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I think it should also depend on whether or not your fantasy is set in an historic setting or in a fantastical Middle Earth/Narnia/Westeros type of setting. If you are using Europe as a medieval fantasy setting (as opposed to a contemporary Urban Fantasy), then I would recommend trying to find...

It took me a little while to find a good illustrative blog post, but here is one by my friend John Granger on the subject of literary alchemy being used in the Harry Potter series. He has written several companion books to the HP series and has lectured extensively in the States at different HP...

Braveheart174, Why don't you buy (or borrow from a library) a few books on symbolism? I have on my shelf A Dictionary of Symbols by J.E. Cirlot and The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay. If you browse through them or other books in the same vein, you may find yourself inspired...

It actually depends on the genre in which you wish to be published. From scouring agent blogs over the years I've seen this topic discussed many times. 50K is way too short to be considered a novel. It is more of a long novella and those are really hard to sell. The preferred length for...

I agree with Ursa Major's example of how you should punctuate dialogue that would span two paragraphs, however I would caution against doing it that way. That is because I think you *should* break up monologues with actions. Even if it is the character wiping his brow while giving a speech at...

I like Mouse's choice for structuring that sentence. As for using colons in dialogue, the only author I remember using that was Ken Follett in Pillars of the Earth. (Since it's the only Ken Follett book I've read, he might use that punctuation mark in dialogue in all of them so the citation is...