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For fantasy, I find that there's no better than movie and game soundtracks. Anything more specific than that preoccupies my mind and gets me to interact with the music, more so since I'm a singer, rather than just float along with it. Jeremy Soul is genius in that regard. World of Warcraft...

I think fantasy will thrive, albeit in different forms and even mediums, such as games. Besides, I think the stressful fashion of our lives will promote more and more escapism over time and I think fantasy is perfect dor that.

Abaolutely the professor's Lord of the Rings. I've read other interesting numbers, but none have sucked me in and obsessed as much as that. Martin came close with Game, but then it slowly faded.

Recently, I've been reading some manga and Realized how much easier they have it with storytelling. Unlike a novel, there is far less demand for stylistic perfection, incredibly deep, multi faceted characters... It seems like a more relaxed medium, with far less elitism going on, while telling a...

The other day I realized I'm awful at actually imagining the places when writing (or reading about). No matter how many words I use, it seems to be one thing to say this is an imaginary city and another to give it true dimension. When world building, I have problems creating brand new places...

In case you have an iPad or iPhone, I found Trunk Notes to be a fabulous application. It works like a wiki, with bracket linking and very simple, text centric, distraction free formatting that lets you build complex documents despite its relative simplicity. Check it out on the App Store, it's...