Recent content by hunfrith

I think it is totally something you can do - in many books, when different characters are speaking, the author uses different conventions in the dialog to highlight individual differences. If you're doing the same thing just on a larger scale to highlight the differences between two narrators, I...

Hello, I have been lurking in this community for a few days and have decided to introduce myself. I am an aspiring writer of fantasy, and am excited to be part of this group. My main focus the past several years has been a number of projects set within a fantasy world I have been creating, and...

I agree, I think it would be hard to find a superpower which has never been used. One cool way to twist things though could be having different mechanisms by which the superpower acts, as I think someone mentioned above. Some ideas that come to mind: I was reading something a while ago where...

One thought that comes to mind for me given the bureaucracy and the discussion on roads, etc., is the idea of a well-developed messenger system. It seems that because the rifts form a complicated network, if there is a faction (controlled by the empire) that is expert in navigating it - i.e...

I agree; I find the constraining nature of poetry to be super beneficial in my work - it forces me to think about the language I am using in a different way. While it takes me more time to come up with how to say what I want to say, I find that it helps facilitate the actual saying of it in a...