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Just to break into this one: personal experience tells me that people don't want to kill each other. I don't have the urge to kill; even the people I despise ...

Myles, you realise this is the system of magic used in The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett? How about all the things people do with magic that they couldn't ...

How could you see that, and take it allegorically?

My characters evolve to suit the needs of the plot, and the gaps that need filling. Of course there are exceptions to this, but generally if my character likes to ...

Viedna It did not take Viedna long to figure out long to work out what was going on. It did, however, take him a long moment to wonder why the ...

oneday he was sure to be the captain of the royal servants "one day" as two words. Also, a servant wouldn't have a military rank. He'd be a butler or ...

Jon took a long draught from the waterskin the guard had passed to him before tossing it further down the line. Twisting his neck and flexing his shoulders, he spat ...

Where did he get his power from? What do others think of him and why? (as a magician not as a character) Magic from nature, magic from song, magic from ...

What if hoards of men Hoarding is for treasure, Horde is for men. What if one of these nights in port they decided to steal the Dark Goddess? Um yeah, ...

Will had never seen such eyes! Big, almond-shaped, blue-green eyes framed by ridiculously long black eyelashes. Her eyes were by far Jo’s best feature It's good that you're going into ...

As Pegg divided up the money derived from the auction *derived* is grammatically correct, but doesn't flow well in the sentence, doesn't fit well with your diction. You could replace ...

the rice had gotten maggots in it may read better as "had been infested with maggots" but this is purely because I hate the word "got" Your ability as a ...

pegg shouldn't use the word "adage", it doesn't fit with the image of the flea infested scottsman (which is good) Does Jo start questioning her father's sanity a little too ...

Haha I dream of being a writer, but the problem is I know it's a dream. I was a very recalcitrant reader as a child aswell..I was one of those ...

Darn. There goes my plan of hooking beautiful supermodels with my literary talent.