If you're going to use Gods or NPCs in your role play, you may want to contact them prior to sitting down and writing. You're using characters that officially belong to someone else. Plus, if you're role playing the part and the NPC says, "I don't know you," you may have a problem.
Brain storm before you write. I always tell my students, "Brain storming is the process of creating worlds. Its like the christian belief of the Seven Day miracle. If you want to make a world, make sure you know it inside and out, or else you may forget the name of a place where a certain event takes place and name it something else." That's on my syllabus whenever I'm asked to TA for a LIT class.
Also, fantasy is a hard genre to write. In my opinion, its one of the hardest genres to write because authentic names, places, people, and events are taking place. Recent arrivals of "modern fantasy" have made it easier to write in the fantasy genre, but you still have the dilemma of creating events that have to be particular to the given atmosphere, dialogue, plot, et cetera.
And a last piece of advice: don't forget your major literature concepts.
Plot (What happens in the story and why? Explain everything you can, but don't be so detailed that you lose your reader.)
Atmosphere and Description (I teach that these go hand in hand. Develop your plot first and then go on to atmosphere and description. Describe how the day feels. Saying, "It was a cold day" is being literal. Why was it cold? How was it cold? Was it cold to just the character or was it truly cold because of weather? In other words, "How" "Why" "When" "What" "Where" "Which" and "Define" are the core ideas behind description and atmosphere)
Dialogue (Be it mental or audible, dialogue is very important unless its a single character scene that lasts less than three or four pages. Try to brain storm how the character would respond.)
Characterization (This is where you finally get into the flesh and bone of your character. What are their hopes? Do they have any biases? What's their worst fears? Do they have hopes they want to attain? Have any tragedies taken place to explain a character's behavior? These are some good questions to ask yourself when you're creating your character/s)
*Note: Characterization should always come before dialogue.
I tell my students to first make the protagist or the main character of the story. Know them inside and out. But if there is an existing world, start learning the world before you make the character. In other words, research, research, research.
Credibility (How credible is the character? Try to think of how they would interact with the given people and the world. Credibility isn't a core concept but its one I teach to my students when they want to make a character believable. The more credibility {or believable traits a character has} the more concrete the character appears.)
These are just a few. I hope it helps.
Brain storm before you write. I always tell my students, "Brain storming is the process of creating worlds. Its like the christian belief of the Seven Day miracle. If you want to make a world, make sure you know it inside and out, or else you may forget the name of a place where a certain event takes place and name it something else." That's on my syllabus whenever I'm asked to TA for a LIT class.
Also, fantasy is a hard genre to write. In my opinion, its one of the hardest genres to write because authentic names, places, people, and events are taking place. Recent arrivals of "modern fantasy" have made it easier to write in the fantasy genre, but you still have the dilemma of creating events that have to be particular to the given atmosphere, dialogue, plot, et cetera.
And a last piece of advice: don't forget your major literature concepts.
Plot (What happens in the story and why? Explain everything you can, but don't be so detailed that you lose your reader.)
Atmosphere and Description (I teach that these go hand in hand. Develop your plot first and then go on to atmosphere and description. Describe how the day feels. Saying, "It was a cold day" is being literal. Why was it cold? How was it cold? Was it cold to just the character or was it truly cold because of weather? In other words, "How" "Why" "When" "What" "Where" "Which" and "Define" are the core ideas behind description and atmosphere)
Dialogue (Be it mental or audible, dialogue is very important unless its a single character scene that lasts less than three or four pages. Try to brain storm how the character would respond.)
Characterization (This is where you finally get into the flesh and bone of your character. What are their hopes? Do they have any biases? What's their worst fears? Do they have hopes they want to attain? Have any tragedies taken place to explain a character's behavior? These are some good questions to ask yourself when you're creating your character/s)
*Note: Characterization should always come before dialogue.
I tell my students to first make the protagist or the main character of the story. Know them inside and out. But if there is an existing world, start learning the world before you make the character. In other words, research, research, research.
Credibility (How credible is the character? Try to think of how they would interact with the given people and the world. Credibility isn't a core concept but its one I teach to my students when they want to make a character believable. The more credibility {or believable traits a character has} the more concrete the character appears.)
These are just a few. I hope it helps.
