You’ve built your world. You’ve written your characters. But now you need magical creatures that feel like they belong. Not just background decoration, but living, breathing parts of your story…

You’re trying to understand how to start worldbuilding. You’ve got a few plot ideas, a heroine with a tragic backstory, maybe even a villain with a killer aesthetic.  But where does it all take place? Cue the panic…

Fantasy romance plot ideas are easy to find but surprisingly hard to make work. You start with “enemies-to-lovers in a magical war,” and next thing you know, you’re drowning in tropes, stuck halfway through Act Two, and wondering if the real…