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Re: Story Starting Problems
How about starting with Brianna's kidnapping?
Jul 26, 2016 -
Re: awesome creatures and magic
Have you tried looking at some medieval bestiaries? There's a lot of really weird and fantastic creatures catalogued in them. Here's one online:
Jul 26, 2016 -
Re: Old-timey Mapmaking?
Also, if you're lucky, your local library may have books on how to survey land specifically for mapmaking. If you're super lucky, they'll be ones written during the late 1800s ...
Jul 26, 2016 -
Re: Help me not screw up my Vampire/Human Romance
It will ultimately come down to the execution in the end (because sometimes things slip in unintentionally that work against your intentions in writing the story; see Twilight for an ...
Jul 18, 2016 -
Re: Help me not screw up my Vampire/Human Romance
Well, there's tropes and cliches about vampires, and then there's tropes and cliches about romance. Tropes and cliches aren't inherently bad in-and-of-themselves, but how you handle them really impact
Jul 18, 2016 -
Re: Casting for Book Characters
Just to reiterate though, you can have a thread in this forum devoted to the fun extras, like cast lists, for your project. Project threads can be used for a ...
Jul 16, 2016 -
Re: Help me with my query?
The main issue I see with the second draft is that, despite the story being told from two perspectives, the pitch is all about Molly. I think it would better ...
Jul 16, 2016 -
Re: Coming up with a title for a fantasy novel.
Unless, like Tenyo mentioned, this is just one book in a series, the two-part title is a bit much. Even as part of a series, the titles feel a bit ...
Jul 4, 2016 -
Re: Sticking with a Project
You can also jump around within a project, especially if you're looking at a series. The main trade-off here is that finishing anything takes a long time, but I've found ...
Jul 4, 2016 -
Re: Need Beta Readers
Before I commit to anything, I do have a few questions. What's the length wordcount-wise? Page length can vary a lot based on formatting, so wordcount is a bit more ...
Jun 20, 2016 -
Re: Advice Needed!
I'm a biiiiiit late in replying (I hope you don't mind), but I will say that it's really difficult to answer your first question concretely. It really depends on the ...
Jun 17, 2016 -
Re: Need Beta Readers
Are you still looking for betas for this?
Jun 17, 2016 -
Re: Need some writers love on tumblr!!
I'm just going to drop a clickable link here so that people can more easily check your tumblr out. In the future, you can use the URL tags to make ...
Jun 17, 2016 -
Re: The Food Chain Method- Finding the essentials
I think it's a pretty neat approach, though I do have some questions on the intricacies. How do you deal with things that have only one or two important connections ...
Jun 17, 2016 -
Re: Reading Awful Books Improves Writing
I disagree, mainly because knowing that something is bad is different from knowing why and how it is bad. To use a food analogy, anyone can taste a dish and ...
Jun 17, 2016
