geminye

I was sitting down one day, and tried to come up with some of the things in the books i have read that made them interesting (mostly visuals i guess, not plot aspects.) Here is the list that i've compiled for myself:

Things with horns
Things with wings
Personification of inanimate objects
Lions
Half men, Half beasts
Talking Animals
Lush & Dark Forests
Wolves
Retro-Mechanics (steampunk)
Cryptic Writing
Mazes
Cyclopean Architecture
Were-wolves (shapeshifters)
Leviathan (plural?)
Swords
Masks
Quiet and introverted characters
Long journeys
Epic Battles
Messianic characters
Skulls
Bats
Moonlight
Slimy, crawling, hidden things in the dark
Mountanous Plains...

It helps me to come up with these kinds of lists so i can write somethig that i would want to read. How about everyone else? It doesn't have to be comprehensive. Just let it rip...

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Shavixmir

Very interesting; on various levels:
- Mountanous plains?
- Steam punk?

Mountainous plains? It does make me think of Darjeeling and gazing upon Mt. Everest and realizing there's the plateau behind the high-rise range. But, other than that it's such a contradiction, it doesn't seem like something anyone would come up with.

Steam punk? Never heard of it...

I guess what inspires me though is:
- Small US villages
- The friction between giving and receiving attention
- P.I.'s
- Creationists
- The priory of Sion

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geminye

Steam punk is retro tech. Robots that work on steam power, or clockwork. That kind of stuff.
When i was thinking of mountainous plains i was thinking of a large valley surrounded by mountains on all sides. I guess Large Valley would be better?

What is the priory of sion?

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ClancyBoy

If you could somehow work all of those ideas in it would be the best story ever.

Except can you make the skull a character and give it horns and bat wings and wear a mask and make it say messianic things? Also you can have it fight with a magic sword that it holds with its tongue. Also it's invincible. Because that would be badass.

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lin

I don't know of many fictional elements. Except possibly that my brother was totally convinced that there was something called "Strutonium" in milk that would cause cancer.

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ClancyBoy

Also everything Ivan Reitman directs references selenium somehow.

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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.

Summerhaze

all of those aren't fiction elements, they're fantacy elements. There is a differenece. I prefer fiction over nonfiction, but I HATE fantacy. just thought I'd let you know.

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Slay Ride

its fantasy and no theres no difference except labels.

elements I like:
villages in either Europe or America
cults
cryptozoology
paranormal activity
personification of emotions or concepts

Shavixmir

It's a secret brotherhood in France which protects the bloodline of Jesus (who had a son) which also ran through their royal family at one point.
The Davinci Code, for example, refers to this order.

All very well, secret societies are dime a dozen... however the priory of sion is special!
It's an elaborate hoax (admitted by the person who planted all the material to make the deception stick) by a man who wanted to "connect" himself with the bloodline of French Kings, so that he could, one day, claim the throne.

So, even though the man who created the hoax admits it is a hoax, conspiracy theorists all over the world still believe that this priory of sion still exists!
That's why I find it so interesting.

It's well worth a google search.

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wyf

i like mind games and the transfer of power between people