Recent content by ThalaeaAithusia

"The Battle" from the Narnia soundtrack is on my epic music list...along with Mozart's requiem, chopin waltzes, Etude #12 in C Minor by Chopin (great for coming up with those tense moment type scenes... Music is certainly an inspiration for me...:) I also tend to just start...

I usually start by building up the culture and general "world"...and then if I come across something that needs to be explained...oh botheration. Example: I had this brilliant idea (not) to create a race called the Jehkira. They were horses...only better. Jehkira were faster, stronger, more...

I like the idea of the hero and lover dying at the end...(am I being horrid? I'm sorry...) But you're right...endings are so unrealistic sometimes...and the whole "Riding off into the sunset" thing has been re-worded and re-worked and re-everything to the point of being worse than cliche...it's...

Depends on the story...my fantasy has titles like "Silence" "Before the Storm" "Voices in the Night" "The Storm Begins" "A Test of strength" and then the chapter after that is "Failure"...so you get the idea that the tes of strangth didn't go too well... But say, in a western type story... I...

I like to take a particularly rotten human vice, and then personify it. I then "tweak" until I have a creature that is nothing like anything we see in our world...you can get some pretty gruesome monsters than way. For the "good creature" type things, I like to personify something really good...