Recent content by SensibleRin

Thank you! This sounds like it will be very helpful - I love historical culture, but sometimes it's hard to know where to look.

I've had this happen a few times to me. An independent, strong-willed character will have gone through a major trauma, and is acting subdued and passive, allowing others to make decisions for them. OUT OF CHARACTER! Someone in the audience will holler. What is the difference between out...

Not outwitting people? How about psychological observation. Observation! People, animals, you name it. Witnessing people and creatures in their natural state, no need to worry about setting up experiments, or wording a survey just right. When you're isolated and alone, sometimes you call that...

I have yet to start. First chapter was completed last year, but I got stuck. I'm going to make a more committed start at the end of this semester.

I want to write an epic from the perspective of the serving class. My main character is surrounded by who would be the main characters in your typical story. She is the supplier - making magical items that aid their users in adventures and battles. Kattala is horribly disfigured, in a genre...

What is your opinion of the use of songs as an aid in fantasy stories? Do they have a place in a fantasy story? Obviously we have all come across clumsy rhymes, tiresome lyrics, that seem to have no place in the story. But when done well, can they add something? I like to use songs as a kind of...

Perhaps feybeasts as a collective term. For the domesticated ones, you could call them Tamebeasts, Perilousbeasts for the dangerous ones. Its sort of interesting. In my world Vanity there are multiple magical races, and even intelligent dragons and monsters that are sentient and actually...

The only things I have professionally published as of yet are a few short stories and poems in small college publications. I have a rather long semi-original Zelda-inspired series up on fanfiction.net that is on permanent hiatus. It's called Child of the Sun. You can find it here...

Present tense lives up to it name. It is more immediate. I think where the big problem enters in is that most of our storytelling is done via post-tense. Simply retelling something that happened to us is post-tense. With the exceptions of commentators, humans do not naturally tell tales...

For me having a regular calendar, with holidays and set birthdays and specific dates is incredibly freeing, ironically. All those little details add incredible verisimilitude to the story. For example, as I was plotting out a court intrigue, I looked at my timeline for that month and realized...

More recently, my MC, Kattala, began as my ideal self, way back when I was in JH (2000-2002). Now she is quite different from me, and has a severe facial disfiguration. She has her own accent, her own opinions, she likes fish where I do not. Somehow she went from a full-blown war mage who...

Has anyone had a character change their nature independent of your own designs? All my villains seem to become heroes. One of the characters important to my world's mythology, Kamiarn Malakarn, began as a very flat villain. He existed entirely for my hero Thereo to oppose and thwart. Halfway...

I complicate everything! In my world, Vanity, its all different. The day is longer, the week is shorter, the months are shorter but in greater number, and the year has more days in it. The hour, minute and second are really only the same. The day is 32 hours long. The week is five days...

When you look at our own conversations with people, we reveal a lot about ourselves and the world around us through dialogue. In particular that person's way of experiencing the world. The Know-it-all character is ideal for this, as JK Rowling's Hermione proved. Complaints are excellent for...

Hello, everyone. Thought I'd introduce myself. I've been actively developing a fantasy series for at least five years now, but am only now starting to get serious about writing it. I hope to find a support group here. Nobody in my real life wants to hear me go on and on about my stuff, or...