Recent content by Meka

Okay, here's how much I love the Old Kingdom series. See my avatar ... the charter mark ... just had it tattoo'd onto my back :P x

I tend to use loads of races and have even made up a few myself. I use Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Wizards (which I class as a different race entirely), Goblins, Trolls, Kish (invention), Khraal (invention), Limech (invention.) Each of these have very different attributes, beliefs, homelands...

I've read Nick Sayre Myrddin, it's amazing! So well done! I'm really looking forward to Clariel and the other book, whatever it may be ... it's Garth Nix, I'll love it. If you haven't already read it may I reccommend reading Shade's Children. Awesome, awesome book!

Personally, I don't think you have to have long chunks of prose to describe a long journey. It works sometimes, for example if your characters are travelling through a particularly interesting area of your land and you feel you can describe it well and make it necessary to your main plot...

Hey Johnny! I've asked to join the group :D I haven't looked into Norse mythology a great deal but am certainly very interested and have been inspired by bits I've heard. Hoping to learn more :). Together, me and you WILL make having groups popular ;)!

Haha! Tolkienites it is ;) .. I'm not really sure how groups work, I just saw that there are no groups and decided to be wild and make my own XD

The oxygen deprivation idea is very similar to Arya's torture in Eragon, when her food is poisoned by Durza, the poison then preventing her from using her magic. I must say though your idea works much better, in Eragon, when he is captured Eragon simply stops eating and drinking long enough to...

Yeah I loved Lirael, it's my favourite of the trilogy; the beginning made me sympathise with her and the steady build up of her confidence as she meets Dog and starts work at the library pulled me in even closer. I desperately wanted her to do well, wanted her to feel as if she fit in! I met Nix...

What I tend to do is introduce the story with only a little description, more fast paced and gripping to draw the reader in, then after the first chapter or first few pages, the story slows down a little, gives an explanation to what just happened, describes the character, what he / she is...

I tend to describe hair colour for only main characters, otherwise its unnecessary. What I do is I describe the colour, rather than the hair ... if that makes sense. I try to think of the connotations of a certain colour, for example, black: darkness, evil, mystery, unknowing; and I would use...

I adore the Old Kingdom Series, it's one of the most fantastically imaginative things I've ever read, the characters are great, the monsters even better and the use of the 'Charter' and 'Free Magic' really is a work of genius. Although I thought these books were some of the best I've ever read...

I had my characters name their own world. By putting myself into their position and their culture I found it pretty easy to come up with names. For example, in one story I have been working on, a group of elves find a large island and when they claim it for themselves they name it Ilen-Ulmor...

I personally don't think its crucial to have a likeable main character. In fact, I think having a very unfavourable character as one of the main characters in a story can be really interesting. For example, Inquisitor Glokta in Joe Abercrombie's The First Law series is one of the most sinister...

Hi everyone! My name's Arran, I'm a seventeen year old from the UK who's spent his whole life so far reading and writing fantasy. I've finished writing two books so far (started many more), both of which were back five or so years ago and are of pretty poor quality, but I am currently writing...

Revolution I believe that digital book publishing will grow massively and that our wonderful hardbacks and paperbacks will decrease. The pleasure of owning a physical printed book is up against the sheer convenience and accessibility of the e reader format. Also a generation is growing up that...