Recent content by psychotick

Hi, I don't really suffer from this illness, but I do sometimes go too far in creating my worlds. However I have found a cure - my editor! She has this delete button on her computer you see and a love of using it - and then writing comments to tell me how much she loved using it! Cheers, Greg.

Hi, Why not just make it up? I've never been comfortable with the entire light and dark thing with fae. They are intelligent after all - so the idea that they should just be bound from birth to be human haters and nasties in general strikes me as wrong. They should be able to choose. In my...

Hi, Actually my latest which is with my editor has a peaceful solution - after the big battle scene. In short the good guys went out to fight, realised they were completely outclassed, were barely holding their own, when a former bad girl saved the day by calling some allies. But then after the...

Hi, Your latest question seems to suggest you want to write a fantasy story with no fantasy elements. I'm not sure how that works. But really I think you're getting hung up on the idea that it's a fantasy story. I think it's not. It's just a general fiction / maybe adventure story. Depending on...

Hi, I think that CreateSpace may not be the right POD publisher for your needs. There are others your could try - Blurb or Lulu for example. Cheers, Greg.

Hi, I wouldn't worry about the distinction between high and low fantasy here. The question is really how what magical elements there are in your story effect the other elements of it - the plot, the world build and the characters. For eample you've mentioned dragons - are they real? Do they fly...

Hi, But of course centaurs have one stomach and dragons breathe fire because of an appalling shortage of antacid!!! Cheers, Greg.

Hi, For me it's a yes and a no - sorry, I know you didn't want that as an answer, but there's a reason. My shape shifters basically heal when they shift form. So if they get shot they just shift a few times, which makes them very hardy souls. But the point is that they can still be shot. And...

Hi, It may be a little away from what you're looking for, but my thought (based largely on Jeeves and Wooster I admit) would be that the family pays him a three monthly or six monthly stipend - for which he has to go cap in hand to them - and then for the rest just in case he's a complete...

Hi, Up to you really. Is the timber that was used to build the barricade dry? And how loosely packed is it? Get the right amount of air spaces to timber and it'll burn fast. Also how big are the pieces oftimber? Any kindling in it? On top of that how far in seconds is the water from the fire -...

Hi, Send him away? There's plenty of books and shows where noble brats have been sent a long way away - Egypt, the East etc, and told to run the family business / outpost there. You said they were merchants. Look for or create a trade city somewhere overseas. Another reason to send him overseas...

Hi, I've actually written characters in this situation. The typical rule for nobility with sons would be "an heir and a spare". So the two eldest boys would have responsibilities placed on them. Girls would have been married off. With younger sons it would be anyone's guess what might happen...

Hi, I'm not sure I completely agree with this. My thought is that you don't want to do 1, 2, and 3. You probably want to limit youself to only one of those sorts ofstatements at any one point. But it can be any one of them. And your announcements of what you're going to tell someone can be...

Hi, I have a couple of things that relate to this. First, I wrote a book some time ago in which the MC killed another character - a minor evil one. He shot him with arrows, watched him fall even as he tried to strike back, then fell in a camp fire and burned to death. My MC was hurt by that for...

Hi, I don't really have slumps like that thankfully. I normall get one of a week or two after I've finished a book and got it out - the edit process really wipes me out and it's hard to want to focus on anything except mindless entertainment after. But I think the thing that saves me is how I...