Recent content by Mithnen

Oh yeah, the Earth Sea series. When someone told me many years later that Ged was a person of colour my reaction was what? Really? I didn't notice, to me they were just good books. So to be told about 15 years later that Ged wasn't anglo-saxon threw me for a loop.

Batman: The Animated Series, there's an episode called 'Over The Edge' when it seems that Batgirl's been killed by The Scarecrow and the fallout from that event leads Jim Gordon to seek out Batman and incarcerate/murder him. That's a really dark and serious subject for a children's cartoon and...

Yeah, there is a tendency for some authors to gloss over the nastier side of human nature, parents do it ostensibly to protect their children but it presupposes that children are stupid and most kids aren't. While I understand the concept of not wanting to upset your child, I'm not sure it...

You probably remembered the best bit! LOL! I can't explain it, by the third/fourth book I felt like I was reading the same story, so I was often skipping whole chapters just to get toe the end.

I know the feeling! I'd completely forgotten about the HP books - although I hated The Half Blood Prince, Harry was such a horrible teenage brat throughout the whole book (and I didn't think much of his friends either.) I quite like the first two or three Sword of Shannara books and then I...

Yeah, I'm with you. The Terry Pratchett books were just so spot on. However, I also have a fondness for the Douglas Hill series regarding the character of Keill Randor. Galactic Warlord, Deathwing Over Veynaa, Day of the Starwind, Planet of the Warlord. It depends on the writing, and...

Thanks for that. The hero is a young 20-somethng (haven't quite decided on exact age yet) male, very fit, goes on runs, walks a great deal, isn't the best at healthy eating - tends to snack on say a chocolate bar rather than a piece of fruit, but generally eats fairly well.. Works as a...

Hi Everyone, Sorry not to be around for a long while, I was writing something that didn't go as planned and then I became really ill and writing became unfeasibly hard. Finally got myself back on track and then I was working on the computer when our cat leapt on me, I was holding a large glass...

So do we all have an inherent belief in 'Magic' as a force, even in a Christian society?

Well, I freely admit that I'm a little strange. I make my own books which I then handwrite my stories in and then using Speech-to-Text software I transfer them to my laptop. It's a Toshiba and I have no idea how old it is.

That's cool! After Lucifer perchance (not the series, that was his title before the fall)

I have a quick question. I like writing Fantasy. But I've never really got involved with all the world-building like Tolkien or Martin; I've simply used other eras and used them rather than actually creating a world. My question is: Should I seriously consider creating a world, and if so are...

Okay, that gives me a better place to start. So, everything I was told by this other person regarding the use of 'nepenthe' was either completely made up or they garnered their information from an unreliable source? Thanks for the article on Medieval Medicine. Were they aware of something...

If you're setting a story in the equivalent of medieval england, how would they have treated pain. I know they had laudanum and something I've read about called 'nepenthe' but what about mild/moderate pain? Did they use willow bark and how did they use it? And what's the difference between an...

Hi, my name's Kara, I'm a burgeoning writer in the Fantasy genre. I saw this site online and thought it would be good to join - particularly for those niggling questions that friends and family just can't answer!