Recent content by Tandrel

Here's one from a burial ceremony with the Riddlers or Van'dri people. It says a little bit about their world view :) That which wasn't born Now will be into earth thrown A part of us have parted ways A part of us no longer count their days A part of us rest in the unknown A part of us...

I adore the nerd-level on this article! His/her writing made me think of something important in my world. I'm going to make it a little bit more scarcely populated outside the cities, and think of the population in the cities before I write them. After all a hundred thousand or a million is...

Love your new arc, gives great depth. Being lured by a fairy to the dark side is more compelling to me than adopted outsiderness (but anyone who's been adopted would probably identify more strongly with the first arc) Maybe you can do a transition? Start of with Laurendred and let the plot...

Thank you so much, this article had exceptional stuff for my wip regarding egalitarian societies!

Hihi, I feel I'm on the other side of the spectrum here, there's nothing that comes easier for me than writing the poems (writing a long conversation feels way harder!) It sounds like a beautiful idea to have lore poetry for your world, I do the same for my world and it's such a wonderful...

Wonderful idea! You can probably find some inspiration from the separation between mother and child. Both the instant phase of birth as well as the gradual separation when the child grows up and finds its own sense of self, values, direction and agency.

Wonderful! stone age instruments! Here are some instruments that could definetly be constructed: Drums! Lots of them, made by empty fruit shells, or carved out wood with animal skin on them. Maracas! Just use a hollow fruit / coconut shell and fill it with sand and stones :=) Ancient type of...

To all of you, WOW! This is such a mindblowing response. Bowing gratefully for all your help! This passage from you Devon was exactly the piece of advice I needed right now. I'm currently at the fifth revision of my first book. I've got some chapters on the second book and a large chunk of...

Hi fellow authors, writers and devotees of the written word I have a question: How did you find your audience? And perhaps even more important: what is your primary audience? I'm narrowing my project to these three persons at the moment, 1. Someone who loved reading (not just...