Recent content by Thalian

I am trying to determine a countries population size, as well as their military size, and keep it realistic. I don't want to have a country say the size of England to be able to field an army of 800,000, it's just not reasonable. I have been hitting Google hard for about 4 hours, and while I...

I am writing a post-apocalyptic short story where the main character believes (I'm not sure if he is or is not either) he is the last remaining human on earth. In short, the world had a catastrophe, blah blah blah, he watched all of his loved-ones die and everyone else die, including his dog...

For myself, I try and focus on just writing and making it as presentable as possible the first time around, but when I'm going at a good clip that's obviously not going to happen, however I have provided a solid base to work from. Mid-writing I do not do any editing in case I notice a plot...

What I found was that I never really decided why he was evil, just said I needed an evil character so here we go. But now I look forward to writing about him more than any other character, even though he was originally a minor villain. But I'm still only about three-quarters of the way done my...

They only time I have encountered a problem with similar names was in Paul S. Kemp's Twilight War Saga. Riven and Rivalen are really similar, and the scenes where both characters were involved became quite confusing.

I'm a combination of both. I make lists of goals and events that I want to get done, but they are very vague. I think this really helps my characters develop, especially one of my villians who over the course of my writings has developed very grey areas, and I can definitely see him switching...

I have two main characters that are twins that I introduced simultaneously, so I don't see how it could be a problem as long as you introduce them both equally and give both equal "air-time" like you said.

I think the reason it hasn't become fully maintsream yet is because most fantasy novels contain a lot of weird creatures and settings that would require extensive amounts of CG and special effects. Also, the amount of crappy, low budget fantasy works that are out there no doubt have tarnished...

Happy birthday!

It is just so much easier to relate to a fighter, for myself anyways. If you are a reader of RA Salvatore's novels it is apparent that he hates spellcasters just as much as anybody judging by the amount of powerful mages and whatnot he has killed off over the years.

This is about as good an answer as can be given.

Cool outline!

The way I did it was I created my world and brainstormed the beginning of my story, and as the first few chapters unfolded I brought in characters and if they felt like they should be important then I started to develop them into main characters. Now, halfway done I have main characters fleshed...

The way I see it, it could go both ways. Either it is pushed aside because it is very similar to Harry Potter and/or other works, or it is gobbled up greedily because people could be looking for something that is built upon the same vein as Harry Potter. But like Elder the Dwarf said, I would...

I wish I could put that much time into writing, but at this point in my life its not going to happen!