Anyone do any fantasy writing?

[elvendrummer87]

Originally posted by Lief Erikson
Jeepers! How sad; they ought to encourage you and suggest improvement if they see improvement as needed, but it's ridiculous to just stamp on someone else's inspiration. Luckily, even when I was writing at a very early age and had almost nothing in my books but fighting, people still encouraged me . Do you have any encouragement then, besides Entmoot?

my mom and uncles are as obsessed with fantasy as i am;so's my aunt. at least i get support on the home-front

[Gwaimir Windgem]

From the poetry thread in General Literature:

Originally posted by Gwaimir Windgem
Well, here's a poem of mine. It got published in an anthology, and is copyrighted to my name, so I don't have to worry about anyone stealing it. It is a poem about Forevermore, the here-after in Lisman. It was in a way inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" (Awesome author. Love his works to tiny pieces. )

Forevermore
by...wouldn't you like to know!

So fair and perfect is the blessed land of Forevermore,
That holy land, that fair place of pure and holy bliss.
There, tear will drop and blood be shed never, nevermore,
Nor the old ways of yesteryear will ever again be missed.

In this unblemished, undying land of true and perfect peace,
War and famine, plague and death, will everlastingly end.
Pray that when life so sweet and good at last flies from thee,
Undying soul to Undying lands will eternally ascend.

So far and so pure is the blessed land of Forevermore,
Where crystal tear will drop and crimson blood be shed never, nevermore.

This is my poem that barely got critiqued by my group.

A mom obssessed with fantasy? Must be nice...not that I'd trade mine!

[Ninquelote]

I like to write fantasy stories. I also like to write some Lord of The Rings poems. You can see them...

Here
and here.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

O.o

Didn't know about Lord of the Rings poems...

[Lief Erikson]

I do like your poem, Gwaimir. I just can't think of any comments at the moment .

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Thanks, Lief. You're not alone; only one person at my writer's group actually came up with a critique, as I can remember. The rest just said that they liked it a lot, and liked the imagery, etc. Which of course is just fine.

[Kalile]

I have about a gazillion plots in my head, and ten times as many complete characters. I can't get things done. Stupid schoolwork!

[Gwaimir Windgem]

O, I know what you mean. Except I put my plots down in computer documents. But it's been a long time since I've actually written something.

BTW, Welcome to the Entmoot!

[Lalaith_Elf]

hiya peeps......... i'm back.......... MWHAHAHAHAHAHA........

sorry...... haven't been on for over a month...... too busy..... too many stories in my head....... i've just started a new one and i've even started drawing the characters which i usually do at the end.......

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Update on magic system: I'm adding a form of magic inspired by what little I know/have heard of Kabbalah; a kind of "holy" magic based around the invocation of various names of Eltarn. I'm not sure if it will replace the more "neutral" magic in my world ATM, or if it will be in there besides it, like darker magicks. I'm also unsure whether it will be practiced by wizard-types, or monastics/specific order or orders of monastics.

[Ninquelote]

Bleh, I've never used magic in my fantasy writing. There's just too many rules in the wrong places and not enough rules in the right. Like, I don't see the point of putting up walls if someone can walk through 'em.

[Earniel]

LOL! That's a very practical view, Ninquelote.

[Lief Erikson]

Yep . Just a matter, then, of how much effort you're willing to expend upon that. I personally have found it well worth the effort, because I enjoy making up my magical system .

Yesterday while my younger brothers and sister were watching Star Wars, I lay on my bed in the back bedroom and made a battle strategy. It couldn't be just any old battle strategy though, because I had to eliminate the support sources for my queen. I had to accomplish several various things, and I may have to add a few scenes into the book. Not that I mind though, because they'd be exciting scenes, not boring-but-necessary ones.

Making that map was interesting, but I still have another thing to work out. I have to make a reason for a queen and her army to march out to a volatile country. She supports neither of the factions that are warring in that faction, but the primary reason would be chasing another queen and her army there. I need to think hard on that issue, still.

That was my most recent development. What improvements has everyone made of late to their plots, books or stories?

Or should I bother with asking yet? I haven't given up on that Writer's Forum, even though I can't see the progress. I'm getting impatient, not knowing if anything is going on.

[Ninquelote]

I usually try to avoid magic. If I use a race that always uses magic, I find a way to render them magicless. Like I had a Drow character. Drow are known to use magic, and I used a bunch of Drow. So I made them situated on the surface, when the sun drained their power.

[Aralyn]

I make my characters have limitations on thier magic. Like if they can stop time or whatever they have to have a certain necklace or something. BUt Magic is hard to work with (In stories I mean )

[Laurus Nobilis]

Originally posted by Aralyn
I make my characters have limitations on thier magic.

I think that's one of the most important things to have in mind when you deal with magic in stories. If your characters can use magic to solve every problem, then you have a very boring plot!

For example, I have a character who can control several elements, and he was getting out of hand. So I had to ask myself, what can't he do? And it turned out that he can't hurt a soul- it's not in his nature to attack living beings, not even a troll/orc/whatever who's attacking him. That made things more interesting, since it was harder for him to get out sticky situations.

[Lief Erikson]

That's a good idea. It's definitely useful to have pre-defined what your characters can or cannot do. Making things up as one goes along can be a tougher road . . . I'm on it right now .

I'm actually not making things up as I'm going along in the way of "inventing something whenever I need to," but I'm still working upon my thesis for magic. Rather than the specific magical powers, I'm working on the structure. I probably should also make a list for myself of what powers exist, and what varieties of magical items exist. That would be very useful, I expect.

Laurus, is your character that doesn't like to kill a different sort of race, or is it simply his philosophy against killing?

[Ninquelote]

I remember I tried to incorperate magic into one of my stories, and my friend read it and told me that the rules of magic made what I did impossible.

What I did was, had a person never die because their soul was placed within an item. If the item was destroyed, then they were destroyed. However, one could tear up their body in as many ways as possible, but they wouldn't die. (Perhaps renderred immobile, but not dead.)

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Well, that person is wrong. The rules of magic are entirely up to the writer or the creator. They would be very different in Middle-earth than they would be in Forgotten Realms, for example. And as your world is neither of those, the rules of magic would be up to you.

[Laurus Nobilis]

Originally posted by Lief Erikson
Laurus, is your character that doesn't like to kill a different sort of race, or is it simply his philosophy against killing?

A bit of both.

He belongs to a race I made up that has very close contact with nature. He understands the "languages" of all animals and plants, so he sees there's life in everything- and that's why he decides not to kill anything.