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A small contribution but have you ever heard why the Great White Shark is grey on the top and white on the bottom? One of the leading theories is that it's because if you're prey and swimming above the shark (they usually attack from beneath) then you're much less likely to notice it against...

To respond to those of you who have had questions about my magic system thus far, magic has appeared in my storyline - out of nowhere - and so the rules (although these definitely do exist) are uncovered as the story goes on. So far I've been through this traditional moves of the protagonists...

So I've been desperate to try and figure out some kind of magical combat system for the book I'm planning, but I'm finding it more difficult to come up with than anticipated. The main outline is that I would prefer it to be martial arts based, since mine is an Asian-inspired fantasy. What...

No... but, this is fantasy writing; I wouldn't get too hung up on that! Considering people can get away with having floating mountains and such, I would have no trouble believing that there was a country made of entirely sandy desert and tundra. What I would consider more important is how you...

One of the most important thing with names, for me, is being able to read and easily pronounce the damned thing. You don't want to end up like poor old John Travolta here... JOHN TRAVOLTA SAYS IDINA MENZEL @ THE OSCARS 2014! - YouTube Granted, Idina Menzel isn't terribly difficult to say...

My advice would be to do some long hard lookin' into the Ukraine/Russia/Crimea situation that's going on at the moment, from what I understand there are all kinds of cultural dilemmas at play there which seem to fit perfectly into what you're after. Borrowing from the real world isn't plagiarism.

In actual rat terms, while we're talking about gender; males (on the whole) tend to be bigger, but lazier than females (similar to humans, much?). I also read somewhere that rats give birth to a greater number of does (females) than bucks (males), something like a 60/40 split, though not huge...

You don't even need to have your main character relive the memory, depending on the notoriety of the deed or place from which they come from - whatever it is you want to look back on. An immediate example that comes to mind would be (as usual) from GoT, from the get go everyone calls Jaime...

In the simplest terms, then, that means that this 'event' of yours isn't a plot twist at all, its just a linear progression of the story. The way you deliver that will be how the story is received, kind of a similar thing to cinema, for example: In most war films, you know that there's going to...

This is becoming even more far-fetched, but is there any way she could get hold of strong magnets (possibly in the cargo?)or a strong electrical current? Sharks have a 6th sense in that they are able to detect the electrical impulse generated by the body of their prey, completely indetecable to...

I think it would be worth considering what kind of world you are basing your story in. For example, a world where grain is abundant across all parts of the nation would not suffer to greatly from a plague of locusts, but a nation with limited grain resources would suffer greatly, thousands would...

Welcome to the forums, I'm new too, hope to see you around!

That truly is an impractical helmet, all its missing is a big spike on the top. Nice drawings, keep it up.

Thanks for the welcome, hopefully I'll be able to stick around.

I'd personally recommend some of Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's 'The Edge Chronicles' if you wanted ideas on sky piracy, they're for a slightly younger audience but there's some great ideas in there and they enchanted me when I was a kid. Assuming you don't just want to blast the ship out...