I find a map helps with world building. I need to look at compass referenced all the time and I tend to get lost if I don't have a visual aid. On saying that, all my maps, I've drawn out myself (very roughly I might add) and are on scraps of paper that I riffle through when I need to work out...
As a reader, I am fairly happy with whatever POV the writer is using in the book as long as it's done well. However, after discussions with fellow scribes, I would like to do a quick censor on what other writers think. I'm going to make a stab in the dark here and say I think it depends on which...
Thanks for all the advice - not sure if I understand all the science stuff, but putting everything very basically, it is possible for two moons to rotate in opposite directions around a world as long as they are much smaller than the planet they are orbiting. The tidal drag of both moons cancel...
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Maker, I wish I could come up with an instant answer, but in truth I don't think there is one. I think the exercise NG suggested will give you a fresh perspective. I was going to suggest you write a short (completely different) story with the world and characters you know so well. Put them in...
Thanks dark one, it's one of those things you don't know until you've been there. I'm guessing it's a big learning curve doing it yourself. I hope all goes well for you.
Yep I like it too. It is eye-catching and a bit out of the ordinary. Do you get a book cover illustrated before you find a publisher? If not, do you find the illustrator, or does the publisher recommend anyone?
Many of my favourite authors on the list, any of David Gemmell's books are good reading. Has anyone read Garth Nix, his necromancer trilogy is very good. I love the fact that in the original list, I have read most of the 19th and 20th century titles, most of them in the days when libraries...
Magic is part of the natural world in Twin Kingdoms, however, it is very addictive and insidious. To channel the magic, the wielder has to open themselves up, and use their body as a conduit. If too much is drawn in at any one time, the spontaneously combust. If the wielder becomes addicted...
Orbit the planet in opposite directions - my world is magical but it is a very limited magic otherwise, I think you can be in danger of making everything magical and to me that is just a little bit too easy! Also I don't really want to go against the nature of things if they are impossible - I...
Thanks for your comments, info and links. When I was inventing my world I wanted 2 moons as a way of distinguishing two different lifestyles good v evil, magic v non-magic you know the usual stuff..... but it wasn't until I was developing a particular subplot that I thought perhaps I had made...
Hi, this may be a completely stupid question, but in my world there are two moons, one silver, one red. I would like them to rotate in opposite directions if possible, but I am not sure if this is physically possible. I know it shouldn't matter seeing as it's my world but I do like to be...
I don't have any books that have the same surname. I do, however, have a couple with the same first name... David as in Eddings, Gemmell......
I know it isn't what you asked but I thought it was a little bit interesting :confused: