Recent content by GwenhwyfarRaven

To use the terms in-world, they would have to fit with the linguistic pattern of the rest of the world. I've been using English words to name things to avoid making whole new languages or explaining etymology. There are creatures called questers and cloven horses, there are places called...

Well, the "powers" and "schools" aren't things that can be taught, but more schools of thought. Each being in this fantastical world is born with a Gift, and their species determines what magical "category" or what-have-you that it falls under. The elves may be born with either plant-related...

What glutton said lol. Mostly a comics thing. It's one of Superman's powers, for example. But the power set range for that power in my WIP is matter manipulation. One character can transmute inorganic material into other inorganic material, like alchemy. Other characters have superstrength...

So I'm struggling with what to call different "kinds" of magic in my WIP. I always have to describe them more with whole sentences than terms or words, and that gets exhausting after a while. They're pretty much divided into two different "schools" of magic, one that has to do with nature...

I just started skimming through the book "The Mythic Guide to Characters," by Dr. Antonio Del Drago. I don't normally have a problem with building main characters, but I'm a little apprehensive that my side characters aren't defined enough, so I thought I'd breeze through this and see what I...

Haha, Gwenhwyfar is the Welsh spelling of Guinevere's name from Arthurian legend :) I also hear that it's the name of a panther in a popular book series based on a D&D character lol.

Haha, I've spent so much time making sure I have the characters fleshed out that some of them have dossiers 4-7 pages long. I've spent so much time planning them that I think a lot of that planning will get tossed aside in order for me to feel the freedom to get to know the character more...

That's a really interesting quote, and I think that's closer to the way I write organically. I just get scared when I'm making a whole new world because I've never successfully written a story in a totally fantastical world. I should trust my instincts more and write for my characters instead...

Wow, that is a lot of amazing advice. I'm really new here, so I'm relieved and inspired by the responsiveness of the community! I feel so welcome! :') Firstly, I'll note that the color of blood in this particular case was a bigger deal than it seems outside of this fantasy realm because of...

Wow, that's really inspirational :') Thank you so much for sharing! I remember in my original brainstorm for my WIP, I had finally decided that I would write something for myself without trying to appeal to anyone else, but I don't feel like I'm doing my characters justice if the world I can't...

I have these moments where I'm just suddenly dumbfounded by a sudden question I realize I've never answered. Last night, I was thinking about what my main character's wedding ring would look like, and then I was like, "Wait, would they even have wedding rings? That's a Western tradition based...

I've been working on the prep process for my novel series for a little over a year, and I still feel like it's not even complete enough for me to build an outline on. Every time I try to outline, I run into questions that aren't answered. Every time I watch a show or read a book, I wonder...

Thanks! :D

Awesome directions! Thanks! :D

Hello! I'm kinda new here, and I don't really do many forums, so I'm still working on how to start posts ^^;; In my fantasy WIP, the primary religion worships a Mother Goddess and a "Father" type of god sort of like a combination of Hades and Zeus. There are two different temples or...