Tag: character development

Writing Lessons: Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive

On By Madelynn OrionIn Book Reviews, Characters, Fantasy, The Writing Life, World-building

Leading up to the release of Wind and Truth, I reread Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive (abbreviated to “Stormlight” throughout).Along the way of revisiting one of my favorite fantasy series, I made some mental notes on how to apply Sanderson’s mastery of fantasy world-building into my own tales and what my fellow fantasy writers might …

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Thor’s Failed Marvel Cinematic Universe Character Arc

On By Madelynn OrionIn Characters, Film Reviews, Science Fiction

I’ve expressed in passing that the post-Endgame MCU films have been misses or mediocre for me. While there’s still some fun in going to see the latest Marvel movie, I’ve been less-than-impressed with multiple of the recent MCU films. The Spider-man movies after Endgame were great, I really liked Shang-Chi, and I’d agree that Guardians …

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