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I’ve been thinking about writing a fantasy novel with a female protagonist for a while now. My protagonist would be a liar, a thief, a storyteller who travels around the world and gets in really big trouble. I envision her as a cross between Locke Lamora and Kvothe, only that the story gets...

My favourite fantasy novel ever is probably "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch. When I first read it earlier this year I was literally speechless. It was that good! It's the one novel I wish I could have written. Its two (so far) sequels are good as well, but not as outstanding as...

I also weave the description of my characters into the narrative. I might have one of my characters complain that he usually has to look up at other men because he’s so short, another character might tie her long hair into a ponytail before she fights so that it doesn’t get in her way and so...

When I was working on my previous novels, I didn’t plan anything. As a consequence they were just … lacking, and I never did anything with them again because fixing them seemed to be an impossible task. With my current project I’ve decided to make a detailled outline and character profiles...

I don't have anybody named "Betty" or something similar, but only characters with relatively plain names, so I'll refrain from name changes for now. Thank you for your help!

Thank you for the welcome, everybody! I've noticed that I can't acess certain parts of this forum until I have 5 posts. Do those posts have to be in a specific subforum?

I'm currently giving "The Darkness that Comes Before" by R. Scott Bakker another chance. I bought the book a few years ago, but didn't finish it even though it had everything I usually liked in a fantasy novel. For some reason I'm enjoying it much more now. I might even read its sequels.

Diseases play a big role in my work. Certain diseases have killed thousands and changed the course of history. I’ve made up diseases for my fantasy world. There’s a particularly nasty one called swamp fever that killed the mother of the protagonist of my latest story (and left him with some...

That's good to know. :)

What would you think if you encountered a woman named Elaine or a man named Edward in a fantasy novel? Would that turn you off or would you not care as long as the novel were good? I've pondered this issue for a while now. In the series I'm working on my characters have made up, but hopefully...

I’m Adalind, a name that I shamelessly stole from one of my favourite TV shows (feel free to guess which one). I’m a PhD student from Austria (aka the other side of the world to most of you), and I (mostly) write fantasy. English is not my native language. I only learned it when I was about...