Sometimes I like it when a story doesn't tie up super neatly, because just like real life a story never really ends and nothing is ever 100% resolved in life.
Depends, what Selenus said is good advice. However if you are writing a fantasy in a fiction world I say create a constructed language, or at least enough of one to make a naming convention for the places and characters. There are lots of guides, and you can PM Batman he loves that stuff and has...
Yeah, I've even written (and am writing) a lot of ancillary materials to the main saga that chronicles the history, mythos and even biology etc of the various races. I am also taking the TES route in that the greater happenings and myths (stories/actions of the Gods) of the world are interpreted...
It takes place in a fantasy world I created, little by little for most of my life. What I am working on are a series of novels that take place within the same general timeframe, all within a few years of each other except for one which takes place 50 years prior to the others. Each story...
I am working on a multi-part epic fantasy that has in one way or the other been in the works for years. But a TON has changed in my planning process and it looks very different than from when it started.