Recent content by Gav

thanks everyone. I really appreciate the input, and after looking through all your posts I think perhaps i have just got bogged down in something that isn't particularly important but due to me thinking about it i have started to over think it. Much appreciated!

I absolutely agree, and perhaps i wasn't so clear in my post, if not i do apologise. It wasn't so much that i was looking to create an entirely new unit of measurement, after all I want people to be able to read it and understand what it depicts, so saying something is "17 dannars across" isnt...

Hey everyone. I was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to go about measuring distance in fantasy writing. My story is set in kind of a high fantasy setting, I guess a 'swords and sorcery' pigeon hole if I was to describe it vaguely, and I was wondering how to go about describing how...

thanks for all the advice folks! so far what i have tried to do is try break down the extracts into what i feel are common themes and feelings between themselves. being a lot more critical and trying to purely look at them not as their own stories, but as a small part of a over arching theme...

you could always try to bastardize an existing word that already is synonymous for what your mages can do. So something like 'Velocimers' for your movers (a play on the word velocity) or maybe 'thermancer' for your nuclear mage ( uses the word thermal and could imply themo-nuclear when...

Hey all who happen to read this! to give a quick recap of my situation, i have only very recently tried to get back into writing after a long loooong time of not doing it at all. anyway, what i was hoping someone could help with is this: since getting back into writing i have been...

I quite like this idea... an underlying personal story about him battling to not loose his humanity completely could be quite good. The 'darkness' inside him constantly trying to subvert him, and him fighting against it and trying to hold out. He could perhaps start learning to build up its rage...

I see your hunter, gardener and farmer, and raise you... A Thief/Assassin :)

ok, this is just had an idea that’s been in my head for a while now, but i rather think im not getting the most out of it so far. one of the ideas I’m having for a work im working on just now is a kind of redemption storyline, but to try to make it a little different is that i was thinking i...

welcome! and well done on getting what seems like so much done in a short space of time! im in a similar possition myself just getting back into it. i may not be the font of all knowledge, but nything i can help with or put in an opinion on i will be happy to! :D

thank you for the warm welcome everyone, it doth warm the very cockles of my heart! but i do look forward to easing myself back into this pass time, joinging in best i can and of course, to being a part of your fine, and most eloquent of communities :)

a book i have not lonng finished reading was "John dies at the end" by David Wong. i guess it would be classed as Horror, although its a very humerous in its random nature and content. its hard to describe, but its definately worth reading. the author actually works on the Website cracked.com...

I think having anyone able to use magic through training can sometimes lower the impact it can have when it is used, especially if its going to be a big deal when it IS used. so, in my humble opinion, unless magic is going to be something your humans would deal with every day, i would imagine...

perhaps this is because i myself have not really done very much writing in a long time, and will happily admit i am certainly un-practiced, but one of the difficulties that i am finding trying to start writing again is that alot of my ideas seem to very quickly fall into what i would class as a...

Hey everyone, im never quite sure as to what exactly im meant to put into these type of things, but i guess a short summary would be that I'm Gav (or Gavin) From Scotland in the UK. i have always enjoyed writing fictional fantasy style short stories, stemming back as far as i can remember...