Welcome to the Fantasy Forum

Welcome to the realm of fantasy!

This genre is vast. What sets it apart from all others is the inclusion of the impossible. Magic and mythical creatures abound. The only limitations are the ones you choose. Want to ride on a gryphon? Battle the legions of the undead? Discover the high school custodian is some kind of legendary creature? This is the place for you.

Because fantasy is so vast and varied, we will include links to threads on some of the possible sub-genres, so you can find writers of similar themes or milieus, as well as the most popular threads.

You know you write fantasy when
Fantasy Dares
Is my story Fantasy?
Worldbuilding Resources and Links
Map Making

Sub-genres
Steampunk
Sword and Sorcery
Paranormal Romance
Contemporary Fantasy
Historical Fantasy
Epic Fantasy
Science Fantasy
Low Fantasy
Fairy Tales
Dark Fantasy

Now that November is over, you may want to share your work. If so, head over to the Critiques, Feedback, and Novel Swap forum.
[Fantasy] Requests for Readers
Or if you want to post a short excerpt, follow the guidelines posted here.

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Concerning Excerpts:

Novel excerpts should not be posted in the forums. Use your profiles. You can edit them there, but not in the forums (as you may have noticed).

Novel excerpts may be removed by the moderators.

In December, a forum will open for critiques, feedback, and novel swaps.

You can exchange e-mails with writing buddies, but it's not recommended to post e-mail addresses on a public forum. Use NaNoMail to exchange information.

Thank you and happy writing.

What about urban fantasy?

As an addendum, here is the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry on Urban Fantasy:

"Urban fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy defined by place; the fantastic narrative has an urban setting. Many urban fantasies are set in contemporary times and contain supernatural elements, making them a sub-genre of Contemporary fantasy. However, the stories can take place in historical, modern, or futuristic periods. The prerequisite is that they must be primarily set in a city."

Fantasy with dreams and golden oceans ...

I am writing anthropomorphic (talking animals) fantasy. Great fun.

Fairy tales has been added to the list of sub-genres, due to the popularity of the topic.

Um... Mine has a dragon? *laughs weakly* she's a species that feature in some of my more super fantasy novels

Since many threads have been relocated over the past several days, here's a few words of advice concerning what to post in the Fantasy forum.

-Topics within the fantasy genre (world building, magic, death/romance/whatever in fantasy)
-Threads to connect with authors with similar interests (the sub-genre forums, in particular)
-Help with your fantasy plot or fantasy characters

Threads that do not fall into one of those categories may be moved.
If you feel that a thread should not have been moved, send a message to Dragonchilde.

Dark Fantasy has been added to the list of genres.

New links posted to the Critiques, Feedback, and Novel Swap forum.

i thought that was all one genre not split into many parts how do you now which part of fantasy you fit into? :/