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I am a believer in starting the story at the point where everything changes. While I would say both snippets do that, it does seem to me... -
JLiana replied to the thread Just had a realisation....Oh, absolutely! I don't regret the effort, either. It helped me figure out how I write!
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I just threw out a chapter in my own writing. It happens. Don't view it as wasted effort. You needed to write those two chapers in order...
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JLiana replied to the thread Just had a realisation....Oh yeah, definitely! I'm not stopping because of this, I need to actually finish a first draft lol. It just made my head spin because I...
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I just realised the opening of my third chapter would be a fantastic hook for the introduction of my MC. Which would mean scrapping the...
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JLiana replied to the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot..Oh, there's monsters, magic, etc, it's just they're not exactly super important to the overall story. I saw a critique elsewhere that...
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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
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I have to ask: why do you think you have a fantasy novel? No magic, no monsters ...? There is an older genre of "fantastic" stories in... -
Who is the narrator, that chair over there? nah, too unreliable, maybe that cloud, nah too high and mighty, that gold fish? nah not a...
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JLiana replied to the thread First or third person?.Who's telling the story? What is the story? Who knows!
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Secret fourth option: Seventeenth person. Nobody will know what's going on if they can't tell who's telling the story.
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JLiana reacted to Gurkhal's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with Like.
I just want to say that low fantasy with as little magic as possible the fantasy I enjoy the most and I hope that the OP posts some...
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JLiana reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with Like.
Even Game of Thrones (the novel, not the whole series) is very low on magic. And it's a good portrayal of how you can do it. Going from...
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JLiana reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with Like.
If I were you I'd read a few fantasy books which don't have magic or monsters in them. Here are a few examples: The Lies of Locke...
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JLiana reacted to Karlin's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with Like.
The question is how to tell your readers what the setting is. You can drop a few details near the begining that will show this. A...
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JLiana reacted to pmmg's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with Like.
I would think a book cover or a blurb could do this before they buy. Characters need not be in a world with physical monsters to...