To anyone who is trying to write fiction:

[Druidus]

This website has been very helpful in the creation and consequent "bringing to life" of the worlds in each of my three ongoing novels. I think it would help anyone else who is trying to write, and I'd feel guilty if I hoarded it.

Here you are:

http://www.sfwa.org/writing/worldbuilding1.htm

 

[Dinogrrl]

I'm sure I've got this somewhere already, but thanks for pointing it out . I'm a survey/questionnaire whore. I'll probably do this as soon as I finish checking the forums XD.

 

[Feathers in Hair]

Thanks very muchly for it! I look forward to exploring it!

 

[Doc]

Thanks Druidus, I am working on several stories at home. 5 to be exact right now. All are sequels so it is like a Pentology or something like that. In all of them, I hide my political views and each main character has some kind of different religion than the other.

 

[Dinogrrl]

Five? Woo :O. I have four (actually, two, but one is in three parts) that I'm seriously working on, and a handful of 'personal' stories and fanfics. So confusing XD.

 

[Doc]

Well I began the 5th one first, but it needed a prequel to show how things happened so that began number 3, but that needed a prelude so then it was book 1, but like four centuries pass between 3 and 5 so i made 4. And lastly, 2 was created to show how 3 came to be.

Yes quite confusing.

 

[Dinogrrl]

lol I know how that is . Except for me, it's usually side-stories out the wazoo. Gajillions and gajiliions of them.

 

[Druidus]

Heh, mine are totally unrealated. One is pure fantasy, another is mostly fantasy partly science fiction, and the last is about half-half.

First one is about a "quarter-orc" ranger, who fights with throwing axes (four), and closes in with a great axe. In his past, he murdered someone, after going into a berserk orc rage. He had held himself to high standards, fighting for the people and for justice, but when he killed that person, he became a shadow of himself, fighting only for himself, and living in the wilderness, except to pick up alcohol, in town, and sell pelts. His great axe can talk . The axe is a "good" axe, and is trying to convince him to go back, with little success. The axe belonged to his grandfather, who was a full orc. The orc band had found it in a raiding, and his grandfather, being an intelligent indivudual, for an orc, noticed something special about it, and gave his share of treasure for it. The axe eventually talks to him, and convinces him of some things. The axe turns the orc into a "good" guy. He cannot kill in the raidings anymore, and runs. A female human ranger captures him, and is about to kill him, but the axe intervenes. She thinks it's trickery, but leaves him alive, though tied up. Long story short, they fall in love, and the barbarian/ranger family produce a half-orc, who becomes a blacksmith. When the main character (the quarter orc), is sixteen, a band of orcs, attack his village. His father dies defending his mother, who also dies anyway, and his grandfather gives the axe to him and tells him to run, that he will hold off the orcs as long as he can.

To say much about the other ones would be to give away much. Sorry for rambling!