Recent content by rktho

I use made-up ones, but I can only come up with a good fantasy swear once in a blue moon. The best I have are shnat (basically, sh*t) and barschut (dammit) which are from separate languages, so only my bilingual characters use both regularly. On a side note, I have a character named Javuk who...

Hey Steerpike! How are things at the other site?

Yeah, that sounds good.

I have a character who lives in the carcass of a gigantic war beast he's turned into a tent. I'm heavily leaning towards a giant elephant creature, but if 'oliphaunt' is like 'hobbit' for fantasy writers, I could call it a war mammoth, or else choose a different beast to gigantify (taking...

Well, their "god" is a human, but they don't know what he looks like. They only know that everything that ever happens is written into existence by him. He's called the Rishnaran, which means writer. Actually, my GSV saw the Rishnaran's world in a vision and saw that they have the power to...

Something a dragon could feasibly encounter and (if prepared) fight if it actually existed. Something a dragon would find as they were travelling.

Oh, it'd be up there with the really big ones for sure. The biggest dragons in my story are twice the size of Kodiak bears. I'm not sure anything that isn't absolutely gigantic would inspire awe in them.

So I'm writing a story in which all the characters are dragons and I had an interesting idea. What if the dragons had a creature of legend that was different across all dragon cultures but possessed enough similar traits to be recognized as the same legend? A creature larger than the lives of...

Crazy how this article pops up the same week I'm taking a law camp at BYU. In light of what I've learned, this is very interesting to read.

Google Drive doesn't seem to have an option for spacing as far as I can see. I'll look into the Word solution. If I don't switch to Word, I'll definitely use it to finalize the manuscript. Meantime, if anyone has a Drive solution, feel free to bring it up.

I’ve decided to start typing my drafts in industry manuscript format and I’ve noticed starting new chapters is a bit complicated to execute, at least as far as I can figure out. Apparently each new chapter is supposed to begin a third of the way down. How does one do this without hitting space...

Thank you, CupOfJoe, very cool!

Actually, I'm pretty sure dragons would be just as sensitive to touch as humans. I did a Google just now and reptiles don't have less sensation of touch than other animals. But yeah, the wings would definitely be more sensitive. I like the idea of Dav fidgeting with his wings and/or tail. I'm...

I haven’t read it yet but I will after posting this reply. It looks super helpful! I have Asperger’s myself, but since I write my characters as neurotypicals (crazy how we’re how we’re able to write normal characters when we can’t understand normal people in real life) I’m afraid if I don’t...

In my book, all my characters are dragons. They live in cities dotted about wherever there is a convenient resource-- a river, game for hunting, both, etc. My protagonist's cousin Davard is different from other dragons. He has high functioning Asperger's syndrome, but nobody in this medieval...