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I will place entries in my witchtember 2022 prompt list in the comments. If you are part of art groups you know these prompt lists are simple things. Someone places a word for each day and you as the artist then create. I find these to be easy thematically, but my imagination is wide. COnsider doing the same but with storytelling The prompt image and my entries are below. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2055&type=status

IF you are the producer of such a film, what do you tell the director to focus on in terms of themes? My extended thoughts https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2056&type=status

The Journey of the tale of arthur of wales Tell me something I don't know? What tale representing the culture of your great grandparents do you know? Read the complete article using the link below https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2047&type=status

The Lovecraft festival and living peacefully enjoying the art while disliking the artist Read the complete article using the link below https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2046&type=status

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@Pioneer1 On anything I post you don't need to say your sorry for the way in which you adore an individual or group I am showcasing. I ask no one to think like me or to think like another outside themselves.

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@Troy the following are the two ideas Like make a story through tweets, if one writer made twilight through text messages all of us just passing the story along can make something. And it doesn't even require grand management. and this , I will submit a poem to killens but I will like it if we all did. Then we can post all our poems in one forum posts by placing our poems in the comments.

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I want to know to whomever is reading, if someone asked you to write a story, what is your words per dollar rate?

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third replier interesting. my reply yeah, also, maybe the orcs need new tribes. In the USA the one historical fact, that I think many people in the USA continually deny, is that in every race in the USA, tribes exist, and usually they are not in positive concert. In Tolkien's world, the elves don't infight. The dwarves don't infight. Even the humans, for all of the stewards ways, do not really infight. The best infighting is from the orcs but even that is in my view, lacking honest friction between the tribes in a race. IN AMENDMENT Many fans of works like Tolkien may say it is against the grain but that is the USA. In the war of independence, some natives fought for the creation of the usa, some natives fought to stop it from being created. some blacks fought for the creation of the usa, some blacks fought to stop it from being created. some white fought for the creation of the usa. some whites fought to stop it from being created. I think many in the USA create a myth in their mind that, the USA was and is a dream everybody wants or desires. it wasn't and isn't. Maybe you don't need new races, but for all the orcs that fight for sauron and attack anyone living peacefully? Where are the orcs that do not? For all the dwarves that live the "drawf live" and have a pride where are those who do not? And in those that do not reside the others where appearance will probably change as well

third replier My main issue is the races etc. using the standard dwarves, elves, hobbits, etc. just seems lazy. So working out new and unexpected races, govt, etc. I'm well on the way with all of it, it just takes time to do all the world building before doing the narrative side. .. I've been thinking about it for 30+ years. but just got serious recently My comment hmm well, I will be devil's advocate and say, maybe dwarves/elves/hobbits/ et cetera are not lazy. Maybe the old races need new and unexpected tribes. IN AMENDMENT We see this in the am*zon version of tolkien's work. While many will praise the vision as pan phenotypical or pan racial. One must ask, but why the one tribe. Why is the black elf queen so communally comfortable? Now some will say that is the point. But that misses that modern USA was made with most people in the Indigenous/Black descendent of enslaved/white descended of enslavers who were or are opposed to the miscegenist culture that the minorities in each community pushed for. But that goes back to the problem with the simple good or bad dichotomy .... and to all artist who may read this. Epiphany has no time limit.

third replier Ever since I first read Tolkien and C.S. Lewis I've been considering the idea of an american fantasy world thing. just haven't worked it out yet to my own satisfaction. My Reply yeah, I have only thought about it in the last few months. I am willing to chat about your considerations. Tell me what is stumping you. What isn't meeting your satisfaction. Remember, Tolkien and CS lewis and Dianne wynn jones helped each other. Threw ideas at each other. I am willing to offer my ideas at where you may feel uncertai. IN AMENDMENT From my own scribbles I admit one reality. if anyone wants to mirror the USA in a fantasy world like the one's lewis or tolkien created, the good evil dichotomy has to be erased. It is too simple. The USA has always been to some mordor and to others Gondor. I think it is clear the media lords in the USA wants a soap opera/telenovela detailed fantasy world, aka high fantasy, that reflects the USA, but none really exist. From the comments I received it is clear one problem is the ancient old nature of most epic fantasy doesn't apply to the USA. The USA isn't the country from ancient times. It isn't a return to a great ancient country. The USA is similar to the roman empire in population multiraciality. But, It is a country that went from a white power country at its nascent to a country that welcomes the changes from the strangers as well as the people in it. but, wrapping that in a fantasy context as the good country is against the grain. To be blunt, using example, the USA as a fantasy country is not the country where the orcs die with sauron. it is where the orcs become part of gondor. but then the idea of the evil in orcs doesn't fit. The miscegenation of the USA doesn't allow the dichotomy of good side evil that tends to be placed on characters in telenovela fantasy.

the second replier A friend suggests: "Manly Wade Wellman's 'Silver John' stories are set in the Appalachian backwoods and feature fantastic events based on the folklore of the region. Other 'Appalachian Fantasy' series include Alex Bledsoe's Tales of the Tufa, which focuses on The Fair Folk as Appalachians knew them, and D. J. Butler's Witchy War, an alternate Antebellum America with working folk magic." My reply thank you:) The USA was founded on its east coast by british colonies. Those colonialist ventured into appalachia before the creation of the USA. I think you... or your friend:) thank them please, have provided the first example by repliers to a story that is not circling the 1900s as a base setting. IN AMENDMENT The question to all the stories all the commentors have presented is, are these stories the USA. Dark Tower/Atlas Shrugged/Star Wars/ Indigenous tales/ are these fantasy worlds the USA or people in the USA. the third replier technically atlas shrugged is the past because of the setting with trains being a major industry. a lot of what is in the book would appear to be late 1800s to 1920s era My Reply excellent point. And to be blunt, the comments from here and there online prove united on the idea that the fantasy world that reflects the USA will have a nearness. The 1800s 1900s sense of industrialization will have to be present in any fantasy world that reflects the USA . IN AMENDMENT I am getting a clear picture from the comments. And it explains why modern media is trying to push USA into non -USA fantasy worlds. Because any USA fantasy world will not have the agrarian or ancient appeal that some of the most popular fantasy worlds do.

The third replier again also, these are just the ones off the top of my head that I could think of without digging around. I'm sure that there are others that likely focus on indigenous people etc. They might not be high fantasy like LoTR etc. but they mystical nature surrounding various tribes and their connection to the land etc. certainly are in line with fantasy works mechanics. My reply Well, I admit my goal here is to inquire about a fantasy world that reflects the USA. In my mind I can speak of the Navajo myths or legends and bring fantasy from that. The gullah or geechee people of the carolinas have fantasy that can be built from their lore. But, Are those reflecting the USA or a people in the usa? I don't know. I don't think said question is straight forward either. I love the work from zora neale hurston, every tongue has to confess. The oldest straight from the horses mouth fable/fantasy/fiction from Black peoples who were enslaved or whose forebears were enslaved in the USA. but regardless of whether I can derive fantasy from that. which I can:) Is that fantasy the USA? I don't know. I will not say no or yes, but I think any answer is challengable. Thus my own agenda here I have relayed somewhat IN AMENDMENT Can a fantasy world reflecting a country like the USA be just from one community in it? That goes back to Wizard of OZ. I don't know. I think the USA has many peoples with fantasy from their community but the USA itself doesn't have so much.