In this episode of Storyline Sessions, author and podcast host Michael Vadney talks about his debut nobledark fantasy novel Crownfall, writing multiple POVs, politics in fantasy, magic systems, his writing method and much more.<\/p>\n
Find Michael here – https:\/\/michaelvadney.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n Listen to Storyline Sessions on other streaming platforms – https:\/\/taplink.cc\/storyline.sessions<\/a><\/p>\n Support Storyline Sessions on Ko-Fi – Ko-fi.com\/storylinesessions<\/a> <\/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>\n Timestamps:<\/p>\n 00:00 – Start<\/p>\n 00:51 – Conversation start<\/p>\n 01:04 – What is nobledark – talking about genre<\/p>\n 05:26 – Political fantasy<\/p>\n 09:02 – Scope, perspective and single location stories<\/p>\n 10:55 – Plotting stories and authors as D&D DMs<\/p>\n 15:12 – Setting writing goals for yourself<\/p>\n 17:54 – Staying confident and motivated<\/p>\n 19:13 – Initial vision for Crownfall vs the final draft<\/p>\n 22:10 – A system for writing multiple POVs<\/p>\n 24:45 – Beta readers, writing groups and feedback<\/p>\n 30:50 – Genre homework<\/p>\n 34:14 – Project Arcanist<\/p>\n 35:43 – Standalone vs series<\/p>\n 38:31 – Writing to market<\/p>\n 41:41 – How do you know when you’re done?<\/p>\n 45:39 – Key takeaways after writing the debut<\/p>\n 47:53 – Podcasting and importance of community<\/p>\n 54:35 – Dealing with reading goals<\/p>\n 58:02 – What does a magical engineer do?<\/p>\n 01:02:05 – Two important things for a good magic system<\/p>\n 01:06:05 – Influences that aren’t Sanderson, spice and old school fantasy<\/p>\n 01:12:03 – Getting the right cover art<\/p>\n 01:16:11 – Advice for other debut authors<\/p>\n 01:17:54 – Outro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Storyline Sessions, author and podcast host Michael Vadney talks about his debut nobledark fantasy novel Crownfall, writing multiple POVs, politics in fantasy, magic systems, his writing method and much more. Find Michael here – https:\/\/michaelvadney.com\/ Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/ Listen to Storyline Sessions on other streaming platforms…<\/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-669439","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\/669439","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=669439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669439\/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=669439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}