Recent content by thetraveler

I really like this idea. I'm probably going to use it in some aspect.

I think you may have misread it... I just didn't emphasize the starving aspect of the ice demons enough. It's more like they appear they could be beautiful, but the fact that they look like they haven't had any sustenance in months kind of ruins that.

Unfortunately, no. My art skills are... Interesting.

I actually do have a reason. The main characters sort of purposefully start one... That's pretty much how it works.

Demons and wraiths. Two races that tend to be a bit cliched in my opinion. Here's my spin on them. To understand them, you need to know a bit about the theology of my world. There are two gods, Arian and the Darkness. Arian is a god of order, a benevolent god. The Darkness is the god of...

This. And again, the less you see, the more frightening it is.

Hadn't quite figured that out. They're encountered multiple times, but the main characters never have the occasion to venture into a hive/aren't that stupid. I wanted to have a queen, but I recently read 'The Edge Chronicles', and adding that to their social structure felt to much like one of...

So I'm in the process of creating a few unique and hopefully original monster races for my world. Here's one, tell me what you think, whether or not it's good enough to be a race or if I should toss it. They're called glimmers. Their exact form is uncertain, but they appear to be a...

IHMO, remove the antennae. They seemed creepy enough until you mentioned that. In film, monsters tend to lose their scariness when you show them, I imagine it would be the same for writing. The less of a solid idea of how they look they have, the more the reader will use their imagination to...

Damn, son. That's awesome. I've studied others myself... You ever had any experience with Krav Maga?

I love martial arts. It's a shame I don't have a home dojo anymore... What style do you do? I did MMA and TKD for 5 years.

Anyone else here have any hobbies completely unrelated to writing, that actually take a bit of dedication to have as a hobby? For me, it would be lifting... I got into weightlifting and powerlifting last summer. Anyone else have any big hobbies completely unrelated to writing, or am I alone...

I'm open to chat, too... On any subject, though I don't enjoy theological debates because they just end up with people getting pissed off at each other. Same with politics, though if you really want to...

So, I'm on the last leg of my writing journey for Book 1 in my series, and I am not doing well as far as the title goes. I have several candidates, and your input on which ones sound the most interseting would make you most likely to pull the book off the shelf. Series titles: Traveler (Named...

My two cents: Prologues can be the business. However, as has been stated previously, if they are a history lesson, they usually don't work. That being said, if they contain an event related to the main plotline, but only set to join it at some arbitrary page number--say, 42--they tend to do...