Recent content by ElliotWyndwryght

I agree, love triangles=blah The; oh you're adopted Hitting puberty and getting magical powers (I'm guilty of this one) Being destined to 'save the world'

In my world I was dealing with the same thing. Being set in medieval times you don't use the word 'magic' because in medieval times people accused of doing 'magic' were killed. Thus when the people with super-natural abilities rolled around they were very careful to call their abilities power...

Wouldn't seducing someone to get them to give you something be considered prostitution? Really I thought that was the whole definition, selling your body for material gain and all. So doesn't doing that qualify her as a slut? I was genuinely asking earlier I've never enjoyed reading books...

Um, using sexuality to move upward in society by seducing people and flirting with the intention of manipulating someone is slutty behavior. Yeah people use this to get ahead but with great cost to the people they walk over. Falling in love with someone who's 'beautiful and well-dressed' isn't...

No please don't do that! I'm begging you; don't make your 'good guys' bad!! Please!!!! ;) I'm joking, but really, that's the thing that gets on my nerves the most when I'm reading. When the MC isn't someone you admire or want to imitate because they're so revolting you'd wish the author would...

I did!!! :) Didn't get it in until the last day but that counts. Now that's four books I've finished! Now for editing...

I just make up a simple word and add suffixes. For example most of my fantasy is set in medieval times so I come up with names like: Barrowsdale Darrowby Attonary You can even use last names. If you want to keep it simple you might want to use object words and add suffixes: Bluesen Greendale...

Having rules to the magic/power seems like the best bet. Has anyone else wanted to hit the author over the head when their characters easily escape a difficult situation one chapter and then gets ensnared in the next by something simple? I always come up with rules for the magic/power so I...

What do you guys think makes a good ghost? Forever bleeding wounds? The tragic back stories? Their other worldliness? Their ability to walk through walls? I was raised a strict conservative Baptist, ghosts were evil, as was dancing and loud music. I'm getting over that, but never having read...

It really depends on who your 'god' is. If your God is an all-powerful, all-knowing creator kind of god they don't seem to talk to anyone and when they do they don't waste words. If your god is a Roman or Greek god they'd probably treat the mortals as playthings, or idiots. The anatomy of...

My mother was positive that I would be a male. She had this system with her kids (nine altogether) if the pregnancy was easy then it was a boy, if it was stressful the baby was a girl. So they were calling me Elliot before I was even born. But then; I was born, and mom had to ditch her system...

I think it depends on who you're writing for. When I'm writing a story for an audience the age of my younger brothers I don't put cussing in it, it doesn't belong, honestly if the characters in the story started cursing it would be forced and corny. However in more recent stories the...

Personally I really don't like the books with the 'ultimate sacrifice' at the end (unless they end up living like in Harry Potter). You typically want your reader to like your protagonist. So killing them at the end is like giving someone a pet, waiting until they fall in love with it, and then...

Got pointed to this website by a Fluffypoodel. I've had little birdies telling me things but never a fluffy poodle so we'll see how this goes. ;) I've been writing fantasy for just over a year now, before that I spent six years writing without knowing that there was a genre for my subject. I've...