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Fantasy is everywhere in pop culture, from Harry Potter to Jon Snow's memes. The fantasy genre in literature, especially the Young Adult, constantly changes and drives new ideas, expands themes, and widens horizons. The public can't seem to get enough of it, proving that there is a fantasy market — and it's a pretty big one.
Any fantasy author is the same as another writer, aspiring or established. Our little rituals vary between every person, focusing on the plot, the characters, and how the dialogue will progress or explain mythology:
Recognize the market
"Fantasy" is a broad genre you need to dig deeper into to find your niche. Your subgenre informs your characters and setting and allows you to identify your competition and audience.
Before writing your Blockbuster
Stories in the fantasy genre are often complex and epic — all the more reason to plot it out before. You don't want to be that writer who gets to the end of the book and realizes they've forgotten to tie the knot in one part of the plot.
When it comes to writing fantasy, don't be scared of the genre. Draft whatever is in your heart, writing the story you want to. Focus on keeping your novel wholly your own and make a conscious effort not to plagiarize or copy an author's style and work. Keep an eye on the cover, titles, and tropes while familiarizing yourself with the genre —it will come of help later. After becoming well-versed with fantasy in whatever age group you plan to write in, it's time to prepare your story:
Preparing Your Story
Be prepared for hardships in the plot of a novel. They can often happen while writing fantasy. Whether you're a novice writer just dreaming of your future book or an established author who's already written some bestselling novels, always prepare your book.
Writing Your Story
The best way is to write the story you want to tell. Pen down the novel you want to create; write the story you feel is right. Next, make sure to edit, rewrite, edit, rewrite, edit again and again, then rewrite before editing one last time and going into the printing process of your novel.
Using your senses
You can be as inventive and magical as you want in your work if the writing is detailed enough to seem authentic. Use the senses to make the reader feel their presence. "When a reader inhabits your world, they will not question it when you introduce the fantastical into your story." They will take your word for it.
Self-Publishing Your Book
Although some individuals reading this may find this ending part rather dull and something to take with a grain of salt, it is one of the most critical aspects of selling novels, especially fiction, especially Young Adult Fantasy fiction.
Choosing the Right Cover
Picking a cover depends on your research in the genre. Most Fantasy book covers are art-based images of landscapes, people, crowns, and swords/shields. While designing your cover, you can push aside all of these notes and decide on whatever you want, but it is best to stay in the popular perimeters of your selected age group.
Book Cover Process
Focus your attention on two things--
The best work comes from inspiration and excitement for that piece.
Cover Design
Cover Art is the art of the book's dust jacket. It is the characters and landscapes featured in your story or maybe the manipulated photos of a smoky forest revealing itself in the silhouette of a man.
Cover Design is the title, book description, praise, and author name printed onto the cover, placed, and decided by someone else and not always yourself. If you need to decide the placement of the design and what fonts to use, then---look for someone you can rely on, a company you trust and know will not back out on you.
If you have an intricate and heavily detailed cover, go for a more simplistic font recommendation to your designer and listen to their ideas and concepts. An idea of what you want before going to a professional designer is helpful!
Trading
When you market your novel, you don't want to make people feel like you are selling them something. Studies show that one needs to see something seven times before they finally get down to buy it, and you should apply this to your marketing abilities.
Write the story you want to tell. You cannot please everyone, and the ones who matter will remain with you and support you. Implement your techniques in marketing, but keep in mind that the readers are the most crucial part. They ingest your story and characters that you've spent years writing.
Writing is hard, no matter the genre or age group, and you should always remind yourself of how powerful you are; celebrate the magic at your fingertips. Aspiring writers have a gift. We gather twenty-six letters into different words that we arrange in many ways to build sentences that structure paragraphs and create worlds that will be interpreted by every single person differently. It is magic in real life.
