Category Archives: World Info
Trope Roulette: Colour-Coded For Your Convenience
Nothing to say about Curses, alas, so I’ve decided to do a similar thing to Tough Traveling, except with prompts off of TVTropes. Yes, run away now, all you people who fear getting sucked into that site. It is one … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Companions
A bit late this week, but I got nabbed to do actual Social Things last night when normally I would have been hammering out a post, so! I’m not terribly social on my own, and therefore must take the opportunity … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Witches
As usual, I’m taking advantage of the Tough Traveling feature at Fantasy Review Barn to talk about a story-related topic. Unusually though, I don’t have anything from the actual text to highlight — there have been no real witches in … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Shapeshifting
Now this one, I can do! Once again, I’m taking a cue from Nathan over at Fantasy Review Barn and babbling about one of the tropes in my writing, as identified in Diana Wynne Jones’ satiric take on fantasy worlds. … Continue reading
Halion Creatures 3
I’d meant to do this post a while back, but I never got around to finishing the write-up. Alas. Anyway, since I have nothing to say for today’s Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn, I decided to drag this one … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Northern Barbarians
In this installment of Tough Traveling, I’ll be talking a bit about a culture that has had a lot of impact on the main setting of my story — but all externally. What trope is this? It’s the Northern Barbarians! … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Necromancy
Today on Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn, we deal with a topic close to my heart: necromancy! It should be no secret that I’m fond of necromancers, because I say it all the dang time. I have to mention, … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Minions
This week, Fantasy Review Barn has chosen Minions for their Tough Traveling topic. And I have a few of those, heh. Heh heh heh… Though, after considering the details of the entry for a while and checking out Nathan’s selections, … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Mentors
Nathan over at Fantasy Review Barn gave us a nice, easy one today, and I’m happy about it because I get to discuss how Cob ended up with three mentors — and ran away from all of them. (The short … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Immortals
Time for another travel-date with Fantasy Review Barn! This time, the topic is Immortals. Immortals are fairly common in Fantasyland There are three kinds: 1) Goddesses and Gods, who exist forever unless people stop believing in them. 2) Elves or … Continue reading