Recent content by Son of John

Thank you Reaver for the warm welcome. This place is great, I am glad to have found this lovely community.

Life getting in the way is a major factor for me, but the worst problem is that I am kind of lazy, my mind never stays in one place. For years I always flick between a "Science Fiction Mood" where I have a story I want to write about space travel; and then I could change to a "Medieval Fantasy"...

I don't mind the standard fantasy elements as a reader, but as a writer I want to do something slightly different, but not too different to make it too confusing. In my story I am not going to have dwarves and elves as such, they will be variations of humans that sort have the cliché...

In the book I am beginning to write, magic will be used only by the gifted and the strong willed (someone used an athlete analogy that I liked :) ). It will take extensive training of the mind, and will tire a person out when cast. I haven't yet handled the details yet such as the types of magic...

I went to Somerset in the UK a few months ago, that is a great place to be inspired. There are valleys, hills and forests to explore, complete with little landmarks that have given me some ideas in world building. Highly recommend it, but you may need more than one trip, you can't explore all of...

Hello there fellow Disciples of the Internet. I have travelled far and wide to and found these forums from the soothsayer named Google. I am a young(ish) writer who dreams up ideas every day, either building on the fantasy realm in my head or a completely new idea that is outside of the box...