Recent content by August Griffin

This visitor message was not where I intended to land. hmmm.

I grabbed the nearest book, Barker, "Imajica," and you are correct. Single line breaks for pov change and scene change. This is unfortunate. Should we suspect it grew from a cost saving measure? It also had CH 6 pt 1 &2 but they featured the same pov, so I failed to grasp the relevance...

Maybe I'm not getting the gist of this thread, but my confusion might be helpful to some anyway. This is my take. two lines ***** (five asterisks) This indicates a pov switch, a head swap. In third person, you should stay in that head until you see the lines again, regardless of chaptering...

Never let the reader relax. So no, the party posts a guard and takes a refreshing nap, chapter breaks. Your basic building block is the scene. Label them until it is no longer useful. Eventually you combine the scenes into chapters so the headings become irrelevant. When you...

Enjoyment is where it's at. If a story doesn't have the potential for spiders to rain down from the sky, I just can't do it anymore! Doesn't mean there has to be spiders in the sky, they could have a spider-parade with a brass band and pageantry, but the potential must be there. Fantasy is...

I try to view this in proportions, based on how important the character is to the story, sixty, thirty, ten. Fifty percent of a book in the main point of view doesn't seem enough to impart the experience to the reader. So I say, sixty percent or more should be in the main character point of...

It's nice to belong to a forum that is Fantasy specific. I'm trying out Forum Runner, please forgive me if I've landed on the wrong branch. I have completed a fairy tale novel and received positive feedback, but readers don't get the big picture. I'm hoping to sharpen my talons with an absurd...