Sherlock Holmes

Wheat bread, I imagine, though I suppose it could be barley.

Amazing bread ahead

Day five: bread sword

My day four: If you'd like, I can help you get the right colours. I have Photoshop, it's a lot easier to mess around with colours and stuff.

Ah, interesting. Thanks for answering my question.

Nice! Are the people who use these weapons given to wrapping their grips with cloth, or do they just deal with all the jaggedy bits?

Alright. Is there a common theme the effects circle around, like fire or water or something of that sort?

How individual is this system? Do different people have different expressions of their emotions (like one person summons shards of glass and another becomes unbearably hot)?

Digital, using Photoshop. I have a Gaomon tablet. I make most of my painterly stuff with the same brush, from a brush set called "brushes_for_photoshop_by_rav89". There are like two other brushes I use for everything else.

Day three's sword, inspired by Sir Alonne from Dark Souls II. I invite you to try, it's fun even if you're just learning.

I'd certainly be interested to see what you do if you do it.

Rock candy sword, pft. Thanks for the compliment, as well.

Day two, made while watching Princess Mononoke. If you haven't seen it, go watch it immediately.

Well, it's not exactly something you "choose" to use. Generally, the people who are the best with it spend very little time around other people or spend most of their time around small groups of people. Being in very wild places encourages its growth, while places with fewer plants and animals (cities, towns, any place that is highly populated) discourages its growth. Therefore, the people who are most keen with it tend to use it mostly to make sure babies are delivered safely and to keep track of their children and animals. There are some few people who use it for explicitly scholarly purposes, but even those who do can only make so much use of it because of the world's technology level. People who would make excellent doctors and scholars are most often just living their people group's life out in the plains or forests or mountains.

Thanks! I don't know who that is, but I thought it said Havel, so I'll roll with that. Havel puts away that obnoxious hammer and uses my dinky little sword instead.

Talanthir has a population of about 17,600,000 and maybe two million of those people are capable of using the magic, but the vast majority are very weak with it. One's skill with it depends on the amount of time you've spent honing it, which is mostly done through meditation and focus; someone who is good with this magic will rarely be a warrior but will instead choose to use it for intellectual or healing purposes. It makes its users especially aware of other people's pain, even those who are very weak with it, so just being someone who technically can use it can be debilitating in battle.

Hello! This September, I am participating in a challenge where you draw a sword by a certain theme every day. I'll post my artworks here, and if anyone else wants to participate, you can post yours here too! Below is the list of prompts. Feel free to mess around with them if you want to. Here's my day one:

I went with a weird route with my magic. There's almost no one who can use it and most of its effects on the world fit in pretty naturally with geology and biology, so it's hard to tell what has and hasn't been magically affected. There is a certain ethnicity of people with a pseudo-magical ability, but this ability is pretty weak and rarely discussed or taken much advantage of.

For me, I made each doc of the book fifty pages long, and described what generally happened in each set of fifty pages, assuming the total was five hundred pages. This was incomplete, since the final was six hundred and fifty pages, but much of the content stayed the same. Even still, I came up with a lot of stuff while writing.

Outlines are definitely helpful in creating books. My outline for the first draft was pretty short but covered all of the content. The second outline was chapter by chapter, and I expect the third will be even more specific.

Before I finished the first draft of my book, I estimated that it'd be like 330K. It's interesting to me how this sort of thing can change over time.

How long do you want each book to be? My first book, Bloodbound, was 431K when finished and I expect the following two to be of similar length. I just can't help but write in a really winding, slow way.

I've read through both posts and I think they're interesting. Since no one is interested in making conlangs, maybe I should just post about my world. That could attract some attention, I suppose. What's your plan for writing your trilogy?

I've been making the world for a hot five years, so I have a fair bit to write down. There's a good deal of information I've kept in my head all this time, so I figure it's worth it to write all that nonsense down. What is your worldbuilding like?

My book is the first in a trilogy as well and is arguably low fantasy. It's also obscenely long. The world it's set in has been extensively worldbuilt, since I'm a little bit crazy. I'm presently working on the area-by-area worldbuilding, as seen below.