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I would argue that this is not in any way, shape or form a "peaceful solution". It happens after a gigantic battle between the Fremen and the Emperor's forces and also gets interrupted by hand to hand combat.

Greetings, kikyo! Is your name by any chance a reference to Inuyasha? One of my all time favorite anime. :) I'm a little confused by your story description. It doesn't seem to follow any real ancient Egyptian religious belief. For instance, Thutmose II would not have to travel the world to find...

My personal rule is: never ask this question. Because literally nothing is "necessary" in fiction. There's no such thing. The only question you should ask as a standard for your fiction is: is this interesting? Chances are if it's interesting to you, it will also be interesting to your audience...

Husband and I have tired of WoW again and have started playing FFXIV. We've actually tried to play it a couple of other times. It always fails to pull me in even though so much about it seems so attractive. This time we've developed a better plan. I designed my character on more general lines. I...

Three things... 1. You should never "trust" wikipedia for anything important. This shouldn't even be in question. 2. Word count is not standardized across the industry. Different organizations will have different standards for it. And it's not really that important. Write your story to the...

Sure. Absolutely. It of course depends highly on the story itself. But you can write a story with only one character. You can do practically anything with a story, especially in the fantasy genre. You just have to be aware that your story might not appeal to as many people. Personally, I think...

I was speaking specifically about the Zothique stories. (I wouldn't call The City of Singing Fire depressing, for instance.) And I didn't mean depressing in the sense of "makes me depressed to read" but just that they pretty much all have very negative endings for the characters. Almost no one...

Personally, I vastly prefer both Dunsany and Lovecraft to CAS. CAS has some really great concepts and atmospheres but tends to not explore them as satisfactorily (to me) as Dunsany or Lovecraft. Also, it seems strange to say this, but I honestly think these Zothique stories were more depressing...

I finished reading all the Clark Ashton Smith Zothique stories. Finished up last night with Xeethra (since they were in alphabetical order) which was an interesting one. Zothique is definitely dark. Almost none of the stories ended positively for the main character. And iirc most of the stories...

To be honest, I have not really enjoyed any "western" YA that I have tried, with the exception of Sabriel. I don't usually pay attention to age demographic when looking for fantasy books, so I have read (or started reading) several that ended up being considered YA. Even the ones that I finished...

Huzzah for quotes from Dune! I'm a huge fan. But I thought you might like to know, this quote above is not from the books. It's only from the David Lynch movie Dune. Still a pretty good quote though. :) I just reread Dune on my kindle so here's a few that I highlighted (I highlighted way too...

I finished reading Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in historical fiction dealing with the time around the French Revolution. Sabatini has a reputation for writing his historical fiction as accurate to the history as possible and I really learned a lot...

@elemtilas your map is so very Tolkien-esque! It's beautiful and I love it. My map is essentially this: Which was a world map made by Claudius Ptolemy around 150 AD. (Though the above is a later, redrawn version.)

Any tumblr scribes still out there? My tumblr blog has changed to The Indecisive Muse I'm going to be participating in this tumblr worldbuilding event in June. , World Building June 2017! Hello friends, its that...

I didn't like The Dark Eidolon that much. The Empire of the Necromancers is probably my favorite so far. (They're listed in alphabetical order so I still have a bunch to read.) After I finish Zothique I'll probably read all the Hyperborea stories.