Re: Fantasy: Creating Monsters, creatures, and beasts
Everyone has given great advice; to help jumpstart your creative process, I thought I'd throw in these sites:http://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/http://www.mythicalcreatureslist.com/index.php
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What is the conflict? What does the monster do? Does it eat children? (Pennywise) Guard a hidden treasure? (dragons) Is it monstrous due to sheer physical power (giant humans and animals), magic...
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Creating creatures is one of my favorite parts of writing fantasy :) When I go at it, I usually like to think of the setting, the place where the creature will live, first of all. Then I think of types...
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It's rather hard to explain the thought process. Let go of everything you know? I guess that's kind of along the lines of what I do. A lot of it come from dreams - or daydreams. Imagine a lot. You have...
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Agreeing with previous posters. Decide what you want the animal to be or do: is it a guardian animal or a housepet? Is it unique - created by magic or a freak event - or is a breeding population? At...
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I'm considering writing a Greek-based fantasy, so any new monsters will be similar to what the Greeks came up with already. E.g. the mymidons are based on ants made into humans. Think of fleas made...
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The first thing I do is think about what I need them to do. What is the feel I'm going for? Am I trying to inspire awe, fear, a tingling sense of "something here isn't quite right"? What problem do...
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Moving to Fantasy - you should get more responses here!
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I've been trying to create fiction monsters, creatures, and beasts for my fantasy novel but I haven't had much luck. I've never really been that good at it. I didn't know if you all had found a method...
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