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A good place for a website that will look professional, contemporary and slick/flash with little or no website knowledge is Free Website With Flash Website Builder at Wix.com not that I really wanna adverstise them, but I used to do my website myself using dreamwaver, FTP clients and all that...

A big bunch of resources of all sorts of fictional, mythical, folklore etc. names particualry good if you wanted to check if your names are original or need some inspiration..... Thousands of FANTASY NAMES - fairy, gnomes, elves, goblins, mystical, magic demons, vampires, witches, dragons...

*WARNING* spoiler alert! ( ...and a load of opinionated, soap box waffle ) Those ships were so badly designed specifically for a plot device. Poor, very poor. The cliché and stereotypical world that Emmrich lives in shames great story tellers everywhere. I hate to think if kids...

(Apologies if this has been posted before), You can self publish your own book - or get out of print books in 3 minutes... Obviously not better than having it professionally printed, but ideal if you wanted to create a mock up, or just print your work for yourself. has anyone had a go at...

The language of Avatar revealed BBC News - The language of Avatar revealed Might be of particular interest to the 'aspiring writers'. "It all started with what Professor Paul Frommer now describes as a "fateful e-mail." The linguistics expert from the University of Southern California is the...

this is a good site - dunno if it's been posted elsewhere on CN - anyway, the postcasts are worth a listen to.. Imaginary Worlds | Shakespeare and Dragons: Worldbuilding 101 Podcast

been playing around wit this of late - very handy and excellent tool! dunno if it's been posted here already, but great for creating solar systems that have correct calculations - particulary handy is getting the length on days and years (as well as the atmospheres) that will have influence on...

I just tried watching nearly 4 minutes, but not my thing. Sorry. I wanted to like it as I love the idea, but for me too disctracted by bad acting, annoying characters and the script was a rather laboured (I generally give comedies a bit of slack and I am a gamer so I hoped to relate) But too...

Fantasy Writing Tutorials and Technique Resources, at 'FARP', Tutorials another site with a bunch of useful articles going through the process of world building, but also general info on writing your fantasy novel.

Walk Time Calculator might come in handy. Aimed at present day walkers wanting to work out their journey, calculations are adapted from Naismiths Rule... "..a keen Victorian walker who applied a formula to calculate the time taken to do a walk. The rule is now widely recognised in the...

Apophysis is a good one. here's some stuff I did just trying it out. it's a free to download and theres a decent tutorial you can use Apophysis.org - Downloads Apophysis Tutorial - Getting Started the horizontal one is actually 2560 x 1024 I did for my dual monitor set up - I've got some...

EA partners with Red Eagle for Wheel of Time series // News Don't know if anyone posted anything about this already.. "Electronic Arts is to distribute multiple titles from Red Eagle based on The Wheel of Time books by fantasy author Robert Jordan. Last year, Red Eagle said it plans to...

Dave: :) no intention to take away any opportunites for the experts here to unleash their powers...just unfortunaltly I'm not one of them - my only contribution was that link.

oh by the way - Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback) Does briefly analyse Star Wars in structure of the journey and archtypes, as well as Pulp Fiction and a few others can't remember which ones though. if you can find it in book shop worth a flick through.

Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback) by Christopher Vogler (Author) has excellent explaination of all the Archetypes, worth checking out the whole book. Heres a website that as an explaination on the bit you're asking: Archetypes on the Path and here's an...

could try here Scifi Movies - Science Fiction Movies - Movies - AllExperts.com

I have New Novelist - though I have had a play about with it, it seemed a bit too formulaic at first, but good to begin with and get the process going and get some structure in place, then work into it. Mostly using Open Office Org - it's free! (version 3 out now). I like Word, but have yet to...

I share your concerns. I try to tell myself not to live my life through the expectations of others as I will never live up to it. Im worried that I may write something someone in my family may not like, but have to remember I'm not writing it for them but myself and hopefully,eventually for...

I find myself in the perfectionist area too. I hate watching, reading etc things that I may have specialist knowledge of but the writer clearly does not and has not even researched - or things just not making sense or are a thinly veiled plot device. So I take the 'treat other how you would...

Just saw Iron Man last night and really enjoyed it as superhero movies go. I think I prefer the superhero who doesn't have super powers -even though they have loads of cash and are brain boxes - Batman, Iron Man, it's more one you can relate and aspire to as its about the moral values and ideals...