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PPenpilot replied to the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot..Would something like Conan the Barbarian fall into this category? In terms of how you can signal to the reader that this is fantasy...
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Naruzeldamaster replied to the thread First or third person?.Who is the narrator, that chair over there? nah, too unreliable, maybe that cloud, nah too high and mighty, that gold fish? nah not a... -
skip.knox replied to the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot..I have to ask: why do you think you have a fantasy novel? No magic, no monsters ...? There is an older genre of "fantastic" stories in... -
AAndy wilfong replied to the thread First or third person?.I write like I’m reading the story for the first time myself, if it doesn’t make sense to me, it won’t to others, I know my stories, but...
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JLiana replied to the thread First or third person?.Who's telling the story? What is the story? Who knows! -
Naruzeldamaster replied to the thread First or third person?.Secret fourth option: Seventeenth person. Nobody will know what's going on if they can't tell who's telling the story.
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Climate change in fantasy novels?.Climate Change of sorts plays a role on Dagon's World in 'Empire: Spiral.' Dagon's World is a marginal planet with a thin atmosphere...
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pmmg replied to the thread Dystopian Novels.I find dystopian is kind of adjacent to what I prefer most, which is bleak, abandoned, apocalyptic worlds. Often there is a dystopian... -
LLizzie Brookes replied to the thread Dystopian Novels.George Orwell's 1984 and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale are certainly interesting and powerful to read and study but like The...
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LLizzie Brookes replied to the thread Climate change in fantasy novels?.Theoretically you could write and publish a fantasy series where the humanoids or other races did what we should have done all along -...
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LLizzie Brookes replied to the thread Why do you like Harry Potter?.Mainly the characters - the trio Harry, Ron and Hermione and the way they grew and developed from 11 to 17 and yes the ideas, the world...
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LLizzie Brookes replied to the thread What are you top fifteen Favorite Novels / Series?.1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) 2. Emma (Jane Austen) 3. Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens) 4. Bleak House (Charles Dickens) 5...
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TheCrystallineEntity replied to the thread Newbie.Welcome! Short stories are a great place to start, and good for you for keeping at it. I, too, use the pencil-and-paper route first, and... -
LLizzie Brookes replied to the thread What makes you read a book multiple times?.In my case it is usually a combination of caring about the characters and finding the plot interesting. Sometimes I read a book...
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Gurkhal replied to the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot..I just want to say that low fantasy with as little magic as possible the fantasy I enjoy the most and I hope that the OP posts some...