Recent content by Catharsis

If your story does develop the plot and characters enough, then the size of the chapters is largely irrelevant. Honestly though, if you chapters seem too short, you probably could expand on character development. For most of my writing, setting up extra scenes or dialogue prove to be very...

Honestly any fantasy culture will end up being derived to an extent from cultures which exist now or existed at some point in time. You can minimize the direct relationship by staying away from any similar names and such. Most of the work I've done has been fairly eurocentric. As long as you do...

Are you intending to write some sort of parody of the "Dark Lord" archetype? Sounds like it could certainly be an interesting twist on the cliché of pure evil villainy. I wouldn't recommend adding such a character to a more novel with a more serious theme. I suppose that goes without saying...

Very well done map in my opinion, the program you used seems to be very clean and sharp. In all honesty, the continent reminds me generally of Europe! I'm not sure if you were intending to mimic that at all, but thats the first thing which came to mind when I saw it in its entirety.

Hello everyone! I have recently begun looking for sources to help me to critique and build my work, and this forum seems to be an excellent place for such feedback and advice. I look forward to getting to know you all and to become part of what seems to be a rich forum community. I currently...

In all honesty your created world can be as large as you want. The scale only becomes an issue if you attempt to include unnecessary portions of it into your work. Only use portions of it that you need, as in my opinion overwhelming readers never turns out too well.

Personally I have always found the beginning of my story to be one of the easier portions to write, simply because I have a fresh slate when it comes to the plot. I don't have to wrap up any loose ends or anything of the like. However I have also found that the opening of a story can often be...

I have used several plotting methods in the past, one of which has worked much better than the others. That is, I begin by generally developing a few main plot points which I wish to cover and also the characters which they influence. From that point on I simply write to cover the large expanses...