Recent content by LittleOwlbear

Yeah, he did refuse for a long time, but he wouldn't had a realistic chance to step out of it. Being made responsible for a life path, and even saving the world, you didn't choose for yourself, is a trope that doesn't sit right with me. Of course a story shouldn't just be tropes in a row, but...

I mean... I do have issues with the "the one true king"-trope, because it states that people need one true ruler and it's written in destiny that there has to be a monarchy in this story. It's really romanticizing monarchy in some way. The issue with the trope lies within the implications that...

That's one of the beautiful things in a fantasy world: if you don't have the same societal structures going on like you do in the real world, just writing people is easier. There doesn't need to be "well, men are just like that, they never talk about feelings" to write men with emotional...

I love seeing and creating male characters that are not stoic, masculine guy. There are some that I like at least, but when I think about male characters I love, then I think of expressive and emotional ones first, and aren't shying away from typical feminine traits either. Whether they are...

My characters are not me, but they still come from my imagination, my worldviews, my experiences and preferences etc... It tells a lot about an author how they portray a character, who's different from them in gender, sexuality, profession, personality, preferences etc... That also could be...

I have this sometimes, especially with little magical, technological and cultural details. Like... what if I didn't think of a little spell now that could be included into the world and people's everyday life? What if come up with some new cultural practices when I'm 100 k in? But then I also...

In parts, when it's necessary for the story, there can happen some dark themes, but there is enough of nihilistic Game of Thrones-fantasy outside that has ironically a pretty one-sided on humamity, while it portrays itself as more realistic. I've been told multiple occasions that I need more...

I'm not into "I'm not like other elves" either, if it strays away too much from the original concept. You don't have to make them edgy to not write all of them like stucked up and self-righteous hippies. In some groups, like Reddit writing groups, there is so much hate against elves going...

In my world medicine and healing magic intervene. Healers can only heal what they understand, so illnesses like cancer, lot of virus etc. are still a plague to humans and shorter-living races. The better you understand a body function on cellular level, the more likely and the more efficient...

pmmg That was more of a theoretical thought of mine: you can't know who the person really is, if you don't know them well, so you don't even know for sure: is my opponent a woman or not?

Why not? I don't care much for chronological worldbuilding since it's not our world and people, who expect a copy-paste... well, that's on them / their preference. And if Frieren can eat burger, which is absolutely fine (they have dough and meat, so why not), people can eat pizza in my steampunk...

My calendar is a cycle. Once in a millenia seals break and ancient forces get free. So the calendar is basically a countdown and the world prepares towards the year 1000. It has to come up in the story. For months and days: there are four months aka seasons in temperate climate. Some regions...

That's alright. I too have a slow pace with slice of life scenes inbetween etc. What's important is that you don't let your reader believe they get a fast-paced, action-packed story by setting wrong expectations. My story starts slow and it stays that way at like 60 % of the time. If I were to...

There had been great isekais like 12 Kingdoms, Escaflowne, Magic Knight Rayearth, Inuyasha (if you wanna count that), Digimon, etc... Spirited Away too is an isekai. Most modern isekais are more cash grabs without the creativity behind them, imo. But in general it doesn't need fixing, it needs...

While I'm writing, I only think about the character and what they think and feel, not about any reader. So it doesn't come to my mind how different POVs could affect the reader. I just stick to a POV as long as it changes. Mostly it's 40 % my protagonist, 40 % my male lead (they are changing...