Writing fantasy: A question for you.
I love writing fantasy, and I’m always looking for helpful books and links. So, I’d love for you to share with us some of your favorite research books, and site links. Do you have anything special on names, concepts, mythology, characterization…etc? A book you pick up time and again for help? An Internet link you’re constantly clicking through to do research?
Until later~
Mel
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3 comments:
www.sacred-texts.com is a wonderful resource! It has a full library of mythology, sacred, folkloric texts from cultures around the world.
I love Wikipedia, www.en.wikipedia.org. It's where I start to research anything these days. Theoi.com, www.theoi.com, is great for mythology, because it posts the relevant excerpts from the classical texts. There's nothing like going to the source, even if it has to be in English. (Can't read Greek, unfortunately.)
Been so caught up in plotting the next book in my mythology series, haven't gone looking for other resources yet. But the book will require research on everything from NYU's Anthropology Department to beekeeping, cult hostage situations and bonobo chimps. So I'll be collecting lots more stuff soon.
Cheers,
Charlee Boyett-Compo has an amazing page of research links for writers.
http://www.windlegends.org/WritersResearchPages.html
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