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Fantasy: March 18, 2015 Issue [#6883]

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 This week: Spring Fever!
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2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
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About This Newsletter

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's Party!" ~Robin Williams

"Still ... in this world only winter is certain." ~George R.R. Martin


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Letter from the editor

The weather is getting warm. I might be insane that I wore short sleeves outside - no coat - and it was 44 degrees F. But it feels so much warmer than it did last week when we were bundled in our winter gear. Spring is coming! People are feeling how much they've been cooped up over the winter and the feistiness is returning.

What does that mean in your world? Your writing world, that is - are your people looking forward to winter like the Starks in Game of Thrones? Have they found the longest summer ever and tempers are barely contained with the excessive heat?

Each season and change in your world becomes important. It doesn't need to affect the characters like Game of Thrones, with winter lasting several years, but it is important to show how the environment changes the characters. On an idyllic island where the days are all the same- do your characters feel the need to move, the need to change, or are they going stagnant with the identical weather? When you throw them somewhere that shows more seasonal changes, does that push them to do more before snow falls, or by the time the ground dries from the monsoon season?

When we work inside all day at a computer, we may feel less connected to our local weather patterns. But finding a reason to work outside for your characters - or giving them reasons in a science fiction to not have these cues - can move your story in directions you may not intend. Your frozen igloos could melt in an unseasonal summer, and that could cause panic among all the people who are not accustomed to this happening. And if your southern roses freeze one night, a new kind of worry will bloom in their hearts.

Is this something that happens only once in a lifetime? Or is it completely unheard of? Or does this happen every year and they all simply forget by the time it rolls around again? How you treat the seasons, and the character's responses to each, will give the reader clues for what is coming and how to handle it.


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Besides the gentle wind, all keep silent to hear her sing.
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Be careful what you wwish for.
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A remote place.
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A dying panther is found by a woman. High school writing I've tinkered with ever since.
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Thanks for including my "Invalid Item" Open in new Window. as one of your picks in the Fantasy Newsletter.
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I totally agree with the difficulty in keeping a trilogy interesting with the second book. With one of the stories I am writing now(not on this website) I avoided that issue slightly by having 3 main characters. while told in 1st person PoV and switching between all 3 in all the stories, I focused on a different character to grow within each of the novels. (e.g book 1 is 1 character, book 2 another, etc.) while plot and character progression of the other two still went on, they each had/have their time to shine while the story still centers around characters you are familiar with.
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