Recent content by thequillwitch

Cliches, tropes, archetypes. One or the other, people will always be drawn to them. Humans prefer that which is familiar, that which they know, what resonates with them. Like a child that always want to read their favorite book. It´s comforting. Of course there is also room for your own...

Thank you lore master.

No need to apologize! At least we´re on the same wavelength. Thanks for the greeting! Hop we can work together some day soon.

Thanks for the warm welcome, but I beg to differ. fantasy --even high fantasy, in children´s books, has been around for a very long time, in fact, i´m pretty certain that several of the scribes here discovered their love of fanatasy from reading fantasy when they were children. Not only that...

Thank you for considering the idea. It sound like a start...we´ll see if others are interested and if it does have enough people to open a new forum. I´ll keep my eyes peeled!

Wow!! you learn something new everyday. The man who laughs--never read it and had no idea it was the inspiration for The Joker. There´s a new kids book--by the time you reach me--a sort of speculative fiction kind of thing that has a laughing man in the story..hmmm

Hi, thanks for responding so promptly. Well, I write for Middle Grade, so I´m thinking along the line of 8 to 12 year olds. There´s too much in YA going on already but very few space for MG writers. Think: Diane Wynn Jones, Jane Yolen, JK Rowling, C.S. Lewis. Watership Down, The Earthsea...

I need a magic ring!

I can tell you what i did, and hope it helps you. I had 30,000 ideas in my head and i thought they were all suppose to fit in one story, but they weren´t. It was just that i wanted to write about all that. So, I sat down and separated my ideas into differnt stories, much like unraveling a yarn...

I had never heard of fantastique--can you provide examples?

I think you should focus on your story first and foremost. In the meantime try taking some courses on grammar and punctuation. There´s a bunch of free stuff on the internet. Write your story then go back and edit with the info on hand. The whole adver adjective thing is really personal taste i...

It´s wonderful to have a place where fantasy writers can get together and talk about things other just dont understand. Thanks for this. But, is there any chance mythscribes can open a section especially for children´s writers? pretty please.

Hello everyone. I´m new around here and just thought i´d say hi. i write speculative for adults, but mostly I write fantasy for kids. This place looks like i could get addicted to it. Any chance of opening a forum for kids writers? I live in Mexico so if you ever need words in sanish, you...