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Advice for writing themes into the story without hitting the reader over the head with them
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Just about every movie Robin Williams was ever in... inspiring individual destroyed by the conservative system. They were usually good...
Yesterday at 7:07 PM
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While on the surface a swashbuckling, white knuckle ride, my most recent novel (sci-fi) is also a satire on the ravages of psychopathic...
Yesterday at 2:50 AM
The Dark One
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You also have to be brave and unflinching depending on what your theme / subtext is. My first novel had a number of subtexts but one...
Yesterday at 1:41 AM
The Dark One
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You're talking about subtext and this is just about the most complex topic in literature. Off the top of my head... If you care about...
Yesterday at 12:10 AM
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A new snippet I enjoyed writing... This piece comes from the upcoming War of Seven Lies and the chapters involving The Touched will...
Monday at 1:08 AM
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This is one definition the internet throws up. I pretty much agree with it. Tolkien’s work breaks all the rules here. You have a scholar...
Sunday at 7:05 AM
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Is it possible to write a literary fantasy book?
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I agree with this (and also with Incanus and Jac...jam) but boy I hated The Buried Giant. (See my GR review Adrian Deans's review of The...
Saturday at 7:55 PM
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I’ll give you some examples of ‘literary fantasy’ that I’ve read, and I’ll tell you why I think they could easily fit into this...
Saturday at 7:39 PM
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So I've been rolling this around in my head for a while: To be carefully even-handed, I think one of the big differences is that...
Saturday at 7:39 PM
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I've always thought good fantasy could cross with any other genre - some like romance and detective are easier to 'see'. I think...
Saturday at 7:33 PM
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Writing about sex, intimacy and relationships
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I've already linked my Excellent Bonking scenes article a thousand times so I won't bother again, unless by popular acclaim... Already...
Apr 30, 2024
The Dark One
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What was hard to write?
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I've always been complimented on how well I write women but I've never written a female 1st person POV. The opportunity has just come...
Apr 12, 2024
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Unredeemable Tropes
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Not to mention the fact that humour is a spectrum and everyone's sense of it will be different. Writing humour comes easily to me but...
Apr 11, 2024
The Dark One
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Unredeemable Tropes
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Disagree strongly. Setting up a twist can take any form you choose and if that hapens to be in a joke, so be it.
Apr 10, 2024
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Poor reader...If I write so you feel smarter, were you really smarter...
Apr 10, 2024
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