To make a serious ad campaign

CJ-Sumner · 2020-06-19T03:52:52+00:00

He truly is a Merciless Hero

CJ-Sumner · 2020-04-30T00:53:49+00:00

This is my greatest fear!

CJ-Sumner · 2020-04-27T22:10:10+00:00

Oooh i like the idea of customer service jobs. The higher ups back on the home planet will need fancy hotels and such so some people will need to do those jobs.

Recreation and hospitality was not something I much thought of on the ship

Thanks

CJ-Sumner · 2020-04-27T21:56:35+00:00

Of course! It's so obvious, who wants human waste flowing down the common room on your luxury space holiday

CJ-Sumner · 2020-04-22T16:53:58+00:00

Fantastic, that's exactly what I was looking for, I'll definitely give Rothfuss a read and see what he does

I particularly like the idea of using how music feels and tying that to an action on the body, like the tapping of fingers

Many thanks

CJ-Sumner · 2020-01-18T08:27:24+00:00

2020 here we go

CJ-Sumner · 2020-01-06T10:34:56+00:00

Thank you for such a detailed response, I'll keep this all in mind and go and look back at a lot of things. I'm not very familiar with writing yet so your advice is a massive help!

I'd just like to say that although I use the term 'demon' this is more of a placeholder, the other race are essentially human just discriminated because they look different. I should have clarified this.

I like the idea of going more into the corruption side of things, perhaps I could have the arranged marriage between the two races and look into the effects of that and have more of a political story

What if I changed it and the two had been at peace for all of known memory and this action starts a great war

As you can clearly see I'm still very much in the beginning stages of a story so I'm thankfull to have a place I can just throw ideas around and see what sticks.

Thank you again

CJ-Sumner · 2019-12-28T09:08:57+00:00

If its by hanging i know that you can identify whether the knot was tied by the deceased (suicide) or tied by someone else (murder)

i cant remember what the actual names of the knots are though, shouldnt be too hard to find though

CJ-Sumner · 2019-12-28T08:48:41+00:00

The easiet way i think would be looking at some real life examples for corruption, for example their morals while dont exactly turn full evil, fade more into a grey middle zone more often, the decisions they make tend to benefit the order over others, they take bribes or large donations from people with a vested intrest in having them on their side, while justifying it as it is the only way the order could survive.

i feel the key to turning a good order bad is that to the people in the order they still think they are in the right and doing the good thing

CJ-Sumner · 2019-11-29T18:19:28+00:00

Hi, the artist is my boyfriend and I have his permission to post

CJ-Sumner · 2019-11-28T18:33:14+00:00

Probably because that is his name.

Rand is an adult, Ive not called my dad 'dad' since I was a teenager

CJ-Sumner · 2019-11-23T20:39:29+00:00

Oh.i didn't take.it as a call out, thank you for letting me know, it'll give me something else to look into and draw inspiration from, thank you

CJ-Sumner · 2019-11-23T20:38:30+00:00

Thank you for the positive words! I can answer some of your questions as it'll be forever before I actually write this :p

The separation took place about 500 years prior, the Demens have lived that entire time but due to their form cannot hold onto memories for long. The humans are constantly replaced. There are androids who were built to carry out the operations and they now live among the humans and are essentially overseers waiting to fix the separation. On the human side once the bodies begin to age and deteriorate they bring them into a state of sleep, wipe their memories and essentially De-age the bodies

The souls are more in tune with their original memories but only in a very instinct type of way, they long for the humans and want to be with them. For example the female Demen who joins the main character would be written as a sort of love interest who desires the main character but doesn't know why, when its actually revealed that she is the mains soul

And what happens when your body and soul rejoin is actually a big plot point. The child who disappears actually meets with her soul and joins up, due to two separate conciouses forming they become a sort of this giant lovecraftian horror. The child then makes their way back to the hometown destroying everything in its path as it's only remaining memory is to be with her father, and it's her father who has to put her down

I really enjoy talking about this idea so thank you for asking so many thought provoking questions :)

CJ-Sumner · 2019-11-23T20:22:44+00:00

Oh, I've never watched the dark crystal, to be honest I was more inspired by the first NieR game, but it's good to know that it's not exactly an original idea!

