Recent content by Arhenvir

I hear a lot of these comments from people who haven't opened a book since they were forced to in high school. To them, fiction writing seems to mean 'making stuff up all day' until such time as I've filled an entire book cover-to-cover. They don't think about (or understand) what good writing...

I definitely think about doing this a lot, especially when it comes to one nation annexing and 'saving' another country that is suffering due to countless violations of human rights. Or, rather, other-than-humans' rights. Also, since I was in high school I've always been fascinated by the...

I got a lot of inspiration from RPGs when I was younger, mostly from video gaming though. Final Fantasy helped me realize that people can embrace systems of magic and special talents outside of traditional fairy tales or in the Harry Potter series. That, and sometimes admiring the pretty...

A little clarification would be helpful, but since you said you've already considered changing to two protagonists or twins, I read that as having a hard time deciding what sex your protagonist is. My two cents is that it might be fun to have a character with an androgynous type of personality...

I love this idea! As I read this post I was thinking specifically of highlighting all the wonderful and cruel facets alike of life in both 'worlds' -- attaining a balance so that the character can't possibly choose one over the other. A dragonslayer or noble in one world... but with a...

You've asked some very good questions that are going to keep me up tonight. :p I've fallen into a habit of putting a lot of myself into my characters lately. This guy has these traits, that girl has those other traits, and so on. After I suffered a brain injury two years ago, I thought about...

I'm with this 100%! I always imagined that if I saw something I wrote for sale in a bookstore, I'd balk at seeing my real name together with a dark, intriguing title/picture on the cover. Blehhh.

Many thanks for the kind replies and welcome messages. So the four fantasy books in my bag, in no particular order: - The Rise of Nagash (anthology) by Mike Lee - Orion: The Vaults of Winter by Darius Hinks (The first two are Warhammer fantasy books. Until a year ago I didn't know Warhammer...

Hi everybody! I'm going by Arhenvir, and it's the name of one of the oldest fantasy roleplaying characters I've ever created. I'm a 24-year-old female living in Japan, serving in the U.S. military. A little over a year ago I discovered this site when I needed motivation to write my novel...