9 Weird Tips for Fantasy Writers That Actually Work

Struggling with your fantasy writing? Maybe it’s time to break some rules and try something unexpected. In this video, I’m sharing 9 weird but surprisingly effective tips that have transformed my own storytelling. These out-of-the-box techniques will help you unlock creativity, add depth to your characters and world, and keep your writing fresh.

From writing artifact histories to experimenting with unusual narrators, these tips are designed to challenge the way you think about storytelling and give you practical tools to level up your craft.

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00:00 Weird Tips
00:25 Tip 1
01:53 Tip 2
03:24 Tip 3
05:02 Tip 4
06:34 Tip 5
07:47 Tip 6
09:34 Tip 7
10:51 Tip 8
12:57 Tip 9

[larsdahl]

Tip 10 Use memorable Chapter Titles

0:29 Artifact backstory
1:54 Stop mid-scene
3:26 Character Diary Entries
5:06 Dialogue Only
6:36 Narrate in First Person
7:47 Use Real World History
9:37 Cut the Final scene
10:57 Worldbuilding through Recipes
13:00 unusual Narrator

[capcapixaba]

And look, this helped me realize that the most important object in my campaign was extremely shallow and weak, thanks

[bobdhshshxhzvs]

Tip 1: Write history of objects
Tip 2: pause in the thick of action
Tip 3: Write a dairy of inner of characters
Tip 4: take key scene write it with only dialog
Tip 5: rewrite a scene from the perspective all characters in the scene
Tip 6: ground your story
Tip 7: cut at climactic moment
Tip 8: add culture, recipes and shit.
Tip 9: different perspectives

[Andrewtr]

Worldbuilding food can be really fun for fantasy. The ingredients used for cooking might also be used in potions or spells for my magic system as well. I also really like to go deep into the worldbuilding for food. How are plants grown/farmed? What animals are raised for food? Etc. For example, there's a species of grapes grown in graveyards by necromancers because the juice from these grapes boosts their spiritual magic.

[luissosa]

Finished my first fantasy book about two weeks ago. Have been watching alot of your videos since then and tommorow and am gonna start editing and rewriting the book! Alot of your advise has been very helpful and sparked alot of creativity!and will keep it in mind!

[billyalarie]

The setting itself as narrator, incredible example of this is the Shivers skill in Disco Elysium

[Dragonmoon]

Great tips. I especially like the switching perspective ones. Both character pov and the last one through unique narrators.

[asrgelpi_author]

Sometimes, You Tube suggests videos that have nothing with my interest but I am SO GLAD it suggested this one. What a wonderful video, brimming with great ideas to re-energize our writing. Followed. ❤

[jakjak]

Such great insights again!
Eager to try the tips 😁

[hadeshades]

12:45 Reminds me of a scene i want to fit into my story;
The disguise unexpectedly worked. For the further espionage Tartarus helpfully got invited to a dinner from the very planetary leader he was spying on. No that he was slowly gaining all the information he needed from the drunk planetary leader his job would be done much quicker. When it came to the aperitif on silver twigs he should have paid more attention and didn’t see that the other people didn’t eat those to. Luckily with all around him drunk, no one noticed. The advantage of a purpose built body even though he was using it for the wrong task was not getting intoxicated. He already was nervous because the staff was touching the guests a lot and were very suggestive. It not only disgusted him but hoped that none would notice his scale as not just extravagant clothing instead of his actual skin and he attended to the dinner naked, so as to not alert the weapon scanners. A jung woman came to offer him more of the snacks and drinks. The picture he thought must have been bizarre, since he was about one meter taller then the other people. Again no one seemed to find this suspicious. It went so well, Tartarus was convinced that this was a trap. Despite his nearly 50 years experience of getting trapped, being trapped, or breaking out of traps, everything here seemed genuine, which just further unsettled him. At the very least he would be able to lay waste to everything normal humans could bring into that room. He went to his target. Face down on the table, not responsive, vital organs made no sound. Everything went to well. Now that lord Pledor regent of the Selmeky system was dead the wounded get any more information. The power vacuum would less to infighting and just flip everything on its head. Tartarus waved the staff over. Maybe this was the trap, he thought. Maybe they wanted to frame him. Option 1. stay in “disguise” and play along, or option 2. now that everything was routined, tear the room apart to end this disgusting display of excess. Both would end in diplomatic scandals if his assumption of this being the plan all along were correct.

[janeyrevanescence]

I am a cook and I LOVE writing foods in my fantasy stories.

One time, I wrote a scene where my character eats a bowl of grits (she was in NOLA) and one of the people in my critique group said "I had just eaten a big meal before reading this...and I wanted a bowl of grits" when I read that.

[SlipsunLightOfHeaven]

THESE ARE GENIUS. oh wow. I think these will help me so much. Thank you.

Lol, my characters *are* animals XD

[dchick]

As both a historian by day, and sci-fi and fantasy writer by night, history is AMAZING story fodder. Not least because real people do such bizarre things we'd never consider it. 😂

[blindzigzigon]

Hey there! I'm a newbie author and I'd like to discuss and get more help regarding those tips. Do you have a discord where we can do that with you? Thanks!

[nyarparablepsis]

Well, off I go to write the backstory of the world breaking artefact...

[KootFloris]

Some great ideas. The value was in the content, not the presentation.
My tip would be to talk more calmly, and less exited American. It was tiring to listen to.