Hello, I'm new to Holy Worlds and have an idea I would like to do. You see, I'm a graphic novelist, and I have yet to get published. Well, mainly it's because I have yet to finish my manga. I want to do this sort of ongoing excercise to improve my story development.

I want to write a story on the forums in a specific world. No copyright, and anyone can jump in. A fun project that could help me and others to improve our ability's.

The rules will be pretty much the same as the forums, and constructive criticism will be accepted on a separate topic. I, and anyone else, will write a number of short stories based in the story world. Ideas used in the world will be PUBLIC PROPERTY, or, at least the property of Holy Worlds. If someone uses something from their own stories, they need only say that it is theirs, and no one else can touch it. Also, any history written for the world, written by anyone, would be canon. So you can't say this rune was destroyed like this, while someone else said it was destroyed like this, unless it is a matter of the character's perception.

The world I have in mind is an allegorical world. Much like Narnia with few cities mostly covered in woods and wilderness. There will be no use of already existing races: Elves, Dwarves, etc. Instead, people will be allowed to make any race they want within reason. Only some animals can talk, and I have a magic system that I would like to use for it.

I would rather not use a magic system, but rather use people born with special talent, much like super powers, like being able to control fire or being very strong. I think that would be the best thing we could do.

The term "god", (little G, even at the beginning of a sentence), refers to angel-like spirits that govern over woods, rivers, mountains, etc. While evil gods are demon-like beings who rebel against God, (Big G) the source of all existence and tempt man into evil, or they will no longer be able to exist.

Please tell me if I can do this and feel free to critique this idea. I plan to do this as a bit of a just for fun excercise and hope you will be willing to let me. I also would like to know where to begin writing it as well as where to place the criticism thread.

Yeah, you can do this. I have a similar one one the science-fiction side. Stories can usually be posted in Story Excerpts, and a lot of stuff can be done here in this thread, I think.

Thank you, where do I set it up? First, I will want some basic ideas to be thrown around to make sure the world is coherent and properly christian in allegory. Such as the good gods representing the laws of nature and God's command over them, representing God's power of nature, ect. Any ideas that others have, like how the "Magic" should work for instance. I have two cool ideas.

Talents are superhuman abilities that some people are born with. Sometimes entire races are born with representing each person's natural gifts, and duty to use them for the betterment of humanity and the glory of God.

Or a system that uses sacred words from the book of God (the Bible) which have the ability to command nature. The reason only some people can do this is because the book was lost long ago when man first rebelled against God.

I'm not sure which one is better, and doing both could work, but might become a little jumbled, so I would just prefer to use just one.

Also, I only want to see a very small number of a city's villages deep in wilderness, so I kinda want the governments to be feudal with a small number of community democracy's.That way no mater what it should be evident God could do a better job.

If anyone has any other ideas for this community would, they should list them and we can take a poll. If not, I'll just build it and post my ideas and ask everyone's opinions, so whichever is fine.

Set it up? This thread works good for that, I think.

OK, well, what I meant was, where do I post the actual story and critique threads?

Ah. In the "Fireside" forum, I think it's called over here.

Thankyou! I will get it started up tomorrow.

Cool. Good luck with this. These can be tricky.