Recent content by Gurkhal

I like the sounds of this. One author whom I admire greatly often uses the scenario of giving characters great skill in some areas, and then puts them in situations that challenges them in entirely different areas and the reader gets to follow and see how that develops.

Very much so. As a personal story I'm dipping my toes into prospective Soulslike fantasy writing I'm gathering a ton of RPG PDFs for research and general enjoyment in reading them. Duel uses if there ever was one.

I personally wouldn't worry to much about being original, unique or whatever about magical powers of abilities. Picking one that works in a story with all the other elements and executing this story well is what will count in the end. Good luck though, I hope you find a good way to implement...

Go for a single setting that is explored all the more through different stories.

I was hoping to take up Dark Souls again and get Manus' hide for my trophy room but at the moment I'm not finding the oppertunity to do so due to RL issues. Hopefully I'll take this on in the future.

It looks cool to me but like others said almost any world looks good if the stories it carries are also good. What I could ask about are the inhabitants of this world. Are they all normal humans or fantasy species of a traditional or inventive bend?

Very interesting discussion in this thread. For myself I usually find the concept of an undefined evil to be to, well, impersonal or unengaging to read and write about and so I try to make it more personal, defined and engaging. This means that the evil/"evil" to oppose in one story is not...

I know that I've decided to make these things a part of the background of characters, as often as possible, as opposed to add it directly to the story as a important or explicit part of the plot or character development. And "fade to black" is always a very good way to handle these things.

Dark Souls tributes. I'm slowly getting my brain ready to plunge in once more. Even if not just yet.

Speaking of it I feel this too. Its like, people are living in blank spaces in my stories and when I try to flesh it out I'm like "now what...?"

Scenes where I think I haven't done the proper research are hard to write. It don't matter if I've done sufficient research or not. If its a subject I feel like I don't know enough I get hung up on details, if I've misunderstood something and so on and on.

Given that I'm angling for a 19th century setting the origin story in a mythological sense isn't really that important to my stories. There are so many more ways to make sense of the world and society that any great origin story for my world is being moved into the background. At least for now.

I kind of assume that my characters are average in pretty much every way unless I specify that they are not form some reason or another that's relevant for the story.

I write, or I try to write, essentially fantasy stories set in settings inspired by the long 19th century (1789-1923-ish). I am very happy to see this thread as that makes me feel not to alone with this focus on my, attempted, writing. What got me started was that I was making no progress in...

Its all about the story you want to tell. I don't have gods interfere in my stories in a way that characters and readers can directly link to said divine powers but then again I'm not really interested in the gods as characters in my stories and such they don't act like it. Divine forces can...