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  1. Anders Ämting

    Is it a boy or a girl?

    That's all well and good, but what about the narration? The stories are in third person, so I still have to pick a gender to refer to.
  2. Anders Ämting

    Is it a boy or a girl?

    That seems like it might get confusing in the long run, though. In my stories it's much more permanent, though not irreversable. Also, neither villain has any plans on abandoning the female body in the forseeable future. I dunno, that makes it sound too much like they're dealing with some...
  3. Anders Ämting

    Is it a boy or a girl?

    So here's the scenario: The villain of the story is male, as far as gender identity goes, but doesn't have a physical body of his own. Instead he is possessing the body of a female character for pretty much his entire part of the story, directly using her body as if it was his own. So, the...
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    Word Association Game

    Burgeoning. Bourgeois.
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    Kill this Thread

    When they finally come to destroy the Earth they'll have to go through you first. I bet they won't be expecting that.
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    Ask me about swords.

    What exactly is your budget? Tricky question, and I'm not sure I can give a good answer. It's not a region and time period I'm familiar with. If it's actually a Roman sword, I understand it would probably look much the same as other swords within the empire. If it was actually made in the...
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    Word Association Game

    Puppy. Poppies.
  8. Anders Ämting

    Valkyries?

    Honestly, just from the sound of it I think you've strayed so far from actual Norse mythology with this that you can probably make up whatever you want. Dead elves getting picked up by valkyries? Sure, why not? It's not like anyone is going to single out that part as unauthentic.
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    Redshirts?

    I wouldn't call this a Redshirt. A Redshirt is an unimportant, usually generic protagonist that you kill off specifically so you can have good guys die, without actually killing off a main character. When it's a villain, the proper term is "mook." As for your actual question, it doesn't...
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    Valkyries?

    The valkyries basically worked directly for Odin, selecting and collecting the einherjar from the battlefields. It was partly a reward for valor in combat and partly being recruited for Odin's personal army. Norse mythology doesn't have much to say on the elves and blackelves and telling where...
  11. Anders Ämting

    Novel vs Screenplay?

    I'm not an expert in this matter but my understanding is that most who write screenplays do so on commission, that is you are hired to work on a specific project and don't really get to decide what to write, often along with other writers, or to pick up something a predecessor has been working...
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    Movies, a bad influence?

    Do you read a lot of movie scripts? Because I don't think this is a matter of being too influenced by movies you've watched. You have have taken to visualizing the fights as movie scenes but that's not in itself a bad thing - I do that as well. The problem is rather that you're not very skilled...
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    Dream Sequences / Memories

    My current project starts with the MC having a short dream, though it's mostly just forshadowing for the plot twist at the end of the chapter, which in turn establishes one of the major themes of the novel. Later on she ends up in a spirit world that is kinda dream-like, but not actually a...
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    What Does a Blacksmith Do?

    It was in fact not unusual for sword blades to be made in certain cities that specialized in the trade, like Solingen or Toledo, and then exported to other countries where they were hilted locally. Though, even if everything was done in the same place, each stage of the production would be...
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