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JD Stanley

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Born

in Canada

Website

https://jdstanley.com/

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Genre

Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction

Influences

Mary Stewart, J.R.R. Tolkien
Colleen McCullough, Robert A. Heinlein
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JD Stanley is an award winning historical speculative fantasy author and solitary Bardic Druid following the OBOD teaching path. JD honed voice and audio editing chops in the 80s as a radio announcer and studio engineer before embracing a lifelong guy-behind-the-curtain freelance career as a commercial and content copywriter, proofreader, ghostwriter and script doctor. Landed Entertainment director Junga Song once called JD “the greatest writer nobody’s ever heard of”.

The fictional worlds of Mary Stewart, Colleen McCullough, Tolkien, Heinlein, Cervantes and Shakespeare bent JD’s world perception into a magical place of unlikely heroes, quests, the interconnectedness of past and future and that though bad things happen to regular folks, a do ...more

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

JD Stanley I can walk around with my invisible entourage chattering away at me without interruption all day long. I love that. Hell, half the time they're smarte…moreI can walk around with my invisible entourage chattering away at me without interruption all day long. I love that. Hell, half the time they're smarter than I am, so I don't like to cut them off when they're on a roll talking out something that can only be to the benefit of my next story. And if anyone asks me who the hell I'm talking to? I just tell them I'm a writer and this magical thing happens. They give me that knowing nod and sympathetic looking-down-from-under-the-eyebrows face and chalk it up to my having one foot on the wrong side of sanity. All good!

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JD Stanley Blood Runner is turning into a rather large project. My original intention was a stand-alone and the first book holds together by itself. But I love t…moreBlood Runner is turning into a rather large project. My original intention was a stand-alone and the first book holds together by itself. But I love the main character in a mad way and that universe is so vast, the story possibilities are endless, so... I'm turning it into a series. I'm working on books 2 and 3 simultaneously to make sure I don't break the mythology I set in book 1 - gotta keep that continuity. It's a bit of a challenge since I never intended to go this route, but I'm having a blast. I'll keep you all posted on progress. :)(less)

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Story Element Tropes – Avoid Fantasy Writing Clichés 4

Story Element Tropes in Fantasy Writing

Knowing what we know now, let’s have a look at some fantasy story element tropes and talk out ways to avoid the clichéd version.

The bulk of advice about fantasy tropes tells us to avoid them, but really, we just want to avoid using them badly. Readers expect to see them in the stories they read, so let’s not disappoint them. What they don’t want to see are th

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“It was magic, the oldest magic of all when day became night, gods working in tandem, and I gave it the full benefit of my witness for the singular wonder it was.”
― J.D. Stanley, Blood Runner

tags: magic, nature, sundown

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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

tags: philosophy

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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“When you have found the shrubbery, then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest ... with a herring”
― Tall Knight of Ni (played by Michael Palin) Monty Python and the Holy Grail

tags: michael-palin, mony-python

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“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love

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