Talecue Editorial Team 
I’d sit down to build my fantasy world. I’d either stare at a blank page with literally zero ideas, or I had 17 notebooks full of scattered thoughts about dragons, magic systems, and cool weapons that don’t connect to anything. If you went through the same, you know for sure that both problems are torture. … Read more
You’ve seen many worldbuilding templates. The most popular ones are Reedsy’s 130 questions and World Anvil’s comprehensive system with 300 questions. These lists promise to help you build incredible worlds, but they deliver something else entirely: overwhelm and stupefaction. You sit there wondering which worldbuilding questions actually matter, which ones you can skip, and whether … Read more
You’ve spent three months building your fantasy world. You have detailed notes on your magic system, a hand-drawn map of three continents, and backstory for every major character. But when you sit down to write Chapter 1, doubt creeps in. Is your worldbuilding enough? Should you have developed the languages first? What about the economic … Read more
You’ve got a fantasy story idea. Maybe it’s a character who won’t leave you alone, or a magic system that keeps you up at night, or just this feeling about a world you want to create. You open your notebook, pull up a blank document, and then… freeze. Do you start with a map? The … Read more
If you’re an urban fantasy writer, then I know your struggle. You want to write an urban fantasy that feels fresh, but you keep circling back to the same tired setups: vampire nightclubs, magical coffee shops, chosen ones discovering powers in Brooklyn apartments. The genre has room for so much more than that. Urban fantasy … Read more
Magical realism is what happens when the impossible walks calmly into an ordinary day, and everyone carries on with breakfast. For magical realism short story writers, that’s gold. You don’t need an elaborate fantasy world or a complex magic system. You just need one foot in reality, one in the uncanny, and the confidence to … Read more
You know that moment when your grandmother’s coffee cup starts floating during breakfast, and nobody mentions it because that’s just what happens on Tuesdays? That’s the heartbeat of magical realism, and it’s surprisingly hard to capture. Most writers reach for spectacle when they should be reaching for the ordinary. They create worlds where magic amazes … Read more
I bet that, like me, you too are bored with these medieval Europe clones with elves, dwarves, and a Dark Lord. Fantasy writers have used them to death and have turned off a lot of readers. But the problem isn’t the lack of imagination among writers. Worldbuilding is so impossibly vast that it’s quite difficult … Read more
If you’re a lover of cozy fantasy, then I’m sure you’ve a restless creative itch. It’s the itch that you get when you’re curled up with your third cup of coffee whilst scrolling through cottage-core aesthetics. It’s in this moment you wish you could escape into a world where the biggest drama is whether the … Read more
Your imagination needs a nice bit of push when you’re trying to conjure entire galaxies, future civilizations, or reality-bending technology from thin air. Science fiction is the genre that offers those limitless possibilities. But time-travel, alien encounters, and the worlds where impossible becomes the reality can be a hard task if you don’t know from … Read more