Tag Archives: A Song of Ice and Fire

5 Strategies for Integrating Fictional Legends into Your Fictional World

Posted on August 24, 2012 by L.B. Gale

One of the most fun aspects about building a fantasy world is creating legends, fables, and fairy tales for your imaginary culture.  Doing so – through folk songs or poetry or allusions via character conversations – helps make a fictional … Continue reading →

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What’s the Beating Heart that Makes “Game of Thrones” so Compelling? Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things.

Posted on March 30, 2012 by L.B. Gale

Many viewers and readers are taken with the dark and unforgiving landscape of George R. R. Martin’s narrative world.  Anyone can die.  The honest and noble and true will not always triumph.  Pain, bloodshed, and betrayal are everywhere.  Winter is … Continue reading →

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Examples of Bad Writing: Repeated Similes

Posted on January 29, 2012 by L.B. Gale

I was listening to a bit of A Storm of Swords on the way to work Friday and heard a simile that struck me as classic George R.R. Martin:  “Brienne was always bound beside him.  She lay there in her … Continue reading →

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New Song of Ice and Fire Excerpt

Posted on December 30, 2011 by L.B. Gale

If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s George R. R. Martin’s Christmas gift to you: an unexpected excerpt from The Winds of Winter. It’s exciting and all, but I can’t shake my firm belief that he’s just not that good … Continue reading →

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