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Haha I forgot to mention I do use the generators sometimes but they tend to come up with too wacky words for me. But thank you, I'll take a look at this one

This is the first Fantasy book I have ever written and it's been so much fun! But I have noticed a weakness I have which is generating names. Names for people, species, places etc. All the names I come up with just sound crap and amateurish to me. I try to use existing words and jumble them up a...

Exactly it's happened before on this planet so why not on a fantasy one? Magic is forbidden on my planet (by the dominant race) so no magic would be used to control climate or anything. This planet did not beginning with magic (like some others mentioned in my book are) so the forces of the...

Well it's more like a giant island and since they haven't established a good means of travelling great distances over water my characters are only aware of one land mass. There could be more that are undiscovered.

I'm working on my first Fantasy novel, so creating a planet is all very new to me and I just need some help. My new planet is very similar to earth (one sun. one moon). Accept instead of smaller continents it just has one large super continent similar to Pangea (and although I did some...

So in my novel there are a couple of new races I'm creating. I was looking for maybe some questionnaires (fairly in depth ones) about building your own race. All I could find was world building questionnaires with a few questions on races but not to the level I wanted. Thanks for any help

You're dealing with a newbie here. I've heard of a hook but what's an emotional hook?

somewhat confused now...

Interesting, well the definition of inciting incident that I found is 'The first event that can be referred to as the inciting incident is the event that gets your story started. It's the event that occurs within the first couple of pages that alerts the reader that this is it, the story has...

@Fifthview - yes the mother was all ready sick when the book begins.

I tend to copy reality. Each country has it's own names that fit. But as we've all become more connected we're starting to steal names from each other. It really depends on how connected your countries are. Like Aimee is a french name, but here in England we use it a lot. So I tend to look at...

So I’m currently working on my Fantasy book but just need a little help. I’m trying to see if my plot line fits into the three act structure. But I’m unsure of a few things. I need some help figuring out my “inciting incident†My book opens with my protagonist, Emma, in a conflict...

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you and here's what I did. First I started to read recent material in the genre/sub-genre I wanted. I looked at who the leading authors were in that area. Why did people like them so much? What were they doing that was different? What can I add to this Genre...

I don't think it's really about how many books you read, but what kind of books you read. If your choosing books of a good quality that help you grow as a writer and as a person. To make sure I keep up with reading I have a reading list. One for fun and another one for writing. So I try to...

Alyssa - thank you so much. I think my best best is to do some research into earth's history and go from there.