Eitan

A third man stepped near, “What’s going on?” His tone was hard, and the mask didn’t help the façade.

Ohel took a small step back, holding his hands higher, away from the dagger. His heart pounded as the masked man stepped nearer. Am I drunk? No. This… No. Dreaming? May it be so. “I don’t know.” Ohel whispered. His eyes flashed to the girl,…[Read more]

What’s this? Another victim! Arsene decided to listen in, because he is a spoiled overgrown child who must know everything.

“Who are you?” Awe~ young love. Brandishing the bow, Alessio kept it aimed on the new victim.

Leana jumped a little, making Arsene think she might hit him with the club.

Alessio whispered something to Leana. No fair, how…[Read more]

Leana lowered her stick and backed up to stand beside Alessio, glancing from the newcomer to the others behind them, and back to the newcomer.

Ohel’s eyes widened even more, as he stared at the arrow, nocked toward his head.

“Who are you?” Alessia’s tone was hard, protective.

Leana’s cheeks flushed in shock. She looked down expectantly at the…[Read more]

Wait, Nithel had said Leana was about Alessio’s age, but Nithel was a couple thousand years old before he became human and he didn’t have Alessio’s exact age he’d just been estimating so was Leana actually seventeen or eighteen or was “about your age?” actually like a couple hundred years old because she’d turn out to be some fantastical r…[Read more]

Ohel fell stumbled through the doorway, What? The toe of one sandal getting caught on the threshold, and his arms flailed before he fell on his face. “Oof.”

Leana gave a short squeal and sprang to her feet, swinging her spikey club over her shoulder, ready to swing it down on him. (Though the blanket’s a bit tangled on it.)

Ohel jumped,…[Read more]

@this-is-not-an-alien

YAS YASSSSSSSSS MY ARCH NEMESISSSSSS!!!! ARISE FROM THY COFFIN!!!!!!

*coffin where I was taking a nap bursts open in a shower of pink glitter and I emerge carrying coffee and eating a cupcake*

Your days of ruling this city are over, my personal supervillain!!!

@nataliecone

So often my ideas come to me in a single glimpse of a single scene. When I sit down to describe the scene, everything else before and after that scene suddenly appears. The more I write it out, the deeper it goes, and more unfolds.

It’s like a true pantser way of doing things. For YEARS I’ve tried to train myself to plot and wri…

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🤣🤣 Not knocking you plotters out there! I would do it that way if I could, if my brain only worked that way! My friend has been trying to convince me that This Is The Way (he’s amazing… Not knocking him, either 🤣). I just couldn’t do it.

For longer stuff, I start making plot nots once I get a few thousand words into it. But never before. My…[Read more]

🤫 We don’t speak of that horrible monster. 🤫 We never speak of Bruno 🤫

@this-is-not-an-alien

MY books are not THAT dark! I read YOUR draft!

MWahahahahahahahahaa

Yes. I mean Dark Fantasy is kinda like a blanket title for well…dark books that are also fantasy…And your books are dark 🙂

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YAS YASSSSSSSSS MY ARCH NEMESISSSSSS!!!! ARISE FROM THY COFFIN!!!!!!

Welp, I feel called out. 🫠

“Who said anything about being half human?” Arsene returned with his usual annoying smile. “As I said before, my father was a woodland elf, who left his country, and my mother was a lone dragon. I have no human heritage.”

Alessio blinked slowly, his eyes getting wider even while he was trying to maintain a neutral expression. Vaguely he remembe…[Read more]

I love this question because I love hearing how other people come up with their ideas, too!

So often my ideas come to me in a single glimpse of a single scene. When I sit down to describe the scene, everything else before and after that scene suddenly appears. The more I write it out, the deeper it goes, and more unfolds.

It’s like a true…[Read more]

@this-is-not-an-alien

I have been summoned from the depths of school-induced digital hibernation!!!!

@nataliecone

Hi Natalie, I’m Rose! I’ve been very inactive here recently, but it’s lovely to meet you!

Welll… Gilded Blood jumps wildly between a fun, light “Chaos teenagers on an adventure” fantasy and some extremely dark subjects XD…[Read more]

[@this-is-not-an-alien – you … just sit there? REALLY?!]

[You are wrong.]

[Life is not gray. It is black and white. But they mingle. A little black in the white. A little white in the black.]

[Take off your apathy-tinted glasses. See the world as it is.]

[That fox-fire you stare into dims. Winks out. And darts away.]

[The tip-tip-tip-tip of…[Read more]

Undeniably uncomfortable, Alessio started. “You’re…a weredraekon?”

Well, that’s a new one, although that could describe it.

“Or…dragons are intelligent in your world?”

He blinked slowly, opened his mouth to say something, hesitated, and then opened his mouth to speak anyway. This should be good.

“If you’re half dragon and half human…how do……[Read more]

I agree with this strongly. I appreciate your warning to pray about writing dark fantasy because it’s our job to shine a light. I agree there, too ut that’s where I e been messing up. When I START the story with plans to shine a light, it comes across as too pretty and shiny and pure. When I start with the shadows, by the time I’m at the end,…[Read more]

this sounds incredible!! And lots of fun! Aren’t they always more lame on paper than it is inside our heads? I like the space inside my head. It’s quirky and fun. 🤣

Does anyone write Dark Fantasy? Tell me what yours look like.

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I don’t know? I never really thought about it as DARK Fantasy. But, based off my understanding, that probably does fit?

I guess my current WIP is dark fantasy? @this-is-not-an-alien? Is Lost City of Dragons – Burn’s story – Dark Fantasy?

I know that Dungeon Punk is one of the genre…[Read more]