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    Advice on writing the diaries of an explorer

    It strikes me that as an explorer, he wouldn't be alone. This puts up more opportunity for tension, conflict and exploding barrels. :D
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    Missed Opportunities for Self-Publishers?

    There have been some interest in creating new, vibrant fantasy settings and tropes - Ahmed and Mievile instantly spring to mind - but most fantasy nowadays is either urban or epic. And the Epic had a tenancy to be medieval European, al la Lotr or GoT. I like Abecrombie - but I know he's not...
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    Critiquing a young writer's first chapter

    I've done this before, and no matter how much I try to sugar-coat it, I've come to realisation that if they can't take the heat ... Be brutally honest. Those with a thin skin would never have made it anyway. Those ready to listen, try something else - even those able to take advice and then...
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    Top 100 Fantasy Authors (How Many Have You Read?)

    I got 77, but some of them I read a VERY LONG TIME AGO ... Glad to see Lloyd Alexander in there!
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    *nods to Feo* A trick for making progress.

    Think I may well use this ... Cheers!
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    Door number three: writing what you want, disguised as what your readers want

    Interesting. I think it comes down to our own motivations for writing - the old 'love-or'money' dichotomy that parasites all art. The pragmatic answer is to do a bit of both, sticking to your guns as to what makes a compelling story, versus following 'what's popular' for a quick buck. Either...
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    Talk about your avatar!

    What is your avatar? Agent Smith looking mean ... Why did you choose it? Cause I had an Agent Smith on another forum, that was a GIF. He was snarling and rain was dripping down his face. Tried it here and it didn't work. Liked the idea anyway, so I stuck with it. Does it inspire you in any...
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    Is there a name for this?

    The top ones resemble enneagrams - but could be star-charts or 'magic circle' thingees. The bottom ones look like sigils. Not sure which alphabet, but look up Angelic Script on Google Images and you'll get the idea. Yes, they are very evocative, pleasing to look at,and I don't now why...
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    Weekly Chapter-by-Chapter Fantasy Writing Group

    That sounds positively awesome.
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    Online creative writing course, worth it?

    The answer is dependent on your expectations - you won't be a bone fide writer once it's done and you may pick up your tutor's blind spots and habits. BUT, if there is concise and useful feedback to your written work - and they point you in the direction of great works, and get you thinking in...
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    Faerie weapons? - not made of iron!

    Hmm, depends on the kind of faerie you are dealing with ... and the assumption that they would mine the stuff they make their weapons out of. :bee::bee::bee: The historic variants are all applicable - bronze, wood and horn, bone and stone, but why stop there? Magical glass? Solidified...
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    Why do you write fantasy?

    I write fantasy because I can do things in this genre that cannot be done elsewhere. Few rules bind fantasy. While the other genres have prerequisites to be named so, all fantasy has to do is create a sense of wonder, beyond the actually possible, beyond even the sword&sorcery/ hack&slash...
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    Mother's smallest children (homemade creation myth)

    In the Golden Age, when the Gods were young, Giants roamed the land. In their insatiable hunger, the Giants consumed and assimilated most life that Mother birthed. Most, because Root, Twig and Leaf, the most unimpressive of Mother’s children, were left alone. The Giants did not notice them...
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    Importance of an Literature degree

    I've done a Degree in English and Creative Writing - and to be perfectly honest, my writing was fresher (sic) before it. Literary Theory takes a thing of beauty - some book or poem - and then takes it to pieces to find where the beauty is hiding. I have ripped favoured novels to shreds to find...
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