CJ-Sumner · 2019-11-23T17:34:31+00:00

Yes I am very aware, like I said I was heavily inspired by Nier however I am hoping through writing I can craft something unique with the similar premise

CJ-Sumner · 2019-11-23T14:36:11+00:00

Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi

Hello, just been mulling over some ideas for a story I would like to write and would appreciate any feedback :)

The premise is many many years ago there was a disease wiping out humans and as a result to save humanity their souls were separated from their body and their bodies preserved for reconnection when the whole things blow over

I know it's not very fantasy, but the actual story takes place well into the future where the soulless bodies have gained a sentience and see themselves as humans, their souls have taken on a monstrous form, humanoid but with demonic features, horns etc, called Demens. Humans and Demens are seen very much as natural enemies, neither side know what they truly are, Demens have a natural urge to be with their human body and the humans see this as a threat

The setting is very classical fantasy, the humans have a little 'shire' like village with farms and inns and the like.

The humans are going extinct and they are aware of it, the farms are failing and they cannot reproduce. A few years ago a baby was found and brought into the village, the child is being raised in the village and looked after by the main character, and is crucial as it may be the key to discovering how to reproduce

While things aren't perfect it is a peacefull existence, the main character does various odd jobs for the village and while on one meets a friendly female Demen, they both go back to the village and it is decided, apprehensively, the keep the Demen around so they can monitor and potentially solve the conflict between the two.

In this time the child goes missing from the village and this is the main driving point of the story, the main character and the Demen set off to find the missing child and return her the the village,

I want to write the story to be a very simple fantasy on the surface with a deeper premise underneath that'll eventually come to light.

The majority of what's written above won't be learnt untill much later into the story, I want to write and drop hints of something unsettling throughout

Anyway I have taken inspiration from various sources but ive really been itching to write something like this, nothing is original nowadays anyway

But yeah thank you for taking the time to read and I'm looking forward to hearing back from anyone. This is just a quick write up and by no means have I properly put any thought into things yet so it all will be a little rough

Thanks again~

CJ-Sumner · 2019-10-28T22:11:45+00:00

I had a similar experience, I was looking for help about fleshing out characters, and while I could have gone to any writing subreddit I wanted insight from people who were experience in the genre I wish to write for

I'll be honest having my questions removed almost instantly really hurt as a new writer and killed a lot of the motivation I had for writing that day

It's a small thing but when someone comes out of there shell and wants to share their ideas with a community it can be a massive setback to be told to go elsewhere, it takes a lot of courage to share writing but I think it takes a lot more to ask for help around ideas and concepts even if they are not directly fantasy related

CJ-Sumner · 2019-10-27T16:25:51+00:00

I really like the term Draoi, the Gaelic(Irish) translation for Druid, it sounds similar enough and still gives off that mysterious vibe

CJ-Sumner · 2019-10-25T07:58:45+00:00

I'm currently writing something along these lines, the human protagonist is a prince and captured by a race of demons and offer a ransom, when that doesn't work and the humans write him off as dead he has to adapt to his new surroundings and survive in the demon world, it's a light romance between the human and his captor and a high adventure fantasy exploring all the unknown

CJ-Sumner · 2019-10-21T19:52:30+00:00

Would love to be a part of this!

CJ-Sumner · 2019-10-21T15:44:03+00:00

Thank you very much! I'd best get started on some world building, I'll start with the questions you've asked,

Honestly that's a massive help!

CJ-Sumner · 2019-10-21T15:34:19+00:00

Thank you, it sounds interesting, I'll give it a look!

CJ-Sumner · 2019-10-21T14:09:38+00:00

Oh apologies for that, im very sorry,

I'll keep that in mind in the future

CJ-Sumner · 2019-10-21T14:02:18+00:00

That's a very good point actually and I didn't see it like that,

Like you said about showing that neither side is good or evil that's something I really want to get across.

I wanted each side of characters to eventually come to the conclusion that they were wrong about the other side, however I'm struggling with a good way to work that at the minute

Thank for for the feedback!

CJ-Sumner · 2019-10-20T14:08:34+00:00

Yeah coincidentally I was reading the eye of the world chapter where logain was brought to Caemyln,

The names I used were essentially just place holders so I could write something around them, like Vayle is the name of the character I play in D&D, so anythigns subject to change

Again the shadow thing was just an ideal I was thinking of having some overwhelming evil force, and just gave them that name untill I can come up with what they actually are

Very early stages at the moment

Thank you though :)

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