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New Writer’s Guide to Submissions

Welcome, fellow writers! We are relatively new writers ourselves, and we have recently had to discover where and how to submit our writing. We thought we could help you out by sharing what we have learned so far about submissions. Building Up Confidence Having confidence with anything in life, not just writing, is difficult to achieve. But when it comes […]

The Only Dragonrider – Chapter 2

Welcome, Fantasy Nerds! This is Chapter 2 of a collaborative fantasy story that we will be taking turns writing. If you haven’t read the first chapter, you can find it here. We hope you enjoy our story! Chapter Two – WTF Within seconds we are so high up the men below, including my master, looked like nothing but specks of […]

Best Board Games for Fantasy Nerds

Welcome, Fantasy Nerds! This week we want to talk about our favorite fantasy board games! If you don’t know, our family is really big on playing board games together. In fact, our parents actually own a game store called Pair A Dice Games (you can find them on Facebook). Of course, we are very excited to bring you the best […]

The Only Dragonrider

Welcome, Fantasy Nerds! We are excited to do something that we have never done before at Clever & WTF….we are writing a story together!!! We will take turns writing a short chapter, and then the other person will continue the story the following week. We won’t talk about where we intend the story to go or any ideas we have. […]

Best Christmas Gifts for Writers

Welcome, Fantasy Nerds! We know a lot of our followers are also writers, so we wanted to make another Christmas list for you. While we love all the fun fantasy gifts, we also like to receive gifts to help us along on our writing journey. We hope you find some gifts for yourself or your writer friends! Pens and Notebooks […]

Red Shadow

Alasdair clutched his cloak as the wind picked up, snow falling softly to the sodden ground, it was mid-winter. His toes were beginning to numb as he finally neared his small cottage home. He could see the smoke rising from his chimney, and imagined the warm fire and smiling wife waiting there to greet him. He grinned absentmindedly, he had […]

A Tyro’s Tale

Welcome, Fantasy Nerds! Today we have a special treat for you…not one story, but two! The story below is the first story I ever had published, “A Tyro’s Tale”. You can still find it in the Write of Passion Literary Journal – The Fantasy Issue. As a bonus, my brand new story, “The True Gift”, was just published in the […]

Best TV Shows for Fantasy Nerds

Welcome, Fantasy Nerds! This is the next post in our series, “Best Things for Fantasy Nerds”. Today we are talking about the best fantasy-related TV shows. We decided to focus on some more recent shows, because there are so many TV shows out there.  Game of Thrones Game of Thrones is the embodiment of fantasy. I doubt anyone is surprised […]

This Is Why I Don’t Like Halloween

Ellie stumbled out of her bed, flinging her covers off “Fuck” she mumbled “I slept in late AGAIN” She did this every morning, staying up too late at night, snoozing her alarm about ten times before she actually got out of bed. She quickly pulled on her favorite, but very worn, pair of jeans, and a pulled a hoodie over […]