Merlin34

Yeah, that's it.

Maradonia.

Excellent article. I've actually had someone copy an article from my (now defunct) Animal Crossing website and post it on a forum. I got the topic deleted, but not before ...

Eragon. It taught me everything I should never do in a fantasy book. This. So very much this.

This piece has potential. You've got a good setup (survivors huddling in the ruins of their fortress, planning a last desperate assault against impossible odds), and the first line is ...

Hello EloquentDragon. Thought I'd review this. So I did. Ha. I must say that I liked it. Quite a lot. You've set a good mood, and conveyed a sense of ...

Metal mainly, with some rock and classical. I recommend Rhapsody of Fire, Blind Guardian, Guardians of Andromeda, Falconer, and Luca Turilli.

That is very true. Also very short. You really need to give people more to review when you post stuff.

I suppose that might fall under "do not begin with a cliche". And I wouldn't do it, but I'm not going to say that it shouldn't be done. Writing IS ...

Yeah, a prairie is a type of grassland.

Horses, the most common animal in fantasy (second place is raven, then rat, then wolf). You’d think, since they’re often central elements in the plot and present during a lot ...

The beginning of the story will be the most important part. It is the part that must hook the reader, and make them want to read on. It's easy to ...

Well, the Mary Sue Litmus Test may not be killing our characters directly (that's the job of the villains, right?), what it is doing in encouraging writers to create perfectly ...

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