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JLiana reacted to Lila_Pierce's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with
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I would probably include key details like if there is any magic or different species like dwarves and dragons etc. even if you aren't... -
JLiana reacted to Michael Terrance's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with Like.
You might consider having a quick read through one or two of Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. The world is clearly one of...
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JLiana reacted to Toob Waysider's post in the thread What random rabbit holes have you gone down while researching? with Like.
Except for research into Firbolgs, the Winsted Wildman, and "pub & club settings", I can't remember how any of the others began now...
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JLiana reacted to casval's post in the thread What random rabbit holes have you gone down while researching? with Like.
One of the stories I've been working on takes place on a space colony, so I read a book from the 70s called The High Frontier: Human...
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Come up with different ways in which you can incorporate these chapters. You may even find you like the new ideas you come up with better.
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There are flashbacks in movies. One screenplay I had a pirate just standing at the prow. The peice was a bit dirty, but I had fun with...
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Don't scrap those chapters. Just repurpose them.
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It happens to a lot of writers. Brandon Sanderson has mentioned several times that he regularly makes a few attempts at his opening...
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JLiana replied to the thread Just had a realisation....For sure, for now I'm just writing the third chapter as a third chapter, and then I'll see how the rest of it goes before I get rid of...
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Be careful about making big changes before you finish the first draft. What may appear to be a good decision in isolation may later be...
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JLiana reacted to skip.knox's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with Like.
OK, so it's a fantasy setting, but ... we don't know it? Ordinary setting (for whatever time period; you didn't specify). Normally, we...
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Write the whole story, then come back to the first few chapters. You may find that re-arranging the order in which some things happen or...
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Count yourself lucky it is only two chapters. I made it ten chapters into the WIP before realizing I'd started it in the wrong place...
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JLiana reacted to xena's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with Like.
I think it can absolutely work! You don’t need magic or dragons, small details like how people interact with the world can signal it...
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JLiana replied to the thread Just had a realisation....Yeah, absolutely! I'm learning to cut things in my writing, I knew cutting chapters would eventually creep up and get me. But I super...