Recent content by Karlin

I've been thinking about this . I'm coming from a different angle, the characters. Do the characters need a planning session? I wouldn't try to manipulate the reader. If the characters need the planning, then the reader needs it too. Not sure if your characters need a planning session? Ask...

The book I recently finished (not published yet) has a planning session in someone's kitchen, where the "heroes" go over posisble options, and decide on a course of action. They do in fact follow up on that, as best as they can. Circumstances are more complicated than they may have thought, but...

Hello Talk with Hands. I recall that there was a sign language among Native Americans, which they used to communicate between different tribes. Here, found a link: welcome aboard

67 here, retired, and glad to be. I don't write fantasy per se, but this is a decent place to hang out. I\

I think they've spent enough time with me already

what do you mean by "accredited author"? and good luck!

I'm writing a time travel story. The time travel is to the character's future (500 years), and takes place through a mystical experience, so I am not concerned with the technicalities. I'm curious to see how he will view his own grave.

There are Nabatean ruins in the desert (Negev) here. We visited one fairly recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivta

the original 1960's Little Shop of Horrors!

There are first hand accounts of battles, but, as far as I know, only fairly recent ones, which means firearms, not swords and the like. Though Mad Jack Churchill supposedly carried a longbow and a broadsword into battle in WW2. `And a bagpipe.

Welcome aboard. Note that there are no life preservers here.

I watched Metropolis on my computer. It would be different in a theater. Wizard of Oz- I saw it many times as a child, but on TV.

I'm with skip and swede on this. Write it as it feels natural to you. The worse that will happen is that it will come out lousy, but 1) it is likely fixable, 2) you'll have learned, and 3) You'll be way ahead of where you'd be if you'd spent the same time learning "the technical aspects of...

well, there's that old "write what you know". So, taken to an extreme- get into some fights. If you survive, you'll be able to write about fights. Assuming you still have fingers. I was going to suggest reading first hand accouints of such fights, but I don't know if there are any.

You have to work this out for yourself. I can tell you what I do, though I am not that consistent. I have to finish, and know that I finished. This isn't trival for a confirmed pantser. I recently finished a novel, and I didn't know how it was going to end till I was over 90% done. Maybe this...