From Sanctity to Sorcery: An Author’s Guide to Building Belief Structures and Magic Systems

by A. Trevena

Want to create a magic system for your world, but don’t know where to start? Need help building religions and belief structures that feel real? From Sanctity to Sorcery breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will guide you from side-show trickster to all-powerful sorcerer. This workbook will help you * Create a magic system your readers can truly believe in * Build belief structures that feel ancient and organic * Use magic and religion to raise the stakes and increase tension * Create an immersive experience for your readers with powerful worldbuilding Work your way through prompts designed to fully integrate beliefs and magic into your worldbuilding. Learn how to create wizardry and wonder to raise your characters up, or to crush them down. Get From Sanctity to Sorcery today, and become a master of magic and marvel. Available as both an ebook Guidebook and a paperback Workbook with space for answering each prompt.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

137 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 20, 2020

About the author

Angeline Trevena was born and bred in a rural corner of Devon, but now lives among the breweries and canals of central England with her husband, their two sons, and a rather neurotic cat. She is a dystopian urban fantasy and post-apocalyptic author, a podcaster, and events manager.

In 2003 she graduated from Edge Hill University, Lancashire, with a BA Hons Degree in Drama and Writing. During this time she decided that her future lay in writing words rather than performing them.

Some years ago she worked at an antique auction house and religiously checked every wardrobe that came in to see if Narnia was in the back of it. She's still not given up looking for it.

Reviews

[Benjamin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Extremely basic. Only useful for beginners and contains very general prompts with only the most rudimentary interrogation of these. It is intended as a workbook, but one might be somewhat better off simply purchasing a decent notebook for all the guidance this will offer.

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazing book that every writer should buy. I only wished it was longer, and maybe that it provided worksheets with the specific questions instead of them being scattered through the chapters.

Regardless, it is an essential book in my craft collection. I def recommend it.

[James Geary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sanctity to Sorcery was another great guide from this series. and it definitely gave me a lot to think about in terms of building belief and magic systems for my future projects, as I have a lot of ideas for fantasy stories. I will definitely be referring back to this when I'm outlining.

[Me · Rating 4 out of 5]

It certainly has it's used. More for people who are creating a world from scratch, not what I'm doing, but the prompts were pretty good.

Requires a separate notebook for bigger ideas