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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Moving Out Of First POV.I think so, too. You can really make it work for animals and communicate that "in the now" state of their minds. -
A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Moving Out Of First POV.What I would do, and I actually use this for our dream sequences, is I would change up tenses as well. Third Person Limited, Present...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Funny swords.We have what we call "named objects." The first few we introduce are indeed swords - for example, this below is Keeper, which cannot...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread How Planned is Your Plan?.I can't pants my way out of a paper bag, and my two partners are supportive. Our last outline came in at about 100 pages. Book's 660...
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Every writer is different, some plan everything and write 20k word outlines, others sit down with nothing more than an interesting...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread How much of modern day technology is throws you off in fantasy.It's really going to depend on your flavor of fantasy. For example, our series, the Books of Binding, is Urban Fantasy with a strong...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Is my magic system too boring?.If your magic system is boring you, then yes, it is boring. And boring is a fairly easy fix. Ask yourself and the magic system and the...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Is a ancient fantasy world better than an modern one?.Personally - and bear in mind I am a thoroughly mediocre writer and as such all advice is highly subjective - I think that there is no...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Devor's post in the thread Is a ancient fantasy world better than an modern one? with
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I don't want to get into a big back and forth, but I do want to respond to this one point. Romeo and Juliet was written in 1597... -
A. E. Lowan reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread How do you treat gods in your setting? with Love.
Maybe you need to take a step back and think about what sort of story you want to write. Where is your focus? I ask that because in my...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Do you have any characters that are 'goblin coded' ?.Svrt's dad sent me a friend invite a while back, and I always wish I could be cool enough to understand Swedish like he can English. I...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread How do you treat gods in your setting?.Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes. I totally understand that these days most young writers are limited - weird word for this - to the...
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My setting has twelve magic systems, even though the story only focuses on the one fairy magic type, but it's important to me that they...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Do you have any characters that are 'goblin coded' ? with Love.
In Swedish we would say "träsktroll", meaning someone who doesn't really give a stuff about the image they project (particularly...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread How do you treat gods in your setting?.Yeah, that really does sound Roman, but not like an homage or an analogue. The Romans were world champions of hedging their bets, so...
