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Re: Fact Check
I'm sure I could find this through research, but I am a lousy researcher, so I thought I'd ask you guys before I potentially spend wasted hours finding nothing. Once ...
Mar 5, 2007 -
Re: Mysterious Characters who DON'T wear cloaks
Yeah, I'm having trouble with a somewhat mysterious character. And no, he doesn't wear a cloak, or at least not when he doesn't have to. The problem is, he's my ...
Feb 25, 2007 -
Re: How do you hook someone in?
A note about your title; isn't Atticka also the name of a prison somewhere in the US? I remember there's this famous line in a movie where during a police ...
Feb 11, 2007 -
Re: Third Person or First?
A lot of that is Kind of personal preference. Generaly, if you have multiple POV's, you should always use Third Person. Not that you have too , but it can ...
Feb 9, 2007 -
Re: Winning the Battle
I applaud you. I found this to be a very helpful article. While it focuses more on large scale battles, much of the advice can still be applied to smaller ...
Feb 5, 2007 -
Re: How to stop writers block.
*raises hand*. Yeah, that's me right there. Ideas and concepts seem to come so easy to me. Characters are also pretty easy. Creating and maintaining interesting plots is hard. One ...
Jan 12, 2007 -
Re: Fantasy Novelists Exam
Personaly, I found many of the questions quite funny, especially #56, 63, 73, and all the ones that are cracks on video games. As to #4, I'm not sure if ...
Jan 7, 2007 -
Re: Plausibility in Fiction #1
Nice article. Things like that are very easy to overlook. If your reason for things being the way the are is "because I say so", the reader will dismiss you. ...
Dec 3, 2006 -
Re: Killing Off a Character
Deaths should never be pointless or random. Deaths have to seem real. Sure, people can die by the strangest means, but it's still real. Deaths that occur suddenly, basically excluding ...
Dec 3, 2006 -
Re: How Do You Critique?
My critiques are normally done straight through the peice. Every time I come across something that catches my attention, such as grammer, I make a not of it in the ...
Nov 29, 2006 -
Re: Ah... the frustration...
Combination of what Snoink and aeroman said. I often do a lot of random daydreaming, and I get a lot of cool stuff out of it. 95% of those thoughts ...
Nov 27, 2006 -
Re: The Worst Thing Ever In The Eternity Of The Writing World!
RoxanneR, when it come to beginnings, I feel your pain. Actually, you desrcibed one of my own works pretty well in that second sentance. Once I get the ball rolling, ...
Nov 22, 2006 -
Re: Unruly Antagonists
Hey, enemy becomming ally isn't necessarily a bad thing. That's what's helped many stories before. However, if your lead villian is your only real villian and he switches sides, then ...
Nov 22, 2006 -
Re: Logic holes? Please help with my plot.
Well, it seems like you've got this pretty well thought out. So, I don't see any logic gaps as of yet, and with the logical thought being put into this ...
Oct 21, 2006 -
Re: Logic holes? Please help with my plot.
Well, this is a rough plot outlining you have here. Currently, I don't really see any "gaping holes" you're worried about, at least where the meat of the story is. ...
Oct 20, 2006
