Fiction Craft Blog

One big decision to make when drafting your queer fiction novel is whether to set it in a queernorm or cisnorm world, and I recommend you make this decision with intention, as each option has both advantages and drawbacks. What is a cisnorm setting or world? The regular world we live in is, by and large, a cisnorm world. What this means is that heteronormative sexuality and binary gender identity are viewed as “normal” and many people or “society” attach a stigma to nonconfor

Long before G.R.R. Martin’s take on dragons fanned the flames of controversy (Are they wyverns? Are they dragons? Do we need to know?), the inner workings of these fire-breathing creatures were already sparking flaming-hot debates. Dragons are a staple of fantasy, but they also represent the genre’s rather finicky nature: they cannot be too over the top, as then the audience will stop suspending their disbelief. But equally, they cannot be too grounded either, because their v