Recent content by Jes

...Might be just a little bit scared now. D: Haha!

Thanks for the welcome, everyone! I appreciate it! And I am not scared yet, Mister DarknessRising Guy!

I hit 14k last night. I will definitely make my goal of 15k by tonight! I'm hoping to hit 50k by the 20th!

Great job, Butterfly! I technically wrote 4,174 words today if you count what I erased of what I wrote yesterday. Worst part about NaNoWriMo for me is getting around the "fixing things" instinct. I'm terrible with that. But I think it turns out better for me when I give in a little.

Wonderful to meet you, Zach! Welcome aboard! You sound like my kind of writer. I look forward to perhaps tossing ideas around with you. Take a load off and look around. You'll like what you see. I know I did!

The best part about magic and the Fantasy genre in general is that you have incredible freedom to create your own magic and ideas, or to mold what is known into something new and just as exciting. I say take it away and have fun with it!

My NaNo, The Poison King, is a traditional high fantasy novel, set in a world where there are only four races - two of which are of my own creation. A synopsis: On the NaNoWriMo site, I'm simply known as Jes Peterson.

I personally don't think there's too much forest there, no. It doesn't have to be a tropical island to be covered in trees, after all! As it is now, it even looks a little dry, which can add to the fact that it's not tropical at all. I'm a fan of small island chains, too. Most people tend to...

I take my biggest protagonist and antagonist characters and write up detailed character exploration sheets for them. I lay out their physical attributes, their strengths, their weaknesses, what drives them, what they fear, their religion - anything that may come up in a story. I don't ever want...

I'm more than happy to offer some insight into making maps. I'll go through the World Building forum when I get home from work, too. Uploaded my latest map to the cartography gallery, in case anyone is curious about my style. :)

Hand-drawn and created in Photoshop, Lai'enalai is my biggest and most in-depth Fantasy setting. It is where my next novel is set. There are no distance indicators in this image, but that's only because this is purely for aesthetics!

Hah! I'm sure there are plenty of things, yes! Not for lack of trying, though. Thanks!

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I had an English teacher who wrote and published a Fantasy novel while I was still in high school. Every one of my friends and even some of the teachers excitedly recommended it to me and I was more than happy to pick it up and see what my esteemed instructor had come up with. I remembered...

I have to admit that I haven't read many of Terry Brooks' or Terry Pratchett's books, but I've read several of Terry Goodkind's books. The first two of the Sword of Truth series were okay, but it seemed like Goodkind couldn't get past his main plot hook: betrayal. It seemed like every book was a...