Recent content by Lovi

I think it's good to remember that both sides should realistically have scouts scouting the area and the expected battlefields long before either party arrives at them, and both sides should have pretty good ideas of what the other side is attempting to do, so there wouldn't realistically be any...

I agree that the way Brandon defines the modes is more clear and practical, I also learned the definitions first from him. What I meant with understanding the mechanics was not tied to the definition, but rather what the mechanic wanted to say, and thought that you didn't find it useful at all...

There really isn't a difference to writing different genders, because the type of character you write defines what that character feels and notices and so on, not the gender. A noble lady will probably be more feminent than a female field worker, as well as a male butler or dress maker will be...

To Mythpoet, I didn't mean that any kind of fantasy is bad, because that is a subjective opinion. I just meant that I don't like to read the types of books that I don't like to read. Sure it's a tautology, but at least it's logically flawless. I haven't read that much fantasy or anything else...

What I mean is are they the traditional heroe's journey over and over again? Where you automatically can tell which characters live to the end, which ones die along the way and what will happen? With no surprising plot twists? And the non-optional Chosen One protagonist that defeats the villain...

If there aren't any strict definitions, then we can certainly keep calling them what we want, I just assumed that the literary world had pretty strict definitions to things like this. I think it's important to understand the mechanics behind the writing craft, in this case the narrative mode...

I'm currently reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson and, just like the Mistborn trilogy, it is awesome. I tried to read The Name of the Wind, started it twice, but couldn't get over half way, because it's simply so damn boring. Nothing interesting has happened, so I just gave up. I can't...

Malik made some good points about this. I consider the stories I read and learn to write to be entertainment, and for me they aren't some divine entities that manifested in my head and have to be escorted to the outside world in the exact form they were. All the different POV choices have...

All my previous knowledge of the omniscient and limited I got by researching and primarily from just that video by Brandon Sanderson. I based my definition on that video, as I've watched the both years' lecture series twice, but the Wikipedia article offered a very concise definition of what...

I didn't know what I'm writing is actually under omniscient, but that doesn't affect the writing itself at all. It's vital to know the correct terms in order to discuss with others, so in that sense the article was very useful. Your first two excerpts use what most people falsely call...

Making writing a daily chore is a good way to eventually do it out of habit, though I haven't tried this yet. What I find to be the biggest barrier before going and writing is having gotten positive feedback earlier. I can't quite remember the process that went on when writing the piece, but it...

I think the OP meant having a POV character that is completely outside the actual plot, which also means that there has to be at least one other POV character so that the actual plot can even exist. I think that having a character like this is a huge let-down, because all he does is something...

Then you should by all means test it. I started to think of some way to reduce the amount of having to plot out entire paths only to then roll and choose one of those. You could have a kind of formula that you fill with the variables that you get from rolling the dice. Say for example...

Obviously you'd have to invent the different outcomes for each crossroads where you'd roll the dice. And as I see it, if you can invent that many different possibilities early on, you should definitely analyze the options and design a path through the crossroads to make a good story. The reader...

Before getting into black metal I listened to stuff like Cradle of Filth, and consider Dimmu Borgir to be closely the same category. So I don't listen to either anymore, they just lack the impact and atmosphere I'm looking for. This one I linked in the original post, let's see if I can get the...