Recent content by SteveW

A cat. Because cats are just better.

I had last week off work to celebrate my birthday and guess what happened? I woke up on my birthday with a stinking cold. I couldn't go out to celebrate, all food tasted horrible and the week off was wasted. But "luckily", I got better just in time to go back to work. Funny how often that...

I Went To Swindon (That's one for the English people amongst us)

I googled "Fantasy Writer Forum" to find like-minded people. This site was one of the top results.

I have to agree with the others. Descriptions of violence don't bother me in the least. It can be a good device to advance the story or to establish a character's personality. In that sense it can work well. But even in those instances going too in-depth would feel pointless and like the author...

Thanks for the replies, everyone. You have given me a lot to think about. So far in my story (I'm roughly 35000 words in) I have already established that the founder of the church was a woman. I also mention that my main non-POV character is a woman who inherits when her father dies but there...

I still remember the first novel I wrote. If you thought yours was awful, Caged Maiden, you should try mine. :eek: I hardly bothered with characterisation beyond "He's an angry man" or "She wants to do this or that", I introduced places or groups because I thought they were cool without thinking...

Hi all. I have been pondering this for a while as I've been writing my story and I was wondering if you could help. To provide some context: In my story, I have a unified religion that spans most of the world which worships a whole pantheon of gods - half of whom are female. The church was...

As I see it, rules are rules. You are guided to the guidelines as soon as you sign up to this site as I did today. A quick read through and I knew what was and wasn't allowed. Refusing to conform to such a simple rule just seems rather pointless to me. As for Internet slang, I was thankfully...

Hey all. I'm new to this site but it looks amazing so far! Just wanted to introduce myself here before I take the plunge and try to work out where to start in all the other forums. :) Hopefully I will be able to contribute some useful information as well as plunder the good stuff from the...