Fantasy Writing Discussions July 4, 2011

  • Your Writing Station
    Where is it that you do your writing? What machine do you primarily use? Desktop? Laptop? Typewriter (Those still exist, right?) I ask because I…
  • Do you dream about what you’re writing?
    Does your writing ever get into your dreams? If so, in what way? And did such dreams help you to develop or improve your story?
  • Dark Tower Series
    What do you think about Stephen King’s Dark Tower?
  • World-Building Resources
    I haven’t done this in quite some time, but I just finished up my first manga which is pretty cool. I’m not doing the art, but I’m doing the…
  • Jump the Shark!!
    Hey. So for the first time I’ve set a book up for a sequel. Probably a trilogy. The thing is, I didn’t story board out three books. Just the one…
  • Marketing
    Ok…aside from what our publishers can do for us, what can new authors do for self marketing? (this also of course would apply to the self-published…
  • Brick by brick
    I’ve come across a strange tool that I’ve been using to work around writer’s block. LEGOs. I don’t know if its because I work with kids or what; I…
  • How to Handle Accents
    How do you handle characters with accents? Personally, I’ve never cared much for the technique of misspelling words in dialogue so as to convey…
  • Monsters, and other things that inhabit your worlds
    I was wondering what creatures/monsters are in your worlds. In my world currently I have wraiths, vampires, werewolves, sand monsters, a vicious…
  • Ideas for a World.
    Hey there, I’m pretty new here (first thread) and am attempting to write a peice of fantasy fiction over the summer. I have a general plan for…
  • In need of an outside perspective
    I hope I’m right here in the world-building forum with something I’d like a quick outside opinion of. What would you disapprove of more? A country…
  • Adding in some action to the first chapter…
    ARGH! Hair pulling time again. I’ve got some written on the first chapter. So far it acquaints the reader with the type of town, superstitions of the…
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