Recent content by Xitra_Blud

I'll be honest. I really don't know.

Everything but write.

Voice doesn't have to be extremely poetic, but I can't stand bland, standard prose. There has to be some voice there.

Overall, characterization. For me, characters don't have to be someone that I necessarily relate to (Although, I guess that depends on what you mean by relate. I suppose we all relate on some kind of human level). I am interested in the human condition, human psychology and different views of...

I don't think there's anything wrong with it. You'll find that everything has been done before in one fashion or another. What it's going to boil down to is how you execute it.

I don't have a preference. I used to prefer 1st person, but lately, I don't mind either way as long as it's well written. I tend to prefer writing in either 1st person or third limited, though. I used to only write in 1st person, but then I started writing in 3rd limited because the story...

Mostly dark fantasy, but I've done others.

Victorian. Renaissance is runner up.

Oh. I think I see what you mean. For me, to be honest, I don't really know until I've done a lot of brainstorming on it. Usually, I will sort of decide whether or not I think it will be better shorter or if it is enough to expand into a full length novel, but there have been times where I will...

Sorry. Not sure I'm following.

A novel has at least 50,000 words (though I've seen some sources say 40,000 or 60,000, the word count range is usually in the 50,000 zone somewhere). Less than that, it is either a novella, novelette, or short story. It all boils down to word count.

If writing your ideas makes you depressed then, yes, I would say so. While it's true that suffering is a part of the human condition, it is a thing that comes with nature. People in your life will die, sometimes you will fail, you will lose your best friends, your gonna stub you toe on the...

Sort of. I have a kingdom that I like to expand on. It has it's own mythology and all that and different stories that take place in it, but when I get a new fantasy idea that doesn't fit into their universe whether it be because of a different religion or something, I'll put it in a different...

No. Not for me. If it was depressing, I wouldn't do it. I find writing very rewarding in both a therapeutic sense and in way to spend time. I do have to ask, though, if it's a draining and laboring activity, that lacks reward for you, why do you do it?

I say just let it come out natural. I've read literary fiction with prose that were easy to consume and weren't filled with analogies and fancy words. That's not to say that the author didn't have their own voice, but they went against what a lot of people assume literary fiction prose to be...