Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. In this bonus episode, Jon Cronshaw and Russ Evans talk about how Dungeons and Dragons’ character alignment sheets can be used to come up with characters. Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

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Bonus: D&D character alignment sheets as a tool for authors

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Jon Cronshaw, Shane Thomas, and Ken and Sage Goudsward discuss archetypes, Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Damon Ballard can be found at:: Website: http://dcballard.com/ Blog: https://ascensionnovel.wixsite.com/scribblings FB Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/D.C.BALLARD.Author/ Connect with Stephanie Barr on all of these wonderful sites: Website: http://stephanieebarr.us/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/stephanieebarr Find Scott Tarbet’s works at: http://scotttarbet.timp.net Get great story structure advice from Bonnie Milani! Ever have our characters refuse to do what you want?  Or find you've painted your plot into a corner? You can chat your way to a solution - you just need a Story Chat. Story Chat is a 1-hour guided chat through your story. Each chat focuses on whatever element of your story that's giving you trouble: character, plot development, or structure - you set the topic. Check it out at www.bonniemilani.com Adam Joseph Stump ‘s first publication, a short dystopian story called The Wall is available here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TY1GKFL He’s also accepting humorous short stories for Scifi Lampoon at Submissions@scifilampoon.com. Find Marjorie King's work here: https://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Gambit-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07PYH2LWS/ website: www.EngineerStoryteller.com Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Crafting compelling characters

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Jon Cronshaw, Shane Thomas, and Ken and Sage Goudsward discuss archetypes, Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Shane Thomas’s series Anki Legacies, his comedic serialized metafiction Parodia, world building articles, TONS of book reviews, book club chat videos with authors, free multi-author mashup stories, and a conspiracy theory blog all live in: www.ScienceFantasyHub.com Ken Goudswardis a writer and publisher based in northern Canada, specializing in sci-fi, dark comedy, and vampires. He enjoys studying ancient mysteries and speculating on philosophical quandaries. http://dimensionfold.com/books/ Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Archetypes

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. As a preview to next week’s roundtable on archetypes, Jon Cronshaw and Russ Evans discuss using archetypes and stereotypes in your writing. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Bonus: Archetypes, Stereotypes, and Dragons!

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Damon Ballard, D. M. Rasch, Scott Tarbet. Eric Klein, Greg Kojac, and Marjorie King discuss quantum entanglement in SF. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Find Scott Tarbet’s works at: http://scotttarbet.timp.net D. M. Rasch can be found on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/deanna-m-rasch, Facebook at Itinerant Creative Content & Coaching, and on her Amazon author page. Eric Klein’s website and book link are: www.ericlklein.com  and http://amazon.com/One-Cruise-Through-Solar-System-ebook/dp/B079P6NQ6T/ Catch up with Greg Krojac here: Website: https://www.gregkrojac.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/KrojacGreg Purchase The Girl with Acrylic Eyes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C1N3L5Q Damon Ballard can be found at all these places: Website: http://dcballard.com/ Blog: https://ascensionnovel.wixsite.com/scribblings FB Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/D.C.BALLARD.Author/ FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AscensionNovel/ Find Marjorie King's work here: https://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Gambit-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07PYH2LWS/ website: www.EngineerStoryteller.com Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Quantum Entanglement in Science Fiction

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Shane Thomas reads his story, CAD Changes his Mind. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Shane Thomas’s series Anki Legacies, his comedic serialized metafiction Parodia, world building articles, TONS of book reviews, book club chat videos with authors, free multi-author mashup stories, and a conspiracy theory blog all live in: www.ScienceFantasyHub.com Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

CAD Changes his Mind by Shane Thomas

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Jon Cronshaw, Shane Thomas, Ken Goudsward, and Geoff Habinger discuss magic systems in fantasy fiction. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Shane Thomas’s series Anki Legacies, his comedic serialized metafiction Parodia, world building articles, TONS of book reviews, book club chat videos with authors, free multi-author mashup stories, and a conspiracy theory blog all live in: www.ScienceFantasyHub.com Reach out to Geoff Habingerhere: Amazon author link: www.amazon.com/Geoff-Habiger/e/B002BMERYK Goodreads author link: www.goodreads.com/author/show/1007658.Geoff_Habiger Twitter: https://twitter.com/TangentGeoff Facebook: www.facebook.com/HabigerKisseeAuthors/ Other: www.habigerkissee.com/ Ken Goudswardis a writer and publisher based in northern Canada, specializing in sci-fi, dark comedy, and vampires. He enjoys studying ancient mysteries and speculating on philosophical quandaries. http://dimensionfold.com/books/ Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Magic systems in fantasy fiction

