Recent content by InsanityStrickenWriter

It should be noted that most fairytale stories were once thought for adults rather than children (poisonous apples and evil stepsisters...). Don't be overly afraid with what books you give him, I'm a coward but none of the books that I read when I was younger affected me much, only films and...

Hah, sounds like something I'd write. I love characters that can just flip. A God of Nature that can spaz out and go around killing to make lots of new life out of old life as its extreme might be an idea (eg. kill off an entire village of people who then become food for lots and lots of lovely...

I'd recommend GIMP, it's open-source (free), and fairly easy to learn. It has layers, paintbrushes, and plenty of filters to play around with. Can also mess around with contrast/brightness, etc. Obviously it's not Photoshop, but unless you want to pirate, (or have the money), then GIMP is the...

He could just give the rat severe tooth pain. I don't think he'd be too eager to chew a great many walls with that :p

It definately would sound interesting to me. Sounds wonderfully sinister. Who's perspective are you going to be writing from? My hope would be that you'll write from the harpies' side, which would definately add a lot more of a unique element than writing from the human tribe, which is more...

True, that's partly why I said it depended on the style. But even serious stories can do with a bit of comedy every now and then, in my opinion. And the narrator could simply find the whole thing incredibly irritating as would the reader, rather than pointing and laughing at it. So long as the...

Sheila, reading your posts from my position of lurkdom is really urging me to read the Neverending Story. :p On topic- I don't think even believability matters too much, depending on the style you're writing with. If you can get the narration to point and laugh at the ridiculousness with the...

Favourite moment- Got my master destruction spell, headed to the nearest inn, and, er, tested my shiny new spell. Second favourite moment, remembering that I had been given a thunder storm shout from the main quest, letting it loose over Whiterun, and chasing the townspeople down with fireballs...

I've been playing a few weeks now, as a High Elf, sneaking up on people with invisibility and then dual casting firebolt to stagger them till death :) Wearing dragon-scale armour, enchanted to remove the cost of destruction and restoration completely. Also have a set of elf armour to remove the...

I just use Wordpad for note files. It's simple and doesn't pester me about grammar and spelling, but it's not so simple as to be notepad, where it'll just keep typing horizontally into infinity without my say-so. :p

My story's MC mentor hasn't actually been written in yet, but I plan for him to be a fat, greying drunk. I'm sure he'll be a great mentor though...

Anyone noticed how when the cliche dark lords are finally killed, it tends to lead to the cliche result of the sudden disappearence of all of his vast, loyal armies? :p ! I actually really like my current story/world I'm working on, but I'm really tempted to write something along those lines...

I like my evil sprinkled with fake kindness and quirky clothing. A quirky name is good too. :)

Ha, I didnt even get anywhere near to Chapter 32 of Eye of the World :p I've had at least four attempts at reading the thing over the last year or so, but each is only slightly less tedious than the last and I can't be assed now. Similarily, the Lord of the Rings trilogy was a choir, but I...

I've been doing most of my writing in school recently- which isn't much :p It's not a useful enviroment to work in, as apart from mates wanting to talk, (how inconsiderate!), one mate also has the tendency to nick my notepad and try to read it. Luckily my handwriting is illegible but still...