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I always loved fantasy genre, so I'm naturaly attracted to fictional magical worlds. However, I don't like when there is an overflow with magic in form of spells, incantations and rituals - sometimes it's too confusing. Besides, I hate how magic conveniently solves all major problems in fantasy stories. Basically, I prefer it to stay in the background.

Malgorzata Wyrwas | October 13, 2013

What if magic was like a really big part of it. Would it be different if magic was only used at the end of the story instead of throughout the story.

Emma Amos | October 14, 2013

I think it's not the issue when the magic is being used, but more of its form. In the books of "Sword and Magic" genre, I prefer the sword type: military strategy over battling with spells, although a pinch of sorcery is fine. I don't like when everything can be fixed with magic, like all wounds healed, the villain killed with a magical beam. I prefer the old fashioned way - with a good axe. I'm allergoc to wizards, but magical creatures are a different story (come on, who doesn't like dragons?).

Malgorzata Wyrwas | October 14, 2013

dragons are awesome

Emma Amos | October 16, 2013

I love stories that are filled with magic, however, like any story it has to be balanced with other things. Whether it be war, romance, mystery. Its all good :)

S.D Stevens | October 16, 2013

i like when magic is mixed with romance or conflict or even betrayal

Emma Amos | October 16, 2013

I write mostly fantasy-supernatural stories sooooo I guess I would have to say I love them. So long as they are really interesting and not just a bunch of love and mushy stuff. I like action in it too. :)

Elizia Brittian | October 23, 2013

I love them. Really, anything is better with magic! But really, the other people like Malgorzata Wyrwas are right. Magic can't solve ALL the problems. I personally prefer a few magical creatures like dragons here and there instead of a world-saving spell that conveniently falls into the protagonists hands when they need it. Magic is the best thing ever. It just needs to be done right. That's my opinion anyway. First comment. yay.

Lauren The Chicken | October 24, 2013

Oh yeah... ouch -winces- World saving spell? Mary Sue alert. @_@

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

I think its cool. i also like the kind of stories where there's magic but the main person isn't aware that the evil person that used magic to destroy things is actually them. sorry, i know sounds a bit confusing

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Oh you mean like double personality or future self against past self?

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

Yeah or like twins who were actually always just one person

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

I find that to be both a creepy concept, and an overused one. It must have a twist of sorts.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

You really think its creepy. what if it was twins but they weren't human. more like one was light and one was dark. say there was like a massive collision like a war but not a war and dark was winning. then the light used everything she had and finally managed to seal her twin supposedly forever but she uses too much power and even though the dark has been stopped, the light gets sent to an alternate reality with no memories of anything.

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Yup, definitely creepy. In a good sort of creepy way, but nonetheless, creepy.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

would it still be creepy if the land was made of candy.

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

creepier, actually. "I just sealed the dark side of myself away and have amnesia. What's this world made of? Edible sweet stuff?"

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

would it be worse if the light found the world she belonged in and still didn't remember anything and then she finds a giant jack-in-the-box with a seal on it and she warned not to go near it because the giant jack-in-the-box is actually where she sealed her evil twin before she lost her memory

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Yeah, definitely sensing the creepy. o3o

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

would it be less creepy if the people that lived there were special kinds of dwarves and elves

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

You misunderstand my meaning. Creepy is not bad or good, it's just creepy. If something is creepy, it might even have an eerie sort of charm. And I think the dwarves and elves would actually make it creepier. Go figure.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

i see. so dwarves mining for fudge is eerie not creepy. thanks

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

eerie and creepy are synonyms.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

but mixing eerie with fantasy is not a bad thing if you ask me

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Never said it was.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

i know. just wanted to know what you thought was all ^_^

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

I think it sounds creepy.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

good creepy or bad creepy

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

neutral creepy. Neither here nor there, just good old neither nor creepy.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

ok. thanks ^_^

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

-waves off- no probs. ... -pokes your cheek- Squeeeeesh. o3o

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

I'll start writing it next week. got two others to work on at the moment

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

I have two main stories, Sensa Nome and A Dreamgiver's Tale. Neither are published here yet. I will publish them soon though.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

I have 3 stories published on here at the moment. only 1 is completed though

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

-giggles- None of mine are completed. I haven't even breached the second major point in the rising action on my main [a pox upon novel length writings]

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

its cool. you should take your time

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

I am. @_@ it's aggravatingly slow.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

i'm going to uni next year. i want what i write to be sold in a bookstore

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Yeah, that'd be super cool ^^

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

what i'm hoping for

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Publishers are tough though, I'd suggest getting a lit agent first. Noveljoy actually has a section for looking up lit agents, I'd give it a look see if I were you. I haven't yet, but that's because I don't have a nearly finished story to present.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

I'll do that.thanks

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

No problem, I practically live on Noveljoy so I know there are plenty of things you can find on there. It was only created about a year or so back so it's a baby site like this one, only a little older. A lot of the features it has now weren't there when it began. The Publishers section is fairly new, so is the Live Chat [that no one uses, to my knowledge xD] and so are the Group pages [also sort of empty, I guess]

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

i'll check it out thanks

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Again, no probs. I live there xD Seriously peek in on the forums if you need proof of that fact.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

will do

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Oh Oh Oh It's magic! You know.... [sorry this was my brain's first response to the name of your topic] Anywho, me loves fantasy, so does myself and I. ^^ I just find it all so... inventive :D

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

I think it's amazing

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Their's a pretty broad range of it too ^^ What sorts are your favorite?

