Recent content by Ice Spider

Lol, nice thread title! Welcome! :)

I think you're talking about MP, not magic, but I do think it's a cool idea. :P

Absolutely it's OK, and I can even think of some series that have done it, like The Kingkiller Chronicle and the Dragon Age series (video games). This is a good point. Love the examples you mentioned. I would add that even within "classical" monotheism, you have more strict monotheistic...

Writing can also be a means of expression. Sometimes we need to express a feeling or an idea for its own sake. It could be a snapshot of a strong emotional state at a certain period of time, or something we've envisioned "just so" and want to get down before the spirit leaves us, so we can...

I empathize with you completely man, the same thoughts go through my head all the time. I posted another thread along these lines recently. I don't think I'm the most talented writer that ever lived, but personally I choose to look at these things in the other way...there are authors out...

Ditto starconstant and the guy who agreed with her. It's a bit of a cliche, but that's not a bad thing, because it happens in RL a lot too.

I say go for it! I love to see variety in the fantasy genre beyond the standard Northern Europe thing...isn't going to creative new worlds what fantasy is all about? I think magic could work with guns, though you might be best to keep it subtle (like mind manipulation and things like that).

I dunno...I think they paid a pretty big advance for Eragon and the Sword of Truth series. (Maybe you think those books aren't terrible either? They seem to be almost universally reviled on internet forums, especially the Eragon series, but of course they have their share of fans). I always...

I write mostly for myself, yeah. The novel I'm finishing right now I'm not sure if I'll release, just because it's so dear to me. But if if enough RL people read it and actually liked it I might consider putting it out there. As you can probably tell, if I were to be honest, there is some fear...

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I know what you mean about the pen name. My first and last name are both really common. My initials sound pretty cool though (not to mention fantasy-ish) so I've thought of publishing under them perhaps, or just using a pen name. Like you also said, I think it would...

Good question - don't know if I'll have the courage to share my crappy poetry but I think it would be a great idea to have a section dedicated to this!

Personally, I'm not the least bit afraid of rejection letters. Everyone gets those. Honestly, I wouldn't care if no mainstream publisher ever accepted me, so long as I showed my work to other people and I saw they got some genuine enjoyment out of it. But when I see people slamming an author...

Well, I wouldn't turn to one too soon...as the above poster said, the fun of fantasy is getting to use your imagination. :) If you're really stuck and you don't mind doing something more stereotypical, "ai" "y" "w" "l" "r" "a" "u" "th" "ar" "e (with the accent that makes it say "ay")" are all...

I actually do love a lot of "mainstream fiction" and non-fiction. I just like reading fantasy too. It offers something no other genre can - an escape into another world. Though I might be a bit of a coward and a hypocrite. When I mention I like to do creative writing (to people I don't know...

Absolutely not, that's a different variation on the trope (you can probably find something along those lines in spy stories, though there it would probably be the powerful daughter of a mob boss and the hero would hem and haw about the morality of rescuing her, but ultimately would because she...