Host a Movie Night
Invite your friends over to watch some of the great movies that center around heroines in fantasy literature. Make your home look as spooky as possible and serve some appetizers inspired by your heroines. Everyone could dress as their favorite heroine too! Click to watch the trailers and decide which movie you want to choose!
Host Your Own Academy Awards
Host multiple movie nights or host one and then have your friends host movie nights for other movies from the list. After seeing most or all of them, take a vote and present the winning heroine with her own Academy Award. If you each dress in the costume of a different heroine, you can actually present her with the award.
Games and Puzzles
Complete these puzzles and play these games on your own or with some friends.
Play or Build Your Own Star Wars Game
Hangman
Crossword Puzzle Word Find
Play or Build Your Own Star Wars Game
Hangman
Crossword Puzzle Word Find
Have a Video Game Tournament
Many of these heroines have their own or appear in video games (Princess Leia, Hermione Granger, Lara Croft, Buffy Summers. Have a round robin or bracket style tournament competing as teams or individuals. Prizes can be heroine-inspired!
Visit a Blog
Find a blog like the one on this website and chat with other fans of fantasy lit who also love a strong female character. Find out what is going on in the world of fantasy lit. Hear about books, games, events, and more!
Start Your Own Blog
Use Blogger, Word Press, or another website you like to start a blog all your own. Invite your friends and see how other fantasy lit readers and others who love these heroines will flock to your blog. You can link polls, reviews, post videos, write your own reviews, and post questions.
Write Fan Fiction
Do you love these characters? Do you wish there was more written about them? Do you often think of other plot lines that would be awesome to add to their stories? Well, then write them. You can write stories about these characters that are either extensions of the stories that are already written or are new story lines with the same characters. You can add characters too! You know these characters so well already, so you might know what they might do next. Check out some of the sites listed below for ideas and inspiration.
Fuel Your Writing
Harry Potter Fan Fiction: The Story Continues
The Girl on Fire.com: Hunger Games Fan Fiction
Mundie Source: The Official Cassandra Clare Fansite
How to Write Fan Fiction: 8 Steps (wikihow)
Fuel Your Writing
Harry Potter Fan Fiction: The Story Continues
The Girl on Fire.com: Hunger Games Fan Fiction
Mundie Source: The Official Cassandra Clare Fansite
How to Write Fan Fiction: 8 Steps (wikihow)
Author Your Own Work
Since you love fantasy literature so much, believe in yourself and write your own. Here are some ideas:
Create your own heroine and make her the center of a story
Think about the perfect mate for your favorite heroine and write a story about him/her
Create a new superpower, give it to someone and write a new story
Create your own fantastical world, populate it with new characters and write a story
Tell the other side of the story. Think about a new villian and write from his/her point of view
Create your own heroine and make her the center of a story
Think about the perfect mate for your favorite heroine and write a story about him/her
Create a new superpower, give it to someone and write a new story
Create your own fantastical world, populate it with new characters and write a story
Tell the other side of the story. Think about a new villian and write from his/her point of view
Create a Cartoon
Take your favorite book/movie and turn it into an animated classic OR animate your own story. You can use websites like GoAnimate (It's Free!) to make your own creation.
Become an Illustrator
Some of your heroines have graced the movie screen or appeared in video games, but many characters exist only in the minds of their readers. Create illustrations of these characters using what you have read as your inspiration.
Take or Build a Poll
Take the poll below or build one yourself.
Want More? Try some of these further readings.
The Arrows Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey
"The Shadow of the Vulture" by Robert E. Howard
The Swords and Sorceress Series by Marion Zimmer Bradly
Tara of the Twilight by Lin Carter
The Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer