[NyteSky]

Well, like The Fifth said, it's a matter of personal style and preference mostly. Having a background usually helps, like history for the characters and the countries. Gotta work out the rules of magic if you're going to have anything remotely magical in the book! You and the readers need to know the limits, that way you don't have to deal with dozens of all powerful wizards throwing cities and mountains at each other etc. What else does it need? Um... a bad guy of course. Those are hard, I still don't have one figured out for my book. Companions. They're so common they're practically necessary. I guess it's possible to have on wi out them, but it'd be hard to do. Then the goal is usually some quest, get the magic thingy, destroy a magic thingy, kill the all powerful evil guy, defeat the enemies unending legions, that type of thing. That's all i can think of offhand, and I should really go because my computer is crashing all around me. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Think I could read it? Once you've written some that is. I'm not an expert on this or anything but it's something I like a lot, so feel free to email me: davidone_2000@msn.com. Goodluck!