ArdyThel

Sorry for the long reply I got signed out automatically or something and had trouble getting back in (Had to reset my password twice lol)

Why is Lybonrech spelled with random italicization and stuff?

Anyways, interesting to hear that you learned you were better at writing than you thought through school. I myself have had several writing assignments for school - none of which I finished lol. Prior to my mostly completed work, I wrote a single rough draft of an 18th century pirate story, which I never finished, and found only a year later to be comically bad, so much so that I'm glad the friend I shared it with never read it lol. But hey, I've got my new story which I am actually kinda proud of. So it's not technically the first thing I wrote, although if you wanna go way back there's always mario fan fiction I wrote when I was 9 XD

I'm currently in the process of writing Lybonrech, So it isn't published yet. =] That's a really cool idea! I hope it turns out well.

Ah, yes. I have had it in the past where I have written things for school and then found out that what I thought I couldn't write I actually could, as other students got away with it. And I think it's good that you are able to keep refining the world. It's hard to start actually writing when the world isn't ready yet. In my experience I usually get completely away from the plot because I'm still trying to work on the world at the same time.

I think that's amazing that you already have a full novel out there! For only writing for 13 months, that's really impressive. Have you written before for school or personally, or is this really your beginning of the writing journey for you?

Cool.

So is Lybonrech set in a fictional world but doesn't use SFF stuff but is still a sort of horror? That sounds cool - have you published or uploaded it yet? (That is, is it finished?)
I've been doing a non-SF/F story in a fictional world myself, working on one thousand-year story (With multiple time periods it's not just lore numbers but rather me wanting to use every tech level from Roman Antiquity to the Korean War) that follows basically one good country, the rise of another good country, and with immense theological depth the most evil-yet-not-cartoonish faction I could devise.

I've not written more than a few pages of my sci-fi stuff. Partially due to the fact that I chose fantasy for an assignment (A class wanted a submitted story, and well uh, I misinterpeted a rule about chat and thought they didn't allow guns so I didn't write down and present my sci-fi)
That and I'm using my fantasy partially as practice, as my Sci-Fi is meant to be a bit of a magnum opus, with some weird ideas other people keep not using - like... a space opera with a good government or a military that gets to be cool and not loose, or tactics that make sense and aren't just emoting - and I keep refining the world so I'm not sure I'm ready to do it.

As far as Norse fantasy goes, yeah I've tried to be very different from normal fantasy. For one thing I didn't do medieval, modern, shoulderplates, or prophecy, but rather a fantasy world inspired by Norse and Saxon society and prehistory in some ways. I've uploaded one full novel and am working on a second, although I have not full-published anything yet. I'm very new to writing, been planning it for a long time but only started really writing about 13 months ago.