@josiah Thank you! 🙂

@josiah That’s the plan. That 50k will include some short stories that help showcase the world, ideally. It’s going well so far! 🙂

@naiya-dyani That’s amazing! 😀 😀

I’m in some weird middle ground where I’m planning to shoot for 50k in November but I’m not working on any actual stories (worldbuilding all month) and where I’m not a fan of the NaNoWriMo organization but I’m still on the site because of one of the communities I’m part of that is a significant bright patch on the forums. So. I honestly don’t know…[Read more]

The forum really doesn’t want me to share links. I have a writing blog called Scribes & Archers and a lifestyle/theology/worldview blog called Within the Static. You can find the first easily in search, and hopefully this WTS link will work…

@sarahfi Like Grace said, it sounds like you’re good to go. You sound like you’re taking care with both the culture and the story, so I don’t think you have anything to worry about. 😉

Would it be cultural appropriation if a Chinese person came across an American story and was inspired to write something with a similar character and plot? Nope. It’s just being inspired by another artist’s work. (The bigger concern would be plagiarism, but even that seems unlikely in such a situation.)

Of course, I’m also of the opinion that…[Read more]

Personally, I think there are three categories of “magic.” There’s “magic” that comes directly from the world’s God-figure, there’s “magic” that is built into the world (which, I think, means it comes indirectly from the world’s God-figure), and there’s the type of magic condemned in the Bible which is an attempt at gaining power apart from God…[Read more]

@arindown I’ve read The Silmarillion, although it was difficult to get through and I don’t remember most of it now, lol. That’s the only one. ;P I think my dad has all three of the new books, but I haven’t read them yet.

@arindown Ooh, also good moments. (Especially Aragorn and Legolas’s argument.)

Ooh, both of those are good! I ended up with a whole list on this last read-through, lol (including Tom Bombadil), but I think The Scouring of the Shire is tops on the list. It showed just how far the darkness had spread, it had some great themes, and it allowed the…[Read more]

1. There are so many good scenes! I love the moment when Sam throws an apple at Bill Ferny’s head in Fellowship of the Ring for its comedic effect (especially since I could clearly picture Sean Astin as Sam in that scene). I love the scene in The Scouring of the Shire where Sam is talking to Robin, the Hobbit sheriff, about the mess that has been…[Read more]