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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... -
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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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... -
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...
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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...
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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 Like.
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...
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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!