Recent content by legacyblade

Hello everyone, I've run into a logistics problem when setting my fantasy story in an archipelago. In particular, the story takes place on an island home to an unusual ecology (silver trees, crystal mushrooms, orange leaves, vines that act like boa constrictors, etc.) I know I'm going to need to...

Glad to help :D I always like when people think through their magic and how it'll work like this rather than just saying "meh, it's magic. It doesn't need to make sense", so I'm happy to give a couple ideas. I hope your story works well, if u need an alpha reader down the road, send me a PM or...

Ya, it's possible to fake emotions. Best way to do it is to concentrate on an event that triggers strong emotions in your mind. I'm a sociopath, so I do this to try and make myself have the proper emotions at the right time (like if someone punches one of my friends, I think of the guy who stole...

There's a book on the subject that I've had highly recommended to me Amazon.com: World-Building (Science Fiction Writing) (9781582971346): Stephen L. Gillett, Ben Bova: Books (no, that's not an affiliate link) I haven't got myself a copy yet, but from what I've heard, it talks about how...

Must resist making jokes about tearing an anus...

Glad to be of some help :D To be honest I'm kinda tired of characters always awakening their magic in "oh noes, certain doooom!" moments, so I've been doing this kind of brain storming a lot in my own stories, lol (My favorite awakening of magic moment is a guy is trying to steal a painting...

Oh wow. I didn't know that. Well I guess I can factor ideas about life on other planets into religion in world building :D Gives me more options. I really should study history more, it'd help give me insight into smaller things like this. I wish venus was that cool. Plus it'd help with...

Like what everyone else has said, it does depend on the story. It'd be a waste of time and effort to write enough history to fill up a few text books if it's for a stand alone 10 page short story. Heck, this might even be too much writing for an epic fantasy (though that depends). You just have...

I was meaning that they wouldn't have the same concept of planet and life on other planets, and would just lump together all celestial bodies in terms of consideration. I don't think we ever viewed mars as being just like another country, but I could be wrong on that. That's just my personal...

I should rephrase what I meant. I was saying that they're just kinda lumped together as celestial bodies, even if they do have a distinction between stars and planets. As far as I know (which I will admit is very little) on the history of astronomy, life on other planets and inhabitable other...

My theory on world names is that they should be short, since there usually isn't space travel in fantasy (and thus they'd have no real concept of planet like our own, they'd all just be kinda lumped together as stars). So just make up a fancy short word that means dirt or world in the language...

Thanks for the greet. And I'm glad you guys don't have anything about long wordy posts. I'm not all that great about being brief (it bugs people on RPG making forums :P), so I'm glad to be among equally wordy people. And I'll take you up on that, with the posting. I hope to make a lot of...

Unless the inhabitants in your world have space travel, they'd have no reason to name their planet. They wouldn't really have the concept on a planet. They'd have a word for "world" and a word for "dirt". If you want to give your world a name, use whatever the inhabitants would call dirt or the...

I agree that the easiest way to have a magical ability awaken is in an extremely dangerous or traumatic moment. We've seen it done tons of times, and I think it works just fine. It makes sense. However, if you want to avoid this trope, you could have him be aware that he can really easily...

I googled "Fantasy Writing Forum" and this was on the first page. I checked out a few, this was one of the ones I liked (it looked pretty :P)