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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Discovery mapping.Once I have a map I generally take the attitude 'this is your world, deal with it,' and build the narrative to match it. Just as I would... -
Insolent Lad replied to the thread 'real' names in Fantasy Settings..As in his pseudo-Chinese culture with Chinese-sounding names, he had to throw in someone named McSweeney.
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Tall Dwarfs....One could always have an adopted human who thinks he's a dwarf, like Carrot Ironfoundersson in the Discworld novels. And Moorcock had a...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.I finally chose to ignore piracy of my books altogether and followed Cory Doctorow's example of giving away the ebooks. If nothing else...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread How do you name your Faerie/Little People ?.Ah, Asimov did a story with fairies as large insects, who ruled the world way, way back in time.
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread How do you name your Faerie/Little People ?.Actual 'little people' --- sprites and brownies and such -- have only shown up in my children's books and I went with the conventional...
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I write "hard fantasy." I made a career out of writing fantasy that elevates suspension of disbelief into plausible deniability...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread So does anyone know any websites where I can find art?.Pixabay tends to be my first stop for art. Yeah, it has AI slop too but one can choose not to have it shown.
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Fiction vs realistic.My fantasy is as realistic as I can make it. That way it's more believable. And I do write what is generally considered realism too...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Do you have any 'critters' for your stories?.There is a mix of fauna (and flora, for that matter) in my primary fantasy cycle. Some pretty much identical to what we know here, some...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Most recent books you bought..I got hold of the entire Discworld series and have been working my way through them (with an occasional break to avoid Pratchett...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread How do you feel about the 'classic' villain monologue about their plans?.Yes, it works great (at least sometimes) on the stage where a character is explaining his inner thoughts not to another character but to...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread What is your favorite cartoon character voice?.Woody Woodpecker, because I can do the laugh.
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread The Tragedy of Disparate Lifespans: How Society and Law Adapt to Human-Monster Romance.That sounds a bit like how mana operates among Oceanic peoples.
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Maps and more maps. Not just maps of the world, but maps of a particular city, a map of a building within that city, and even a map of a...
