Inspirational Music

Here's another segment I plan to introduce which is primarily about specific bands or songs in particular that hold a great interest to inspire vivid imagery and can help with the writing process.

Today's inspirational music is: Symphony X

I first stumbled onto Symphony X around 2001 or so. What started as a mild interest soon expanded into a grand love for their music. I have listened to the albums: Divine Wings of Tragedy, Twilight on Olympus, V: The New Mythology, The Odyssey, and Paradise Lost.

Every album has it's own unique style and theme. Though the theme itself is not entirely devoted to the album.

Dragons in Culture

Well, might as well discuss this topic considering it has been percolating in my head for a while.

Dragons. The mere word springs forth images of large reptilian beasts, some winged, some not. Some benevolent, others malevolent, etc.

But what exactly is the dragon, and why is it so tied into our cultures and subconscious?

Words of Wisdom

This is a section where I give a quote from an author about writing or life in general to help inspire or give knowledge to others.

Today's Quote is: "Every idea has already been done, it is merely how the person presents it that is new."

Record of Lodoss War OVA Review

Record of Lodoss War OVA has been one of the few animes I have seen that actually used a full fantasy based story and also focused primarily upon the story itself rather than allow the characters to continuously get into silly scenerios.

That is not to say such a thing is not a bad thing, but it can pull the viewer out of the experience sometimes.

The OVA is around 13 episodes and in entirity lasts aboutt 290 minutes, almost 5 hours long.

Separating the review into the usual catagories of visuals, story, sound, and overall.

Welcome

Hello all, and welcome to my little fantasy corner. This is my first blog and attempt at making a blog, so I will likely be learning as I go along.

Mostly I want this blog to be about my perspective on writing, the genres of writing (primarily science fiction and fantasy). Also I will include reviews on movies, videogames, tv shows, and books.

Another aspect I want to include is the concept of a topic, discussing and using the information on subjects within the area the topic is about. An example (and one I want to do eventually) is the influence of dragons in culture and how or why they are always the most popular out of so many mythical creatures.

So with that, I leave my first topic of discussion open to the commenter's.