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    Working To A Schedule?

    I try to write 15 minutes a day, every day. And when I say "write", I mean write. Not plot, not stare at my computer screen, not try to get in the mood with some music. I do all of that beforehand--I'm constantly thinking about the next step--, I have my playlist figured out and playing before I...
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    Unexpected/Little Influences

    Like most of y'all, I've been influenced by tons of books. I think the Drizzt trilogy ranks up there, along with Jurassic Park, the Liveship trilogy, and a few others. Alien and Aliens, as my favorite movies, are also big influences. One thing that I'm extremely grateful to have experienced is...
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    Write the story you want to read?

    The story I'm working on is a story that I want to read, but haven't found yet. So I follow that line of thinking completely.
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    Intimidating/frightening Appearances

    I can't really think of any actual physical appearance that is terrifying. For me, it's all in the body language. Someone who is acting shifty, studying you, looking for an angle, is nerve-wracking. As others have said before me, someone who is alien in behavior. They miss "the beat"; the right...
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    Writing a fantasy novel with a female protagonist

    You'd have to be very descriptive of the sammich-making process to last 400 pages. Maybe change up the setting. Introduce conflict. You could make it a whole quest. A woman goes to make a sammich, but there's no ingredients. She must go to the store. But it's in the middle of the zombie...
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    Help, I just used the word "strumpet"

    @ Caged Maiden, sounds like you might be freaking out prematurely. I think there's nothing wrong with strumpet (or @ Devouring Wolf's suggestion--floozy...which actually sounds better to me than strumpet...), and when I read fantasy, even fantasy that's supposed to be occurring in setting and...
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    The Clearing

    ***Warning: some adult language*** It was almost noon on a nice day. The sun was shining white in the blinding blue sky. He had never seen such a nice day. Really. Everything was highlighted, embossed, bought to three-dimensional life. The discarded sword, snapped in half, metal dull with...
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    Holiday Songs

    Love this time of the year. It always brings me back to when I was young, sitting in front of a bay window, glass spattered and running with rain, curled up in a cushioned circular chair that swiveled back and forth, reading a book and listening to old Christmas music on tape. I'm out in...
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    Writing LGBTQ+ Characters

    Just read through the backlog and I've got a few thoughts. As a black woman, there are a few sensitivities to having "other" people write characters that are supposed to represent me. And maybe that's just because a lot of the time, the minority character is the only minority character, so...
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    How bad is too bad?

    My characters are on various points of the "not acceptable behavior" distribution. I think the worst of them is a favorite of mine, essentially a psychopath, but so innocent and child-like about it, I find it hard to step away and realize, oh, yeah, what he wants to do is kind of evil...
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    The most frightening aspect of a character.

    I apologize for resurrecting a dead thread, but I enjoyed reading through the backlog. I'm sure others have mentioned it, but the image that kept coming up for me while reading this thread was an aerial image of someone swimming in the ocean. You can see them, kicking along in aqua waters, but...
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    What's Up?

    Hey all... Made this account a while ago, but never really used it. I'm planning on doing my own NaNoWriMo starting in January (was doing fieldwork in November) and thought that maybe being part of a community will keep me up on my daily writing goals. I'm hoping to finish the first draft of...
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