Welcome back Mr. Space Cheese, I hope you enjoyed your holidays.

I notice there's a plethora of formerly unknown (to me) WRI-TING TALENT in this thread. Which is not surprising considering the odes and sagas some have bestowed upon us.

As for me, my guilty embarrasing pleasure is fanfiction.

Ahem.

Before you start, let me say that there is such a thing as good fanfiction. However it is found at the bottom of a pit of sewage-like writing that it's seldom worth the effort to search for it. Yes most fanfics are bad, really bad. I try to read them from an ironic point of view, to MST3K'ify them, but even with that mindset most of them are rubbish. They don't even manage to be "so bad it's good" material, they're just regular bad, and their worst offences are being both boring and embarrasing to read.

However there are some gems from quite talented writers that are a delight to read.

I prefer to read than write. There's enough bad writing out there already. However sometimes, I read a story with an interesting premise, but a disappointing development. At which point my mind begins to wander about what could have been. Atnd then, the plot bunnies attack.

A small recommendation: I found out about this particular author who's writing a crossover fic, with two extremely unlikely franchises. And succeeds at melding them perfectly by showing us how ridiculous that mix actually is. You could say that the whole fic is a huge lampshade hanging. One that never stops being funny.

I did, war wabbit, and hope yours were likewise pleasant!

I am a dilettante writer myself, mostly fairytales and speculative fiction. A lot of my passion is in creating the framework of a fictional universe and writing the "world bible", which I see others here also enjoy. I am less accomplished at characterisation, and fairly abysmal at dialogue, so it's the world which tends to stand out in my writing. If anything can be said to stand out in it, that is.

Hello Sinistar MK III ver. 2.015 and happy new year to you. Mine seems fine so far.

Yeah, they are all good points. Right now I kind of see the gods and religion side of it being a bit like you describe but it's the nuts and bolts of spirits and afterlife and there interaction with magic that I struggle with a bit.
Particularly as my god like races have been driven from the world in my mythology, but I want them to be able to come back. Which would suggest some kind of re-incarnation or travel between realms, but I don't particularly want the mortal races to reincarnate (not as a rule anyway). It's also possible to inter breed between humans and gods and between the various mortal races (elves, humans, dwarves) and I struggle with how that works with souls... is a demi god a human soul or a gods soul? Or something else? Are all souls the same, and if they are why can the gods come back but regular mortals can't?
So I struggle with a system that reconciles everything I want it to do while making any kind of sense XD
But I think I'm almost there...

Morning All.
Where's Crow?

He's not around, which is a problem. The pigeons are starting to roost.

Glad to hear it! We both have felicitous rep numbers this day as well, if I can speak on the unspeakable topic.

I was going to congratulate you on 1500 but wanted someone else to bring up the "unspeakable topic" first. ;)

Must be still in bed nearly 11am there,I'll bet his gone out.

Why should it be an unspeakable topic? Last time I checked we could take about everything in this thread :P

I thought that rep was unspeakable only when someone was complaining about losing it. :P

He could be busy playing through some of his backlog too...

Howdy,
Yeah he could be,certainly loves his games:-)

Lol, we should all get together and create the most well designed fantasy world since LoTR ;)

Then get someone else to right the actual stories in it XD