skip.knox submitted a new blog post: History for Fantasy Writers: Medieval Mining by E.L. Skip Knox [IMG] This article continues the topic of...
They're wielded by Catalan crossbowmen, who were famous in the Middle Ages for their skill. They even made their own bows! Days will serve. I...
Here's one for the Assembled Wisdom. I have in mind a scene in which crossbowmen are posted in an elevated position. Maybe atop boulders, maybe in...
>I sincerely wish you were right... :D Oh, I didn't mean we *actually* know what's going on. We just tell our readers that! (the difference...
I think there's only one pdf. When you say you could not access, do you get a 404 or what?
Yup. Picture the kind of bow used by Mongol warriors.
It sounds like a curse. I'd be happy with that as a reader. The one hole that I noticed (maybe it was just a shadow...) is this: if the good...
I deal with this a bit in Altearth. Dwarves don't have a priesthood and elves are weird in a variety of ways, so we'll leave them aside. Humans...
Fair enough. Too short, then. I would still go to Amazon and investigate length of poetry books (self-published, not the collections of masters!)....
Seems like there would be ways to know this. Look at poems being sold at Amazon. Join poetry publishing-oriented forums and ask around there. I...
In Altearth, mages come in a wide variety of types, but the two of most interest are court mages and tower wizards. The former are obvious: kings...
Rather than start a new thread (which I already did over here Traditional battle mages ), I'll append to this one. No question, just sketching out...
Wow, nothing since May. Here's a contribution. [ATTACH]
Thanks for the reply, Tigrrl. You are quite right, the article is aimed at fantasy writers, not to SF. The whole series, History for Fantasy...
Seems like something you should write. The perfect opportunity for a writer is an angle they care about plus an angle overlooked by the mainstream...
Heightened perception isn't a metal ability. Our senses are physical. The mental part comes in with how we process that input. The classic example...
skip.knox submitted a new blog post: History for Fantasy Writers: Miners by by E.L. Skip Knox [IMG] We fantasy fans know this much: mines =...
It's very unlikely they would see each other again. Defendants can be tried separately or together--depends on how they choose--but they would...
Wait. Secretly poisoned your father and then took the throne? What happened to Edward? And Lady Jane, for all that? Or is this a fantasy reworking?
First, live longer. Mary died too young. Second, find a better mate. Philip commanded many resources, but he was a poor politician and made a...
