Eragon was super influential to me. The fact that the author was so young when he wrote/published it really made me believe in my ability to do...
As part of my world building I got Way Too Into diamonds, so I know too much about natural vs lab grown diamonds (and crystals in general). To the...
Then I'd say you're okay. There's only so many ways to skin a cat (person). I think you would only get in trouble if you start adding in details...
The Bad Guy for a decent chunk of Two Kinds was the protagonist, but something happened to him to make him lose his memory, so he has no memory of...
When I wrote my short story Aphelion, a lot of the world-building happened as I wrote it, knocking around in the back of my head but not really...
You should check out The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel, it's an SF story about some missionaries who visit a planet that has 2 intelligent species,...
A furry is an anthropomorphic animal, I don't know what to tell you. Furries writing furry work is published by the big 4 and nominated for Nebula...
I love both Ace Attorney and SVU, so legal stuff can be super interesting. However, the actual laws/legal systems are just the...
1. In MS Word or MS Excel, or Scrivener if there's already a project for it. Sometimes I'll throw it into Google Keep if I run across something so...
That's awesome, congrats!
Elves and dwarves were in norse myths, so they're not really copyright-able, just like how the concept of a dragon or a unicorn or werewolf isn't....
1: Lots of people do things because "sure why not?" Such a man might have no interest in the normal candidates because they're too boring, or too...
I don't think "determination" is an emotion. It's a frame of mind. Also, do you NEED to have emotion [x] to do [x] magic? Or does casting an [x]...
It depends on the project, namely the idea that spawned it. If it's world-first like "what if there was a parasite that gave you magic?" then...
I'm sure there's a wizard version of Jefferey Dahmer in the Harry Potter world, but I don't think that's ever going to be brought up in the books...
It is very, very hard to "plot"/outline characterization. It mostly springs up naturally as the writing happens. The characters need to have those...
Genre is, ultimately, a marketing term, especially when you get really granular (like "grimdark fantasy" or "space opera"). It helps people find...
One of my favorite series is Guardians of Ga'Hoole, an MG fantasy series in which all the characters are owls (though there's also magpies, bears,...
You need to first figure out HOW you want your reader to interact with your book. You also need to figure out WHO your target audience is and how...
I've tried looking for them and...never had much luck. Everything cost money, had limits, or put stuff in a format that wasn't very future-proof....
