How well I know this feeling.
However, there is one thing I have learnt in its regard; you can spend days or weeks or months planning, rearranging, but in the end, you have done very little actual writing. Characters, whilst planned and pondered, have not had a good chance to come alive. You...
A number of methods spring to mind:
1) The apprentice could state that he now commands in the Master Wizard's stead, and that the Master Wizard has made some discovery about their enemy that demands his attention? If they followed the Master, why should they not then follow his pupil? He...
I personally do not see it as important, unless it is somehow related to the plot.
I generally do not describe something unless there is a reason to do so. Style / colour of clothing, hair length / colour are about all I describe to get a visual idea of the character. Eye colour is too...
The weapons they employ would depend upon what their purpose is.
If they want to wipe out a region or any army, they might simply employ a contagion, or engineer a 'natural' disaster, rather than fight with weapons.
If they are causing trouble by appearing openly on the planet in person, then...
Greetings.
I have been writing fragments on and off for fifteen years; many ideas, many scenes, many characters...too little time.
I once got as far as getting an appraisal. Since then, I have been pondering too many ideas to ever finish in this lifetime. Stories rise and fall, amalgamate...