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Mad Swede replied to the thread How to Give Names "Power" (Not Religiously) ?.You know, this isn't about names, it's about reputation. Sure, Edward Teach was known as Blackbeard. But it wasn't his nickname that... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Writing about sex, intimacy and relationships.OK, then I'll modify my question a little. Are you using her journey as the basis or frame for a story about how and what she learns...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Writing about sex, intimacy and relationships.Yes, holding back on the sex is an option, even in a story written in that style. Good examples would be Raymond Chandler and Dashiell...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread What was hard to write?.Seriously? It just happened. I didn't start out with that intention, I wanted to write standalone books. I tried to make the stories...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread What was hard to write?.I wonder if you're not overthinking this. Maybe that is simply the way you write. There is this image of writers as people who sit down...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Writing about sex, intimacy and relationships.As others have written, use a fade to black when it comes to sex. That's what I do and it works fairly well, most readers can picture...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Transitory Groups.No. A drover is someone who drives livestock to market. It's an English term, and it is closely connected with the term "grazier". A...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Those Pesky Characters.For me the characters all feel alive from the start. Maybe it's the way I write, but I never worry about getting them right and I never...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Transitory Groups.Yes, such people do exist in my setting. But they're not on what you might call the periphery of society, they're an accepted part of a...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Remarkable Works I've Read.I've mentioned this book before here on the forums, but the book the made the biggest impact on me was Astrid Lindgren's Bröderna...
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A Canticle for Leibowitz! Walter M. Miller. A classic. If you haven't read it- do so.
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I've always been complimented on how well I write women but I've never written a female 1st person POV. The opportunity has just come...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Are classical tropes overdone?.Yes, I am a published writer in Sweden and not with any of the sk hybridförlagen. No I'm not going to tell you my pen name or real name...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Origin Stories.I did write the origins of the world story/legend for my setting but it hasn't appeared or been mentioned in any of the books yet...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Apocalyptic events..The setting most of my stories are based in went through a civil war a few years prior to the stories happening. That's more than...
