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For my fantasy novel The Wrong Side, I have a scene on a fishing boat. Does anyone know what sort of boats in the medieval period would be suitable for ...

The climatic reason is good. Fantasy often resorts to magic as an excuse for anything. "A spell was cast over the land that prevented the plants from growing" or "they ...

For a minute there I thought you were serious about the first outline, and thought, "who are you and what have you done with Merlin." Lucky it was just a ...

Self Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King is good. And I get Randy Ingermanson's e-zine as well. It's good and its free, so there's nothing to ...

The best way to do major edits of plot and character is to have used a plan in the first place so you could spot the problems before you spent ...

I've tried and failed seat of the pants writing. Planning is the way to go for me. My planning style has changed over time. Once it was just a scene ...

Classy, I'm loving this story more and more. Your characters are really blossoming. Only one major prose issue stood out to me. When Joe says "We need to go find ...

This was by far the best part yet. It was good to see some internal monologue. It goes a long way for character development. The prose was also very easy ...

Well I didn't actually do this. I was going to but I forgot. What I planned to do after seeing a tube of facial exfoliant in the shower was to ...

Wow, thanks guys. All advice is appreciated. Your critiques are epic Karsten. When Nate gets this new badge system up I'm nominating you for every reviewing award there is, and ...

Hi WD, I've seen some of your reviews in the fantasy section and I want one. My story's called The Wrong Side. I've had a couple of reviews that were ...

Hi Classy. Thought I'd drop by since you took the time to do me a review yesterday. I found the descriptions of what the surroundings looked like good, and they ...

Thanks Classy. Glad you liked it. Luke is on his first mission out of training. Alfred's been in the army for years. That's why he's more confident while Luke's scared ...

The descriptions in this were wonderful. It's great that you use all the senses, instead of just sight which is often overused. I don't exactly know what the plot is. ...

Hello Karsten, reviewer extraordinaire. I'm editing my Nano and thought I'd post up the first chapter for scary judgement. The Wrong Side Ch. 1 Cheers :D