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His were some of my sophomoric forays into epic fantasy. I read the first two in the break for the third book I started to edge away from it. When I went to read the fourth, I just found it to be a bad book. I think the biggest thing I took from it was to avoid pretentiousness. So much of what...

I dunno. It's certainly a little gross and more than a little off-putting. But not irredeemable. I guess I'm don't d-bag characters but "cannibal" doesn't automatically qualify a person for that category.

I guess that is good for me!

Try some stream-of-consciousness writing, as if you were typing up an autobiography. Write about your history, what writing means to you, and just type whatever comes to mind about you. While it might not become the final post, it will get you writing in a mode that is the most like your normal...

Well, I'll start with 2 since it informs all the other answers. 2. Everyone can shapeshift on P-Uea. Usually at about 3 or 4, your first transformation kicks in although the age can vary in either direction. Every transformation is...unpleasant if not explicitly "painful" but the first time is...

Well, I did some research of my own to get to this point. I was looking for a point in time for Europe where a major military defeat would have a large impact on a good part of the landmass. I figured a massive empire being soundly defeated would do that so I looked at Rome. Then, since the...

Huh, really? I guess I always conflated anything before 1000 AD with cavemen. Which is unforgivable seeing as I have taken courses and read a number of things from about 500 BC to 0 AD. They had quite a bit going on.

Thanks, I'll look further with those names. I tried to do some research on my own but (first, with the issue of choosing the right point in history to have some catastrophic happen, then shifting through all the various different groups) the scope became a bit daunting. The event affects the...

I mean, people that were paid to fight. I'm working under the idea that in the Middle Ages most people (that weren't raiders/bandits) were just tilling their farmlands. That might be false. I was wondering if there were people that just fought, even if they weren't criminals. That just traveled...

I make up my own expletives from time to time, just as a worldbuilding excersize most of the time. I will add them because people curse but I don't think I've ever used all of them. I love making up language and I frequently write fantasy or occasionally sci-fi so there is leeway to make up...

I mentioned it somewhere else in these forums but I want to write a fantastical alternate-history story set in the time. I know, because it is alternate history, I technically have a writ to change a good portion of customs but I want it to have that foundation of reality. I wanted to know...

I just finished a short story about about a man confronting himself and his abilities; I just need proof- and beta-readers. On the slate now are two more short stories. One is about an officer in a new, sci-fiey branch of law enforcement and the other is a character story about a bounty...

There aren't groups as docile as sheep. I imagine they were consumed before recorded history. The animal forms very much inform their cultures. The Bears are raiders that stockpile for the harsh winters where they just stay in their lands and, yeah, sleep. Information flow is controlled by the...

Sorry, life took precedence but I'm on break and looking to write. 1. Over about 3000 years, three clans of died out: the Elks and Great Eagles near the beginning and the Foxes near the death of the continent. The Madyabjor/Bears were essentially hired by the Ravens to kill the Great Eagles...

Anything is possible. It's just that writing an epic series of novels, even as something other than your debut work, takes a ridiculous amount of dedication.