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    Insolent Lad replied to the thread Where to Write.
    Being old-fashioned (or maybe just old) I do all my writing off-line, mostly using LibreOffice. Drafting on my laptop, comfortably on...
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    Insolent Lad replied to the thread Gods and Wizards.
    Some world-building notes, mostly about gods: The Gods
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    Insolent Lad replied to the thread Writing a magazine article?.
    Wrote quite a few when I was younger but they were mostly for fitness and bodybuilding magazines. The world has changed a lot since I...
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    Insolent Lad replied to the thread Web Novel Platforms.
    Royal Road is supposedly better for fantasy-oriented writing (as well as, ah, 'spicy' stories) but it's hard to be noticed on any platform.
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    As much of Pratchett's writing, I think this should be taken as a tongue in cheek exaggeration. That doesn't mean there's no validity to it.
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    Insolent Lad reacted to Malik's post in the thread Ask, you may be surprised with Like Like.
    Back before the internet, you would call a research librarian and ask them stuff. They'd get back to you, usually within a few hours...
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    Insolent Lad replied to the thread Trialectic?.
    I can say I've never come up with a plot without first having a character to build it around. Only then can I figure out something for...
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    Insolent Lad replied to the thread Discovery mapping.
    Once I have a map I generally take the attitude 'this is your world, deal with it,' and build the narrative to match it. Just as I would...
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    As in his pseudo-Chinese culture with Chinese-sounding names, he had to throw in someone named McSweeney.
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    Insolent Lad replied to the thread Tall Dwarfs....
    One could always have an adopted human who thinks he's a dwarf, like Carrot Ironfoundersson in the Discworld novels. And Moorcock had a...
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    Insolent Lad replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.
    I finally chose to ignore piracy of my books altogether and followed Cory Doctorow's example of giving away the ebooks. If nothing else...
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    Ah, Asimov did a story with fairies as large insects, who ruled the world way, way back in time.
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    Actual 'little people' --- sprites and brownies and such -- have only shown up in my children's books and I went with the conventional...
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    Insolent Lad reacted to Malik's post in the thread Fiction vs realistic with Like Like.
    I write "hard fantasy." I made a career out of writing fantasy that elevates suspension of disbelief into plausible deniability...
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    Pixabay tends to be my first stop for art. Yeah, it has AI slop too but one can choose not to have it shown.
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