Recent content by SarahM.

If your gods are "real" then you have to decide to they actually interact with their people or have a hands off approach. Having your gods interact regularly, physically with their people can be fun and leads to interesting situations as some newer fantasy novels have shown. If they're hands off...

There is a Yoruba village on the coast of South Carolina. You can find their website here: official website of Oyotunji African Village and Orisa-Vodou Spiritual Lineage You could probably contact them for more information the queen is a great source of African history and legend (we see her on...

I usually hit up the site 20000-names.com and click through until I get something I like or at least something I can tweak. It's pretty good and has the meaning of quite a few names I couldn't find on baby name sites.

Cool, Phil. I've always wanted to visit Japan. I'm born and bred in South Carolina and thanks for the welcome.

Thank you! This is exactly why I started my blog. There are so many other fascinating mythical races in the world that need to have some light shed upon them! I just did an article on vampires and came up with 15 so far that I'd never, ever heard of and one even sneaked its way into this year's...

It all depends on the time period and the culture for me. I'm currently writing a story where one half takes place in a "Roman" empire at it's height and the other half takes place in a "West African" island. Both places have palaces, but that means two completely different things, even within...

Hi there, I'm not just new to the forums, but pretty new to the whole mythic scribes site. I really like what I've seen so far so I thought I'd jump in. I'm a writer out of the Southern USA and I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone. Well, not everyone, that's impossible. At least...