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Sean "I Will Die On This" Hill

scrhill@indieauthors.social

<p>Irish dark fantasy writer and wizard enjoyer, I publish a weekly microfiction newsletter called Shadows &amp; Sorcery on Substack.</p>

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    At long last, my messy documentary article on developing a magic system/philosophy for a new fantasy setting is available for all to read. See how the sorcerous sausage is made. https://shadowsandsorcery.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/designing-a-magic-system/ #Fantasy #WorldBuilding

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    @wendypalmer @Logophilius Aye that&amp;#39;s exactly how it seems to me!

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    I have a short thread on the problems I&amp;#39;ve observed in getting people to engage with flash fiction. If stuff I see on here is an indication of what audiences are actually like, then the lack of extensive characterization is a genuine barrier to a readership primarily concerned with character interaction and development. 1/4 #flashfiction #MicroFiction #Writing

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    Here&amp;#39;s a take that will get me killed: I personally believe there&amp;#39;s a certain homogenization of storytelling, where we say a story must have this and that...but we&amp;#39;re talking about long form storytelling. This leads to people sometimes missing the focus of short fiction. Saying a short story doesn&amp;#39;t have good characters is a little silly. Can it have them? Yes. Does it NEED them? No. It&amp;#39;s about focus. Try to understand the intent behind a short work befor...

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    Hey uh so I&amp;#39;ve been having trouble trying to keep up and post here, but I wanted to say that on this day three years ago, the first edition (issue 0) of my dark fantasy flash fiction publication Shadows &amp;amp; Sorcery was released I&amp;#39;ve written one edition (that&amp;#39;s 3-5 stories) nearly every week for three years straight (took a week off once), and one serial chapter a month, and I&amp;#39;m just really proud of that

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    I just passed 600 stories for my Shadows &amp;amp; Sorcery dark fantasy flash fiction publication I&amp;#39;ve really enjoyed writing each of these 420k (likely much more) words and I&amp;#39;d love for some folks to check it out and have fun with something a little less traditional but still very accessible, weird, cool, dark, and awesome🙏 https://shadowsandsorcery.substack.com #MicroFiction #darkfantasy #Fantasy #WorldBuilding

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    There was an art challenge on twitter throughout September called &amp;quot;Swordtember&amp;quot; that I took part in Here&amp;#39;s my four favourite swords I did! Each had their own snippets of lore, which you can find in the alt text...