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Caitlin Demaris McKenna reads an except from Alliance of Exiles. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Alliance of Exiles by Caitlin Demaris McKenna, excerpt

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Jon Cronshaw talks to Clare Sager about the craft of writing epic stories. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Find out more about Clare Sager at claresager.com Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Bonus: Epic storytelling

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. In this week’s episode, we are joined by Evan Gow to talk about StoryOrigin and building an author platfrom Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ StoryOrigin can be found at https://storyoriginapp.com. Shane Thomas’s series Anki Legacies, his comedic serialized metafiction Parodia, world building articles, TONS of book reviews, book club chat videos with authors, free multi-author mashup stories, and a conspiracy theory blog all live in: www.ScienceFantasyHub.com Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Building an author platform with StoryOrigin

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Jon Cronshaw, Damon Ballard, Eric Klein, and Stephanie Barr discuss near-future worldbuiling in science fiction. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/

Near-future worldbuilding

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. In this bonus episode from Stop Booking Around, Jon Cronshaw talks to Russ Evans about fantasy worldbuilding. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Bonus: Worldbuilding and lore

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Shane Thomas and Damon Ballard are joined by Geoff Habinger to discuss epic worldbuilding in fantasy and science fiction. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Reach out to Geoff Habinger here: Amazon author link: www.amazon.com/Geoff-Habiger/e/B002BMERYK Goodreads author link: www.goodreads.com/author/show/1007658.Geoff_Habiger Twitter: https://twitter.com/TangentGeoff Facebook: www.facebook.com/HabigerKisseeAuthors/ Other: www.habigerkissee.com/ Damon Ballard can be found at all these places: Website: http://dcballard.com/ Blog: https://ascensionnovel.wixsite.com/scribblings FB Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/D.C.BALLARD.Author/ FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AscensionNovel/ Amazon ebook: http://mybook.to/ChaosFountain Amazon Print: http://mybook.to/ChaosFountainPrnt Barnes&Nobel ebook: http://bit.ly/CF_BandN Kobo ebook: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/chaos-fountain Smashwords ebook: http://bit.ly/CF_Smash Shane Thomas’s series Anki Legacies, his comedic serialized metafiction Parodia, world building articles, TONS of book reviews, book club chat videos with authors, free multi-author mashup stories, and a conspiracy theory blog all live in: www.ScienceFantasyHub.com Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at www.joncronshaw.libsyn.com. Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Epic Worldbuilding in fantasy and sci-fi

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Roundtable podcast, the show for fans of all things science fiction and fantasy. Shane Thomas reads his story, Tongue Biter. Subscribe today and please take a moment to share this episode and leave a review. Follow us on Twitter @SFRTpodcast. Scifi Roundtable, the writer’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scifiroundtable/ Reading the Roundtable of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the reader’s group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330870181072264/ Shane Thomas’s series Anki Legacies, his comedic serialized metafiction Parodia, world building articles, TONS of book reviews, book club chat videos with authors, free multi-author mashup stories, and a conspiracy theory blog all live in: www.ScienceFantasyHub.com Edited by Jon Cronshaw Jon Cronshaw is the author of the Wasteland series, Blind Gambit, and The Ravenglass Chronicles. Jon's Author Diary podcast is at anchor.fm/joncronshaw Website: joncronshaw.com. His non-fiction books The Stoic Writer and Podcasting for Authors are out now on Kindle and Paperback.

Tongue Biter by Shane Thomas

 Annabel Thor That sounds brilliant. How old is he-primary or secondary? There are lots of interesting free websites for home educators. The map idea sounds fab. You could also work on coordinates and tracing a route on a map with a piece of string etc. Also, make a papier mache large map with different terrains looking a little like the sort of maps that they had in operation control rooms during the war? There are some fabulous map games too- there are printables online of flags - Sparklebox has quite a few print outs for younger children. If you look on https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources some are free. I am an ex-tutor, so know quite a lot about online resources. It can be cool to buy a URL from Namecheap and launch a free website from Weebly or Wix and list lots of resources on it to click into easily, having a page for each topic. With a subscription to Weebly, it is possible to launch videos and You Tube clips online too - this can be great for learning. Glogster is cool as well- this is free up to a point and works like an online story board. Brainpop is a real favourite- it is via subscription but it is so interesting and has small tutorials and then questions after. So much to learn- the list is endless... Good luck!

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