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after spending hours thinking about it i am not sure i could attempt this style with so little experiance with first person. I really think this could be really dynamic way of writing but i do not know if i can do this so soon. i think ill practice and work on it and maybe attempt this with a...

I think first and third person both posess draw backs that is always difficult to overcome. Though i do think that so long as you have strong writing skills and can create imagry that is focused and solid in the readers mind anything can be done. Now here is another question. For those that say...

I know the easiest way to keep the pov's clear would be each chapter having the character name like example Jack: Fire beneath the trees. easy way for people to know who is who. in book one i would only have four in the main book. a fifth for the prologue but he is not in the rest of the story...

So today in my lit class we were going over a few stories all in first person and i couldn't help but admire its effectiveness and power as well as the writing itself. It made me think of possibly writting my fantasy series in first person however it dawned on me that it would have a minimum of...

i cannot help but think of two examples for this. A song of ice and fire(aka game of thrones) and the wheel of time. ASOIAF uses real world curses. Pretty much ever single curse word we use in america appears in these books. I dont have a problem with this that much. there are times i feel the...

I think this is interesting and could create a pretty dynamic story with each character knowing only a handful of spells and each of them different or useful for a certain problem but also making people who practice and study magic horde the knowledge. Of course i am assuming that said spell...

They were once a horde in their past. currently they have established and actual empire and culture. They still have a powerful army but it is more disciplined and civil. In other parts of the world they have intergrated into other cultures and adapted their beliefs and cultural norms. so they...

Great comments guys i like hearing well reading your different thoughts and opinions. It made me decide that orc is not the original name of the species. they call themselves the óriás which is monster in Hungarian. The terms of orcs, ogers and goblins come from humans giving them those names...

that was awesome

all of your ideas have been handy and good thank you so much. A couple things i have decided for my orcs is that they are the mysterious race as they are very untrusting of other and tend to keep their wisdom and culture life to them selves. However if one ever truly befriends an orc they have...

So as i have been writing ive been thinking about my lore and the creatures that dwell within. I am really happy with alot of things i have created but i couldn't resist making some changes. this brings me to my first point. I came up with a concept for my dragons and it involves sort of the...

I really enjoyed eragon when i first read it at 14. It inspired me to attempt to write my first book. I enjoyed eldest and brisingr for the most part and like aspects of inheritance but as ive read other works i have come to hate major points in the series. All writers draw from other works...

So i read some review or view if you will on some pretty lengthy books and series that ive enjoyed. to name them A song of ice and fire and the wheel of time. Alot of people complain about the length of these books and the overall series. Is there a decreased interest in long books or stories...

Then your problem is not how you are writing it in this current chapter it is how you will reveal this information as the story progress's. Write the scene just describing what is going on and nothing about the past of these creatures. focus on the present. As your story continues you will then...

So for one of the major capitol's of my world i was thinking of using A'lam Iblis which is arabic for world despair. yes my villains do use this city as their home. Yes alot of violence has happend in this city. So to me the name fits so well. I have a deep love for the arabic language. so my...