Recent content by celebathien

Ahhh. I see! The question came up originally because of a news story from way-back, 2006 or earlier, about a teen girl from one of the more rural areas of Africa being guarded by lions until her rescuers came. She had been kidnapped and beaten and abused by a group of men who wanted to marry...

I'll see if I can't get hold of the book in question. But tlbodine: the link tells me it's not working? Or not there? "Not functioning on our website."

I'll keep this in mind. I'll see if I can't post the actual short-story that I'm talking about with this to my portfolio tomorrow in fact, and see if anyone's interested in poking at it a little. :)

One of the questions that has bothered me regards the use of real-world cultures in what a fantasy writer chooses to write about. Here's what I mean: I have a short story based in an unknown world that should be recognizable as that of Africa. There are lions, native people, and the like. The...

I'm wondering if anyone has any knowledge or sources on African cultures? I know there are many, but I'd love to find some starting points with real, researchable sources that will lead me to other sources. I have access to a library, but I'm not sure where to start looking. I have a short...

I had an idea for a novel that, when I started really thinking about it, became a technical nightmare. The long and the short of it was that our world and another one intersect long enough to throw a lot of people over to one side from this one, and they have to learn to survive there. The thing...

Good evening, everyone. :) Just another new face round here. I'm a fantasy writer by trade. I really do love the places your imagination can go in order to tell a good story. I hope to see everyone on the forums. And if anyone else is in Texas, what is UP with our weather? Geez. :eek:

Interesting. One question though (and I'm serious about this): is this counting everything you've ever written, or what you've put your hand to writing only as an adult? I ask because we've learned to write from a very young age, and most of us were actually writing essays on state exams and...

I'd love to say that I'm 100% in one camp or the other, but the truth is... I'm not, really. I tend to outline things that I want to happen in the novel to the end, but during writing, I wind up with long passages (frequently) that weren't in the outline and that smack of discovery writing. The...

T.Allen.Smith is right, and just about everyone else is too. Your first draft, write! Don't worry about length. Write the story the way you want it to be. You have to come back and edit it after the first draft regardless, and some of what you've written inevitably winds up on the cutting room...

Brokethepoint has a good... well, point. This may sound like it has nothing at all to do with this topic, but bear with me. I'm currently reading, for a master's level course in English, Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Most of it takes place on a mountainside in Spain during the Spanish...