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    Dystopian recommeded reads? And what has become cliche in it?

    Try Steelheart. Not 100 percent dystopian, but pretty close.
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    The Only 10 Must Follow Rules Every Writer Needs

    I'll change my MC and give him 10 cats and a bucket filled with elf blood as weapons. 1,2,3,4 and 9 = solved
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    Automaton army

    Well if you take to good consideration the physical makeup of the automatons I think you're good. If I'm right, automatons have one specific purpose. Like in the film Hugo, the automaton draws one picture only. If your automaton is built to wield a sword, don't make automatic machine guns grow...
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    Starting a scene with nightmares

    I did have that dream once. In my dream, I was hugging my dead cousin and my mother was pulling me away by the arm. I woke up to find myself in the conscious world where my brother was sleepwalking, pulling my arm. I see no problem with your falling guard. Well as long as your dream ain't the...
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    Groups in your world

    I have The Order of the Black World, magic practitioners that have consumed the flesh of a Fallen to be Nephilims. Members are called Disciples. They desire to facilitate the return of the Fallen named Legion by killing at least one Sorceress of the Rift, to puncture a hole in the veil of the...
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    Aging Taxidermy

    The main frame should stay. I mean thats what taxidermy is for right? Mold will depend on the humidity, and bald spots on the fur will depend on human intervention, which in the case of your story, seems not a factor.
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    Airforce or Navy?

    It depends upon your nation's government. Various navies have fighter planes, bombers, helicopters with various missions and even UAVs. Just don't mix up the term for air 'forces' under a navy. A couple of planes and its an AIR WING. A dozen and its an AIR GROUP or whatever fancier names you can...
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    They don't have powers just because...

    1) It is physically tiring, and, cliched as it may sound, too much of it corrupts the user morally, mentally and even physically. 2) Not insanely difficult and not that easy as well, but of course, spells and battlefield tactics follow a hierarchy. A fireball is First Grade Math. A wall of...
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    They don't have powers just because...

    Don't you think it will be okay if I simply would not give a concrete answer and instead bury several theories within the story? First, of course, the government and the society of the technologically-advanced nation strongly discourages their people to seek the Stone Tables of Abraham and the...
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    They don't have powers just because...

    Why will a lot of people be without magic/ rejected by both sides? That's my problem. They don't have magic just because dot dot dot. Well, the only explanation I got so far was their nation, but that's really lame. For example, the Fire Erelims grant magic to the people of Firebrand because...
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    They don't have powers just because...

    So in my WIP, after four months or so of tinkering, I finally have a magic system working, but of course it needs more ironing and more pair of eyes to look at it for holes I might have missed. A brief history. The Erelims and Fallens were ancient beings locked in eternal conflict against...
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    Elmore Leonard's 10 "Rules" of Writing

    This book is good. I mean disregard the points for a bit, but the physical book is nice, fonts are regal-looking and big and riddled with awesome drawings. I have it, one of my coolest possessions :D
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    Everyone, meet the styxslither

    I guess so. The Styx River, as with many places in the Empire of Vlad, have been known to mutilate creatures through pure exposure with the vile magic that fogs the place.
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    Everyone, meet the styxslither

    Waist down, an olive green boa constrictor with the tail ending in a harpoon-shaped bone. Neck down, a lighter green female human in a black straitjacket. The bald head was a fitting cap for the most otherworldly abomination I have ever seen. Four gold slit eyes locked on me unblinkingly. Four...
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    How could a time traveller prove that she's travelled back from the future?

    Doubting Thomas: How do I know you're-- Time Traveller: I have seen in my time travels that you will doubt me, and in about five seconds you will fart but before that let me show you this machine blablabla faaaaaaaaart
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