Recent content by pixallmighty

If you really want to to know more about creating maps, I highly recommend the Cartographer's Guild, a forum where you can ask anything about mapping and find usefull resources to help you. It helped me a lot, from finding the style of my map to creating it, with free software like Gimp...

Does someone knows a good software to create a timeline? My story is starting to become pretty complex and I need a simple tool to avoid getting lost. I know I could create a timeline with word or excel, but if anyone knows a good - and free- software, that would be awesome. Thanks!

Do you have some examples of things that could happen? You mentioned auroras, but do you know what would be the impact(s) on the moon of such phenomenon?

I think that making languages - I mean, real, speakable ones, like elvish or klingon - must be exhausting. In my WIP, I would tend to mimic them by creating ensembles of sounds and phonemes in a certain way that they would be understood by the reader to be this or that language. For example...

I thought about what all of said, made some decisions and found what was important to me. I had a lot of ideas that were just cool, but weren't necessary: so I have some numbers to work with, and if I have to give up some ideas, than so be it. -One day and one night last 28 hours. -The...

That was pretty much the point of posting all this here :D I don't need «hard science», just to build a system that is scientifically coherent. My questions may seem to be require complex answers, but they don't. I won't have to use precise numbers and exact inclination degrees to describe...

Thanks for your illuminating help. This is what I thought: My world (which I will call the Moon, since I have no better name for it) orbits around a Saturn,like planet (which I will call the Planet, for the same reason). The Planet has rings and a few other moons, other than the Moon. I...

That's the point: somehow, these numbers will be key plot elements. If the moon stays in the planet's shadow fo 2 weeks or more (like in the Pitch Black movie), there must be some consequences on the storyline. But you're right, I could just pick numbers that suit me and be done with it. On the...

I have this SF/Fantasy project that I'm working on. A few months ago I started to do some world building and I've gathered almost everything I need, expect for one thing. I want my story to take place on another world (duh!) where the sky tells the reader/characters that they're no longer on...