Today's 'WANAfriday' prompt for consideration is this: If you could have one magical item, what would it be and why? I frequently daydream about someone asking me this question. Someone, that is, with the power to grant me my heart's desire. Because I totally know the answer. In fact, I confess I set the prompt … Continue reading If I could have one magical item…? That’s EASY!
Ambling through my A-Z of fantasy series, we come now to the letter 'G'... which stands for several key fantasy elements -- especially GRASSLAND. Grassland - A large open area of country covered with grass, especially one used for grazing. meadow - pasture - grass - pasturage - mead - prairie Lots of fantasy novels … Continue reading A-Z of fantasy: G is for Grassland
Our most recent session of Dungeons and Dragons was fun . . . but in the end not much 'happened'. We spent the entire evening (about 6 hours) on reconnaissance -- as just about every route we attempted to take proved a no go. Now, I've had various questions through the life of this series … Continue reading D&D Chronicles: Explaining the basics
I've recently been watching a lot of old Time Team episodes (a British TV show hosted by Tony Robinson in which a bunch of archaeologists excavate exciting things over three days). I think they have the best job ever. I absolutely love the fact there's so much history buried under pretty much every innocuous field or footpath … Continue reading How Time Team can help with fantasy worldbuilding
Today's blogging theme is WORDLE, the wonderful word cloud tool. After some contemplation, I decided to build a word cloud from all my blog posts with the tag worldbuilding. Cool, huh? I rather think this word cloud reflects the themes of my blog quite well. It's made from the following eleven posts (a total of … Continue reading Wordle on Worldbuilding
It's definitely travel week here on ye olde blog. Completely unplanned, I assure you! But, upon reflection, considering the tagline of 'To beyond and back', it's actually rather fitting. Today we're not peering into the past, however, but embracing the future according to this week's WANAFriday blog prompt: If you could travel anywhere, where would … Continue reading Anywhere I like? In the world?
Today's Friday blogging theme is: Share a book you can read again and again without getting bored. Well, I have to admit I'm a big re-reader of novels. Often I wish I wasn't, because just think of all the marvellous books out there I never seem to have time to read. But the simple fact … Continue reading My re-reading book: The Lions of Al-Rassan
It's been a long time coming, but here finally is the next in my A-Z of FANTASY series... And it's been rather tricky to decide which of the many 'F' fantasy words should get top billing. Should it be Forest -- A large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth ... in which many fantasy adventures … Continue reading F is for Faerie
Another long break between D&D sessions -- wah! -- but we finally got together again this weekend past for more adventures. We picked up where we left off, hanging out in a dark mountain chamber after killing a wraith... Our next move is to get out of there. We ascend the stairs leading up from … Continue reading D&D Chronicles: Tunnels and tons of rubble
With all the excitement post-Conflux, I've ended up almost forgetting to wrap up the big challenge for April -- Camp NaNoWriMo. The target was 25,000 words in 30 days, and once again I was on schedule -- ahead of schedule, actually, with around 21,500 words written with a week to go -- when I hit … Continue reading Postscript: Camp NaNoWriMo
Ellen Gregory 