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

Eowyn Skywalker · 05-13-2004, 02:39 PM

Ooooh... I've finally found a thread like this. Very helpful indeed, as I have been working on some fantasy and sci-fi stuff for quite a while in my spare time.

In my main story, and by which I mean it has an awful lot of stories built off of it, the main characters are female, with very interesting pasts, and futures. My problem with this story is it works in the "Three Worlds", and I'm not sure whether the heavy fantasy base works with the other two worlds, of Terra/Earth, and the future, which is very Star Wars like. Does anyone have any good tips on combining fantasy with sci-fi, and not giving the sci-fi characters a heck of an edge, even though their technology is actually a form of magic? Yeah, it's very confusing. But at least there are a few male character to balance the two main lightsideish females, and the one darkside female character.

In the other one, it's straight out fantasy, and the main character's parents die very early on. I mean like chapter two. But I'm not exactly a great writer in that genre, and she hardly reacts, even though another character appears in to destract her awfully fast. I need to expand the scene, and could use tips on reacting to death of her entire family. I suppose the best way for you to understand what I mean by lack of reaction, you'd have to read the story. (PG13 for violence)

If anyone's interested in reviewing, I'm on fictionpress as Elf with a lightsaber.

I quite like this thread, lot's of good advice. Please help me here!

-Eowyn Skywalker

05-13-2004, 02:39 PM	#1
Eowyn Skywalker Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somewhere far, far away. Eh. Posts: 402	Ooooh... I've finally found a thread like this. Very helpful indeed, as I have been working on some fantasy and sci-fi stuff for quite a while in my spare time. In my main story, and by which I mean it has an awful lot of stories built off of it, the main characters are female, with very interesting pasts, and futures. My problem with this story is it works in the "Three Worlds", and I'm not sure whether the heavy fantasy base works with the other two worlds, of Terra/Earth, and the future, which is very Star Wars like. Does anyone have any good tips on combining fantasy with sci-fi, and not giving the sci-fi characters a heck of an edge, even though their technology is actually a form of magic? Yeah, it's very confusing. But at least there are a few male character to balance the two main lightsideish females, and the one darkside female character. In the other one, it's straight out fantasy, and the main character's parents die very early on. I mean like chapter two. But I'm not exactly a great writer in that genre, and she hardly reacts, even though another character appears in to destract her awfully fast. I need to expand the scene, and could use tips on reacting to death of her entire family. I suppose the best way for you to understand what I mean by lack of reaction, you'd have to read the story. (PG13 for violence) If anyone's interested in reviewing, I'm on fictionpress as Elf with a lightsaber. I quite like this thread, lot's of good advice. Please help me here! -Eowyn Skywalker __________________ Sometimes worlds collide. This time, they got their own webpage. Join Middle-earth: Insanity forums today.