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Gurkhal reacted to Aldarion's post in the thread Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past? with
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Was the loss of population due to raiding hordes, however, or because countryside got devastated by the raids and the plagues, thus... -
Gurkhal reacted to AlexS's post in the thread Received my first response from a publisher! with Like.
It was a "Your manuscript has many strengths, but..." Well, that's a start.
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Gurkhal reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing! with Like.
You deserve an ice cream. Even just sending the manuscript off to an editor takes moxey. Go you! My editor is my wife. Think that makes...
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Gurkhal reacted to Michael Terrance's post in the thread Basing fantasy culture on real life cultures? with Like.
I have always found history, anthropology, philosophy, and languages interesting, and I think basing your world on real historical (or...
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Gurkhal reacted to DesinKalaScribe's post in the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing! with Like.
This is exactly how I felt throughout writing my book. I went through three complete re-writes. I changed major character...
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Gurkhal replied to the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing!.Welcome to the club. You are now certified to have writing as a hobby.
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Gurkhal reacted to MajinHotTuna's post in the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing! with Like.
Hi. First, let me also reiterate. I have a story plot (a basic overview, really), a story setting, and characters (just may need tweaks...
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Gurkhal replied to the thread How would I write a power to influence people's feelings without making it evil?.Or it can be written as comedy with the power hilariously backfiring or having comical side effects?
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Gurkhal replied to the thread Your first writings?.I started writing when I was a youngster and played the Warhammer Fantasy miniature games. There was a huge community of such fan...
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Gurkhal reacted to pmmg's post in the thread How do you keep writing when the motivation fades? with Like.
Make a habit and promise yourself small things. The promise I make to myself is one sentence a day. Does not even have to be a keeper...
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Gurkhal reacted to ThinkerX's post in the thread How do you keep writing when the motivation fades? with Like.
You make writing a habit. You write at least a few lines every day, even if you don't feel like writing, even if you think it is horrible.
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Gurkhal replied to the thread How do you keep writing when the motivation fades?.Waiting for motivation is like waiting for the sky to fall down. You'll be waiting for rather long time in that case. Better to soldier...
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Gurkhal replied to the thread Basing fantasy culture on real life cultures?.I do this all the time. Mostly because I love history and reading about historical cultures so I want to bring this to my stories.
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Gurkhal replied to the thread It's 1900's Japan, you're stuck in a horror story, would you trust a random priest wearing a fox mask?.I would probably not trust anyone. I may come to trust this priest later on but not at the start or the middle of the story.
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Gurkhal reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread Basing fantasy culture on real life cultures? with Like.
I think some parts of it are unavoidable. The environment partially shapes the culture. So the moment you take a real earth environment...