Recent content by Black Gate of Mordor

I have three continents in my main world, but the major one has 97 cities/towns, whilst one other has 24 (the continent is only about half the size), and the last contient has 10 (but is midway in size between the largest and smallest). The first book in my story has twenty-one cities that the...

I usually title my chapters, but I almost always give them an extremely generic name (such as "The Girl"). I do it so that potential readers won't be able to tell what the chapter is about, but reflecting back they'll work out why I named it such. I occasionally change the generic names to...

I'm athiest, and I go to a Christian Scientist school. Only because it's a really good school, and they accept all beliefs. A note on Christian Science - it's basically a 'modern' approach to the bible and stuff (I use quotations because the book on Christian Science was written in the 30s or...

Well, mine is quite unusual. First, I made a map, which was supposed to be more populated depending on what part of the oval people played in the most (this was four/five years ago in primary school). Note: It did not turn out like it at all. From that map I came up with other continents of the...

I saw an ad at the top of another forum I go to (Hortorian) and clicked on it. Since I mainly write fantasy, I figured that this would probably be good for me.

But Norse mythology is actually a lie, because it's not actually Norse. The 'Norse' mythologies were based on a document that may have been Norse, in very bad condition. The man who wrote them out was Christian too, so Norse mythology isn't actually norse. Oh, I forgot to mention the other...

Personally, the name has to fit the world in some way. Not only does it have to sound right, but it has to look right. Anyway, for my world I named it Rasadae (there is a trema on the 'e', so it is pronounced 'RAS-a-DAY-e'). Really, naming a world shouldn't be that hard and shouldn't take too...

Cliches are simply things that have been successful in the past, and because of that success are over-used by worse authors, and over time the reader's tolerance for them becomes shorter and shorter. Then you reach our time, where most readers probably won't read a book about Good vs. Evil...