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How to Write a Kick-Ass Fantasy Battle ft. Suzannah Rowntree

How to Write a Kick-Ass Fantasy Battle ft. Suzannah Rowntree

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Anyone who’s ever written fantasy has faced this problem: You have hit the point of conflict in a story where problems can no longer be worked out with witty retorts or a magic spell. The orcs are at the gates, the peace talks have broken down…that’s right—you’re going to have to write a battle scene. In this episode, we talk to Suzannah Rowntree, author of How to Write a Fantasy Battle: Basic Medieval and Modern Military Tactics for Authors, The Watchers of Outremer Series, and other historical fantasies, about how to get a battle right.

Show Notes:

  • Suzannah's Bluesky: suzannahrowntree
  • Suzannah's Instagram: suzannahsnaps
  • Suzannahrowntree.site
  • How to Write a Fantasy Battle: Basic Medieval and Modern Military Tactics for Authors
  • Western Warfare In The Age Of The Crusades, 1000-1300 by John France
  • Byzantine flamethrower
  • Battle of Antioch (1098)
  • Battle of Hattin (1187)
  • Seventh Crusade
  • Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon by Piers D. Mitchell
  • Magistra Hersend
  • Godfrey of Bouillon
  • The Rebellion Of Count Hugh Of Jaffa


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