That's amazing, Foah! Congrats!
I definitely know what it's like to be in that crappy post-student job slump, but sometimes things do find a way to work themselves out. :)
Welcome, Zeina!
I was around your age when I first started dabbling seriously into forums. I took a break for a long while, and now I'm 27 and dabbling in it again! :) So age doesn't matter as long as you're passionate about something.
I'm new as well; welcome from one newbie to another...
Totally true. I wasn't thinking about it that way.
I guess I see it as half and half — a continent, but on the smaller side, so more with regions like the Shire?
Yeah, I'm thinking I may need to redraw and adjust within my story in some way, even if it's just to give a better sense of how...
Any good way to measure distance between different points on a map you've created? What do you use as a baseline?
What's a relatively normal distance on foot vs. horseback per day, do you think?
I'm struggling with conveying the geography of my world. I have a map (roughly sketched), but my last critique partner wasn't able to get a good sense just from reading the story of where one location was from another, or how big the world / country was.
I know this probably means I need to...
What about giving him a special title (especially since he's a noble)? In the book Uprooted (one of my recent favorites), there's a wizard named "the Dragon." Something like that might work?
Thanks, Russ! This seems like a warm, thriving community.
I'm deep in revisions (third pass, I think?), so I'm sure I'll have lots of questions. :) In the meantime, I'm excited to jump in to some conversations.
Let me know if you have any recommendations for good threads to start with!
Hi, Scribes! I'm Stephanie, and I joined the forums to chat with other fantasy writers and immerse myself in a writing community. It can be lonely out there.
A little about me: I'm 27 years old and working on my second finished novel (I'm not yet published). I like cats, good food, Booktube...