Are You Writing Serious Fantasy? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 08-09-2002, 09:44 AM

Eol: I went back and read your other post over again. You were more specific than I had noticed the first time. My fault. Yes, Dragonlance is imho a bit adolescent, though good enough for all that.

Welcome new writers. As to how to handle mythic writing, I would first do a good amount of reading in it. The Silmarillion, for example; or try the Icelandic sagas, Norse sagas, and so forth. The Heimskringla and many other legends are available on-line. Here's another one: mythmakers.

After you've read a bit and gotten a feel for the rhythm and flow and cadence of it (those were redundancies, i think), then give it a whirl.

08-09-2002, 09:44 AM	#11
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Eol: I went back and read your other post over again. You were more specific than I had noticed the first time. My fault. Yes, Dragonlance is imho a bit adolescent, though good enough for all that. Welcome new writers. As to how to handle mythic writing, I would first do a good amount of reading in it. The Silmarillion, for example; or try the Icelandic sagas, Norse sagas, and so forth. The Heimskringla and many other legends are available on-line. Here's another one: mythmakers. After you've read a bit and gotten a feel for the rhythm and flow and cadence of it (those were redundancies, i think), then give it a whirl.