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Hey, thanks a lot!

That is okay to me. If my story takes place in a type of dark age the world would still be filled with mysterious and wild places. I just would really like to develop the idea of a mysterious, unfathomable place that is largely wild and undeveloped. I would like the reader seriously...

I have never thought of it like that. It would interesting to examine the personal psychology of an elf that can live for thousands of years versus an orc that would very uncommon for it to make it to 60. The elf might have an increased fear of dying and it would take them longer to recover...

^Excellent point. I was thinking that humans are the best species to plan any sort of series around because of our capacity for evil. Not not to say that all humans are evil just that fact that there are evil traits within human nature that makes us so easy to get corrupted by power. On top of...

I guess I only actually had the one question.

I read some of Joe Abercrombie's books(First Law Trilogy, Best Served Cold) this winter. I noticed that the author did a very interesting thing, he never showed the reader a map of the story world. I thought this was very interesting and decidedly cool. It creates a real element of mystery. So I...

Hi my name is Brendan but you can call me SagaciousFool. I had been looking for a information on writing fantasy/science fiction for quite some time when I chanced upon this website. One stops here for the informative articles but stays for the excellent forum. I have been doing more than my...