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

i like magic with like fairies and witches and things like that. Then there's the dark side of magic which is also cool. what about you

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

I like magic with spirits and demons and soothsaying and all kinds of races an d magical folk, but also in the fantasy genre I like worlds that are dreamy [I haven't published it yet, but one of my main stories occurs completely within the Dreamscape]

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

Cool ^_^ i love magical creatures

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

I wouldn't really call it "magic" per se, it's more dreamy. Like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland sort of fantastical.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

awesome. i love alice in wonderland

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Me <3 Lewis Carroll. My favorite author of all time. I won't go on too much longer about how I'm a crazy fangirl for him, but let's just say that if I could go back in time I would go to the Victorian Era *just* to marry him. And he wouldn't have a choice in the matter. I'd get him drunk and drag his butt to Vegas. o3o

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

did you see tim burton's version of alice in wonderland

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Yeah, and I despised most of it. Love Tim Burton to death, but there's no excuse for plaigarism.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

are you going to see the 2nd one

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

....There's... a second one... T_T Did I not make my opinion on the first clear enough?

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

so you're not going to see it

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

I really don't know if I will, but as I just said, the first was plagiarized, and I don't approve of stealing other people's work and using it for your own [and I don't mean taking from the original media, I mean taking from other Alice renditions]

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

i see what you mean. it did just look like the original lewis carol one but darker

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

No, it wasn't anything like the original by Lewis Carroll. It borrowed plot lines and visuals from American McGee's first Alice game and the concept of the world being "real" and Alice having amnesia about it came from The Looking Glass Wars.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

the storyline kinda seemed the same to me. plagiarism is still wrong though

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

The story line wasn't at all the same. There were no battles in the original Alice in Wonderland. She was just a 7-year old experiencing a dream. And by god, I may love Anne Hathaway's work, but I cannot stand what they did to the White Queen.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

the white queen seemed a bit pathetic to me

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Oh, she was supposed to be pathetic, but she was also supposed to be from Through the Looking Glass and her counterpart was the Red Queen, not the Queen of Hearts [They are not interchangeable in the original books, the only place where they were was in American McGee's Alice. Go figure]. Otherwise, the reason I despised what they did to her was because of a particularly aggravating trait--Tim Burton's White Queen didn't live backwards, the original did.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

i get it. i see why you'd be annoyed

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Yup. ^^ That and I loved the Alice games by American McGee so stealing plot lines and visuals from them is something I really don't appreciate.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

I get it. I saw an alice and wonderland game and i was going to get it but then i saw the trailer and it completely freaked me out so i didn't buy it

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Ah, that's probably American McGee's then. Dark and spooky psychological mind fuck. Complete with lots of blood and gore ^^ It's a fantastic plot line though, for both games. So much gameplay, so many awesome reveals, so many fantastic quotes, banging costumes... it's a spooky Wonderland lover playground :D

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

could have been. i think the game was called Alice madness returns

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Yeah that's the second one. The first was made in 2000, and it follows Alice through her Wonderland hallucination in Rutledge Asylum as she travels through Wonderland to find a specific weapon to defeat the Jabberwocky and in turn, the Red Queen/Queen of Hearts [hint hint: sound familiar?]

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

sounds very familiar. have you played the game

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

It should sound familiar because that literally the near exact plot of the Tim Burton flick [which came out in 2010] Anywho, yes, I've played and finished the first Alice on easy, haven't managed normal, hard or crazy yet. I haven't beaten Alice Madness returns yet, but I'm currently looking for all the collectibles.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

plagiarism is a crime

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Well, methinks he got away with it because they're different media and he combined it with other ideas [Alice Kingsley had amnesia like Princess Alyss in The Looking Glass Wars, and also the dream was supposedly real in the movie, whereas in American McGee's it was all a hallucination] Namely as you'll find out if you play the first and second Alice games, the Alice Liddell from those versions is a chronic schizophrenic.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

so there are differences between each one

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Barely present ones. Alice Kingsley is closer to how Princess Alyss is in The Looking Glass Wars [mind you, still taking from something else] and the world is "real" like in The Looking Glass Wars, but Alice getting the vorpal blade *specifically* and having to defeat the Jabberwocky once she has that? The only difference in all technicality is what the weapon is.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

not many differences then

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

The Alices are different, and I don't like Alice Kingsley, so that's not a plus for me.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

i see

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

-nods- You know, there were only 8 replies on this topic before we got to chatting -tilts head- It's probably somewhere in the 80s now...

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

big difference

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Da. Proof that I talk too much. o3o Well, in all fairness, I was only half of two conversations...

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

and i was the other half

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Yup. o3o I had another online friend that I got this crazy with. Well, I had two, but more to the point, one always replied to everything I posted on noveljoy. We aggravated the hell out of each other sometimes with the speed of our forum posting.

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

sounds fun

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

Definitely was. Especially when we got to role playing, that was when things got bat shit crazy. And we always managed to get off topic from the original post... there was one time when a new member rudely asked is we were all teenage girls and the topic went from wailing on him to a rp about flying carpets, TARDISes, danishes, and tea parties on the ceiling. o3o ... Anyway! -holds out hand- Friends?

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013

yeah, of course we're friends

Emma Amos | November 9, 2013

.... -stares blankly, and then hugs- Yay friends!! ^^

Melody Hallows | November 9, 2013