Recent content by Toob Waysider

My main setting is a small Connecticut town located on the "Notch", so I try to keep it as realistic to the actual towns surrounding it, but with several overlays of fantasy elements. But it also serves as the portal to a vast world which was built by a toddler godling, from land masses...

When I was writing about a TV Universe, I created a language as a goof, using the surnames of people with connections to Television as the vocabulary. It was known as Televiszh. (My inspiration was Gore Vidal's novel "Myron" in which he replaced the "vulgar" words with the names of the Supreme...

My world - all the terrain as well as the various species of sentients, plants, and animals - was built with those basics stolen from Earth (and eventually other worlds) by a dangerously petulant Toddler Godling, with the people of Earth mind-swiped to forget... except for the dragons. I don't...

There are plenty of gods in my world, well-established ones from various pantheons, but with the focus on one whom I describe as 'Twilight Zone's' Anthony Fremont as an Archon. But my main character has no time for any of them. He calls them semi-gods, not demi-gods, and the narrator of these...

Actually finishing a project has always been my bugaboo. But for the last five months, I wrote a roman a clef fantasy novel using various members of a music group in an epic adventure to be my offering in the silent auction for the band's annual all-day charity concert. Barely made the...

My worlds - a hidden village on the Connecticut Notch border with Massachusetts, and a "vest pocket" (tip of the hat to Bellairs) dimension which only contains a single planet (and a flat one at that) - both have connections to our world. So my timeline is grounded in reality and goes back to...

Two years ago I took part in that annual November Novel-Writing Challenge, to write the first draft of a 10,000 word novel in a month. I was surprised at how easily it flowed, even with all the research I had to do for the history of the time period, leaving me with over a week to spare. It...

I've been slack in keeping up with the urban fantasies by Charles de Lint, especially his world of the town of Newford in Canada. So I picked up "The Onion Girl", "Spirits In The Wires", "Widdershins", and "Tapping The Dream Tree". I also got a chapbook, "The Lazarus Cabal" by Sean Lee Levin...

My world is a flat planet in a pocket dimension which was created to serve as the "time-out" space for a petulant Toddler God. That godling, born into the pantheon of the Artisans of the Universe, is a lot like a deity version of Anthony Fremont from 'Twilight Zone' - to the point where the...

When I was playing with my concept of a TV Universe and compiling its database, I always loved finding the odd place names for locations in TV's Arizona. I guess there was just something about the territory which lent itself to such names. You'll know when the name you come up with feels...

I took part in 2022, and it was a great exercise in staying focused while doing research for it and incorporating that almost immediately. I finished a week and a half early and then started thinking up ideas for a prequel to write about the next go round. By then however, I was in the middle...

JB, where can I find the forum for the challenge?

He was an early influence on me after Tolkien. He inspired one of my characters in an Elizabethan/Jacobean "superhero" team which lies dormant in a desk drawer. I almost used his title as the name of my village, but it might have been too obvious. (LOL As if the choice I made isn't for a...

I know Dudleytown is inaccessible now thanks to inconsiderate trespassers back in the 1990s, but I'd still like to even see it from the outside of the perimeter. "Dark Entry Forest" - so formal a name! For the most part, I think we're used to a quick description for a place name. To me, "Dark...

Hi there! I stumbled across the forum today while searching online for a particular topic. And I was impressed by the knowledge, and especially the helpfulness, displayed in the comments on a similar quest. While I have created an entire fantasy world in an alternate dimension to supply...