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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Most recent books you bought..Not fantasy, but The Catcher in the Rye. Literary fiction isn't typically my cup of tea, but for some reason, that one always piqued my... -
D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Worldbuilding without a story?.Yeah, the times where I began with the story snd characters, I defaulted to the standard pseudo-medieval style aesthetic and just fill...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Worldbuilding without a story?.I'm not a LotR but I might check that out just to see what his earlier works were right. I feel like a lot of what I write is crap, so...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread How Is Your World Like?.For Game of Thrones, I think it's less that it's extremely low fantasy, and more about the tone. It's too cynical for my liking. Most of...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread How Is Your World Like?.My settings tend to be more grounded and down to earth, but not as much as some other settings. For instance, I think Game of Thrones...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Worldbuilding without a story?.Wait, not all of Tolkien's stuff was good?
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Has medieval style fantasy had its day?.Yes. I just meant most mainstream fantasy assumes a Western European culture and aesthetic, at least in the minds of your average...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Has medieval style fantasy had its day?.In some ways, I think there's no winning, at least if your a Westerner/European. Don't write Medieval fantasy, because it's been done to...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Most weird or bizarre things you have written?.Let's see, I have a few: 1. I once wrote a story about a man on a hike through the woods. He ends up chasing a toad because it stole...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread What's a 'famous' movie you haven't seen?.There's actually a lot I have never seen, mostly because I have never gotten the chance to see them. Also, I don't watch movies that...
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Anyone else here built a setting without any story in particular in mind? Is it bad to do? I've been working on a steampunk fantasy...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Dipping my toes in conlanging.I'm a conlanger, but most of my projects aren't related to any novels I am working on. Tbh, you don't need much. Jusr a few phrases or...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread How do you name characters?.Yeah, for fictional settings, I just resort to random gibberish that I think sound nice.
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Is it possible to have non-cliché dwarfs?.Probably to do with the correlation with the Scottish Highlands and the dwarves being a mountain-centered society (albeit more...
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D. Gray Warrior replied to the thread Where do I start?.I start with a general idea or theme. It doesn't have to be a story idea per se, but some kind of idea for the setting (like a magic...