing process<\/p>\n 48:24 – Traditional publishing vs indie publishing <\/p>\n 50:24 – Audience supporting authors directly<\/p>\n 54:15 – Reviews<\/p>\n 57:18 – Horror movies<\/p>\n 58:00 – Hidden gems recommendations<\/p>\n 01:01:20 – Future plans<\/p>\n 01:02:42<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Riverside.fm<\/a> affiliate link (I receive a recurring commission with no additional cost to you): https:\/\/www.riverside.fm\/?via=marko<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Storyline Sessions, the author of dark fantasy epic Gunmetal Gods and progression sci-fantasy Lightblade Zamil Akhtar shares his experience with the Kickstarter success, talks about his writing process, influences, gives some horror movie recommendations and many more interesting subjects. Zamil’s website – https:\/\/zamilakhtar.com\/ Zamil’s Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zamilakhtarauthor\/ Timestamps: 00:00 – Start…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storyline-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}