Recent content by JBryden88

I have giants. Hell, my WIP is about giants. Giants are my heroes AND my villains. Giants in my world are creatures of magic in the sense that they bargained with the spirits of their ancestors for the strength to overthrow their enemies. They became the giants. I still haven't settled on their...

Giants. I feel like most fantasy settings that use them tend to use them as monsters/villains and nothing else. I've always been a fan of the barbarian archetype but I was inspired to write a story about giants as a people, as a culture, and to show their clash with humans in a way that...

Admittedly I read the OP and skipped to the end. I'm not a woman, but I've never read Dune and I've never and will never finish LOTR. One of the things that bothered me about Tolkien's work was that it read like a fictional encyclopedia half the time, and when it got to the actual storytelling...

I tend to ignore prose rules. Maybe that will get me in trouble down the line. I don't know, I just know that I write in the voice I'm comfortable writing in. I'll go back and edit unnecessary words in my edits/rewrites, but I also feel the need to tell my story naturally and not rethink the...

Beginning and ending. Now granted, nobody should take my advice because I have not finished a single project... I have one completed rough draft, and a bunch of incomplete drafts of different projects. That said, I always plan how I want a series to end, and how it begins. The rest I let happen...

Well. I have a whole fantasy world to consider, and thus multiple societies. So in my main project I focus on a race of giants divided into multiple clan kingdoms. Of the five kingdoms, only one of them looks down on "disabled" people and mostly because they're very nomadic and very violent -...

So in my WIP, it depends on the race and culture. For my humans it's fairly traditional medieval. They have injust systems and inherent sexism (though the sexism takes other forms.) For the giants gender doesn't matter. As far as anyone's concern the difference is appearance and the...

I'm a huge fan of taking known fantasy races that sometimes are given undeserved treatment and making them the stars. (It's one of the reasons I'm a fan of the Warcraft franchise - they took orcs and made them the stars arguably.) In my case I've settled on Giants. Either portrayed as too big...

Love it. Also hi guys. Been awhile since I've been here :D

I'm asking on behalf of a dear friend of mine who is building her world. She's setting it on a "super earth" - it's about 5 times the size of our world. How big would a continent need to be (compared to say, the size of our world's continents) in order to have the two ends of the continent...

I loved Tim Severin's novels. That said, I'd love to see some historical fiction for the Vikings pre-conversion times. Where they aren't the villains.

As it turns out we took it to Staples and it got done and emailed and all! Thanks for the tips anyway!

I wasn't quite sure where to put this but I'll ask it anyway! Whilst on vacation I've been spending the week with a writer friend of mine. I helped her with her map - we got big poster board sheets and she sketched it out. Now, we are looking to figure out .... is there a way to get it...

I think in fantasy there's room for all kinds of women, just as there are for men. Heroic, feminine, masculine, gay, straight, cowardly, good, evil, etc. I've got alot of projects all in various stages, and one thing I do is I base it off of the culture I'm writing about. The culture that is...

So, for the past few years, and this being the final year, there's this show called Spartacus. Not fantasy but it DOES go larger then life, ala 300. Anyone else watch it? I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor from tonight. Anyone who knows the history will know what I speak of as the...