Fantasy Writing Discussions February 27, 2012

  • Consideration for listeners?
    I’m a bit of a minimalist when it comes to dialogue tags and thus some of my speakers are often only differentiated by changing paragraphs and other…
  • Homeland, Exile & Sojourn
    After having finished Elantris, I realized I actually want some real “traditional” fantasy. I have never actual read this well known work.What do…

  • Elven Cultures
    In my world, there are multiple cultures within the Elven race. They are the major race of the world (at least in the beginning.) I was wondering if…
  • Need a Bad*ss sword.
    My main character was raised by a smith, got his sword stolen, joined an army, and made himself a new one. But i want this new sword to be epic. ive…
  • Already stuck.
    I’ve just started my story’s new reboot, but I’ve already hit a block.In my story god-like beings called Arcana choose mortals to make…

  • Capitalizing words for emphasis.
    So, this was brought up in another one of my threads, but is it alright to capitalize words for emphasis, and if so, where do you draw the line?
  • Writing too demanding for simple storytelling?
    Recently, I’ve been reading some manga and Realized how much easier they have it with storytelling. Unlike a novel, there is far less demand for…
  • Actually imagining places
    The other day I realized I’m awful at actually imagining the places when writing (or reading about). No matter how many words I use, it seems to be…
  • Starting a second story, a good idea? Or a response to cold-writers feet?
    So the reason that i started writing in the first place is that im staring down the barrel of a military deployment that looks like its going to…
  • Mild Romance
    So…I’ve got the fantasy world looking good, the plot sorted and the action scenes down to a standard that I’m happy with, but now on the eve of…

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