Recent content by Rufanacious

As others have said, I think it depends how complicated you want to go. I know people can get pretty deep into this stuff. Personally, this: Worldbuilding by Map has been helping me ENORMOUSLY just lately. (!!!!) One thing I think is really helpful about this guide is that it refers...

Oooh, that's just dastardly!! A second trap door!! :eek: However you could also, I think, un-goof-ify it. With a bit of work. If you wanted it to be taken seriously, and not be comedic. The first step I'd take would be to get rid of the chair - I read somewhere there was an ornate rug under a...

But surely we're straying from the definition of 'mentor', then. I mean, a young child in a story could be the one who teaches the hero an important moral lesson, or even turns their whole outlook around and so on... but I wouldn't classify that role as a 'mentor' at all. @glutton - Although I...

Maturity schmaturity. Fan: "I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?" Neil Gaiman's response: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." As for word usage - I think you're being enormously literal there, Terry!! I mean, do you really read novels that way?? Would...

To me, describing someone's eyes as 'fractured' makes me feel as though they're portraying some shattering emotional trauma the character's been through. Same, to some extent, even with the broken glass imagery. Gut reaction - fractured eyes are eyes that have seen too much, the person looking...

Fact-check: Your story contains characters on an adventure (to use a somewhat oversimplified phrase) in the "Real World" - who sometimes have dreams in which they enter the "Dream World" - plus a character who ONLY exists in the "Dream World". Yes? My first question would be, how much of...

If only!! The trouble is, you start in on a project thinking "oh, I'll just hash out the rudimentary shape of the magical system, then fill in the scenes as I go - it's magic after all - it's all about doing the impossible!" ... and then find yourself coming up against hurdle after hurdle...

It can be tricky though - did you mean tan? or black? or anything in between. This has me thinking of the description "dark". One of my least favourite descriptions, when it's on its own, because sometimes it means dark-haired, sometimes it means dark-skinned. I never know which. (I feel 'dark'...

If you wanted to have your character have a vision of the coming battle - and wanted to start with the battle - and wanted to start with a tipping point - you could have the character wake from the vision (or snap out of it, or however they return to consciousness) - to find it's already...

Ahoy! Officially NOT another Australian, here! :happy: ...by which I mean, hello from New Zealand. (Okay, terrible joke xD) I really love discussing writing with other writers, and don't get a lot of chance to do so, so I'm really excited to explore these forums!! However my main...