Worldbuilding | MD Presley

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I'm a fantasy author with a focus on fantasy worldbuilding and a background in screenwriting.

I also have a worldbuilding YouTube channel that's worth giving a gander.

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Sep 7, 2016

Structure pt II - Note Cards and Cork Boards

So here we are for another session of Screenplay Techniques Adapted For the Novel, and I still can’t think of a better introduction than...

Aug 31, 2016

Old 97's Drinking Game

In honor of my friend Chris' birthday today and the mariachi drinking game we used to play in our youth, I came up with a drinking game...

Aug 22, 2016

Structure, Structure, Structure

For our first actual foray into Screenplay Techniques Adapted for the Novel, we’re going to look at screenplay structure. And we’re going...

Aug 15, 2016

Holyas Toth and the Claiming of Caburn

[Compiled and translated from mid-Bancel by Malorie White] Long ago when glass was still new, King Uetas ruled the land of Che. But Uetas...

Aug 12, 2016

Method Acting, Masculinity, and Make Believe

A very interesting article by Angelica Jade Bastién today in the Atlantic on why “Hollywood Has Ruined Method Acting.” Using Jared Leto’s...

Aug 10, 2016

Arts & Crafts: Screenwriting Techniques Adapted For the Novel

As I sit down to write this, I can hear my old high school teacher (old as in I had several after her, not in that she herself was old)...

Aug 1, 2016

Waer and the Splitting of Sol's Children

Previous Stories in this cycle: Sol and His Chosen. [From the Biba Sacara, Book 1, Chapter 2.] And it came to pass that the Children of...

Jul 12, 2016

Ingios Origins of the Mudbird

[Excerpt from the memoirs of Wilhelmina Saunders] Avril 10, 492 Departed the outpost of Hayfield, spirits high as we leave the last...

Jul 1, 2016

The Two Dobra Thieves

[excerpt from Dobra Tales and Lore, collected by David Hooper] Long ago when glass was still new there were two thieves, one a Wanderer,...

Jun 16, 2016

Sol and His Chosen

[From the Biba Sacara, Book 1, Chapter 1] In the beginning there was Sol. And Sol wandered the void, the black spaces between the stars...