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    "I am <Name>" *slice of backstory* to introduce first-person narrator?

    Well how does this sound? My eardrums sang with the song of my feet beating against the forest floor, and the distant drums of the enemy thumping in syncopation. My sense of time had left me as I had been fleeing for over two days from this enemy that flooded into the east of Amara like a...
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    "I am <Name>" *slice of backstory* to introduce first-person narrator?

    I think I'll stick with introduction via dialogue. It's a journey of self-discovery, so there's definitely going to be reflecting on the past going on.
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    "I am <Name>" *slice of backstory* to introduce first-person narrator?

    Hello, I'm currently making a writing piece and have come up with two ways to introduce the POV character. Via a Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind inspired "I am..." (first book that came to mind). The second idea is having him reflect on a conversation he had with an older and wiser mentor...
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    Question on plot structure, in regards to closed and open settings.

    Hello, I'm currently writing a Reflection Statement for my Extension 2 English Major Work and am discussing how I initially developed my story into a closed-setting but felt this would remove much of the adventure aspect, therefore I developed it into a plot structure that moves from...
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    Allow me to Introduce myself..

    Thank you all very much for your warm welcomes and helpful contributions!
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    Looking for feedback on this idea for a scruffy old Halfling rogue-like character.

    Your positive feedback means a lot :) I think instead what I'll do is not necessarily create a particular race for this character, instead he'll be just recognised as a very small person. Making his lack of height more of a grotesque deformity of the physical normalities of a human male. Such as...
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    Is cliche bad?

    Thanks TERrvin, From what you've said, would you classify a means of moving away from cliche is by the use of foreign languages and the remaking of character types into something not totally the same? Coming up with beast types and naming them things like Hogskree, Grogsneerz, Wulgs and...
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    Is cliche bad?

    Indeed. So what your saying is, I could add Elves and Halflings and Orcs to my story, and the battle between light and dark but it's how I present the characters, develop them, progress the story and just generally make it interesting that determines whether people will paint cliche all over the...
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    Is cliche bad?

    Hey guys, This is something that when I hear it, I don't know whether to cringe, or whether to thank the person. Being told a story I wrote reminds them of a ton of other fantasy novels they've read or just point blank, 'that plots a bit cliche'. Would you classify that as a bad thing? Because...
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    Looking for feedback on this idea for a scruffy old Halfling rogue-like character.

    Thank you for the feedback! Would it be spammy of me to put this in the Showcase now? Also, when you say, keep to rough drafts. Are you implying people stealing ideas?
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    Looking for feedback on this idea for a scruffy old Halfling rogue-like character.

    Hey guys, (2nd post!) So I was recently inspired to start writing down ideas for a Halfling character in my short story. The way Halflings place themselves in this world is similar to The Lord of The Rings. Except they don't necessarily reside in one particular section of the world Instead, they...
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    Allow me to Introduce myself..

    I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the- Only kidding... (10 points to whoever can tell me which book that's from) Hello! I'm a young...
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