Recent content by Hope Charlotte

Hi! I'd just like to delete this post: https://mythicscribes.com/community/threads/a-boy-and-his-sail-a-work-in-progress.24593/ I don't seem to have the option - I'm not sure why - but I'd appreciate mod help to nix it. Thanks.

I'm not at all saying that Roald Dahl is or isn't any better than any modern children's book. In fact, I'm not really sure how well his work holds up. I just don't think it's beneficial to children to censor older media. I do understand that children lack the judgement abilities of adults, but I...

I'm personally against it - not because of any 'political correctness' issue given Roald Dahl was an outspoken anti-semite and I'd be surprised if that doesn't permeate his work in some way - but because I don't think it's honest or useful to do. Children are able to engage with texts critically...

I grew up in a house without much secular music, but every now and then we'd listen to something my parents called 'party mix,' which was a 70's compilation CD. The catchiest song on there that I found just hilarious was probably Daddy Cool by Boney M. As for what I'd pass on, I'm not sure. A...

I've found that a style I really enjoy using for narrative worldbuilding is a sort of old-fashioned 19th century style. I position it like this: I am a traveller from a particular place in my world arriving at a new place. I then go into everything that person observes and interacts with, in a...

I see. In this case, this is all common knowledge in the city - or common theories, anyhow. The POV character here, Alrik, is also very inquisitive and knows the city like the back of his hand, so these overarching patterns are things that he'd observe while moving through it.

I tend to prefer analogy - for example, here's the first description of the main city of my first novel, The Ancient Wound, called Cinura. I think contrast is also really valuable He walked to the window and gazed out, opening the curtains a crack. He could see most of the city from his vantage...

I've taken a lot of inspiration from various cultures in my main world, Einea. One thing that I like to do is create 'collage cultures' initially, taking elements of cultures that have some similar material circumstances - i.e. the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego and the Inuit of Nunavut who...

Hi! My name is Hope. I just got here, and I draw things - primarily creatures for my fantasy world, Einea, and they're definitely not typical fantasy creatures. I'm not the best - I only started digital art in 2020 - but I wouldn't say I'm the worst. I'll show everything here in ascending order...

Thank you! So do I! Thank you as well! I wasn't sure if that was polite linking outside of the self-promotion section. I haven't quite gotten around to Hyperion yet, but I definitely plan to. I'm really not a fan of Dune, funnily enough - I found it a slog. So we'll see what I think!

My favourite series at this point is probably The Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham, while my favourite individual book is probably Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Hi! My name's Hope C. Dixon, and I'm... well, yeah, an author from Australia. Specifically Perth, the capital of Western Australia, the second-largest country subdivision after the Sakha Republic/Yakutia in eastern Russia. I'm primarily interested in fantasy and science fiction - I'd say about...