Recent content by William Russell

William Russell notes the new person in the tavern. Once he catches the newcomers eye, he nods in welcome then turns to the bartender and says, "Buy the new guy a drink...no...from the top shelf..."

Welcome Jun Peng, The trials of stay at home dadhood. Is that a word? Sounds like you have a very young one at home. My young lady is now 13 and a teenager. It will be eye opening in any event, I am sure. It changes once they can dress themselves and slowly get less dependent. Glad you at...

Hello Bardic_Knowledge, You sound very knowledgeable. This is a good attribute to have. When your stories involve planets then I assume it will be vast and expansive. I guess Jupiter, Saturn, etc are taken so you will have to be creative. Lots of creativity here as well as much knowledge to...

Welcome Mau, Lots of love in this place. So do you own the cats or do they own you? Haha. I've been told when they outnumber you it can be that way. Sounds like your love of animals has transgressed into your writing. Very interesting concepts for stories. When you say 'messengers' do you...

Welcome DragonRhapsody, I think there is a whole thread related to magic systems in here. Plus a lot of other wonderful things. The Karaoke is fun but when it's my turn to rip one out it probably sounds like a dragon... Enjoy

Hello Rezonix, There are a lot of resources and discussions here that helped me a lot in a short time. Take advantage of it. I am also an expert in IT myself and actually have a programming degree but never pursued it. (Coding is boring). I took up the other side in my spare time - hardware...

Hello and welcome anotherwriter2019, My family is very supportive of me which is nice and I consider myself very lucky. I even got my brother to read a non-text book for the first time in his life! The miracles never cease to amaze. My mother is the creative one in our family and I must have...

Hello Magicat, Hopefully the four years has given you time to regenerate some good ideas you can use to write some great things. Congrats on the publication also.

Elmjir, the god of creativity could be an order of wizards who forward an order of learning new ways to do magic. Maybe an order that strives to teach that knowledge to others in the religion. Cunir, the god of curiosity could be the god of education and research. An order striving to bring...

Apparently I am a Protagonist ENTJ-A. Not sure what the A is for but it sounds ominous. I will be starring in the next novel you write...ha ha!

So this candle is the catalyst that brings the wizard and the apprentice together. By intriguing the wizard as he doesn't understand it, it creates more interest in him for the apprentice. This feeds the relationship that develops in the future over time. The candle is what makes the...

1. Organization of a lot of stuff. I think the background information is required and much thinking is done on this in order to create a world that has certain standards and certain objectives. I have thousands of word documents for characters and places as well as maps in order to visualize...

This is a result of the new kinder, gentler prison system...

Sort of a take on the Town Crier role. Back in those days paper was more expensive than hiring someone to read it out, is my guess.

Literally some early white water rafting adventure. Cool photo.