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Mad Swede replied to the thread Writing Pointers.Well, as Prince of Spires has name-checked me I guess I'd better comment. :) As others have already said, the key to being a writer is... -
Mad Swede reacted to skip.knox's post in the thread Has medieval style fantasy had its day? with
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This one sets my historian's teeth to itching every time. I reckon I can scratch, once in a while. Place is one; Mad Swede has... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Has medieval style fantasy had its day?.Anyone who thinks that mainstream fantasy assumes a western European culture and aesthetic hasn't read enough. For a Byzantine style...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread I want to comprise a list (Of villains)....This is the even more expanded version! ;) The Very Complete, Very Extended, Printer Friendly, Evil Overlord List (plus other evil stuff)
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Has medieval style fantasy had its day?.I must have missed something here, Sinced when has the medieval period been confined to Western Europe? And what do you mean by...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.To put this much more harshly, what you are saying is that it is OK to steal. You may think that you're only talking about books, but...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Climate change in fantasy novels?.The first books I read where some sort of climate catastrophe had occured causing the ice caps to melt were Richard Cowper's books The...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.Wait one. When you give your book away (or set the price to zero) on a site like itch or Bandcamp or Amazon you are still in control of...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion. The only way you get respect for your written work is if people read it, and that only...
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30 years of creating, and thousands spent on production deserves more than 'gimme for cheap or I will pirate', but...thats not the world...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Worldbuilding without a story?.I sometimes think that this focus on developing a setting comes from people reading The Lord of the Rings and thinking that this was...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.And you and your book readings friends don't consider it disrepespectful to the authors when you say that a book being sold at full...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.What's being missed in this discussion is perceived value. By that I mean the readers perceptions of how good a given book is. Something...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Inspiration struck....Maybe. I seem to recall that David Gemmell could write a complete 500 page novel in a single weekend, so I'm not sure it's that unusual
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Inspiration struck....I am still, to use a British/Australian expression, absolutely knackered. Not only mentally exhausted, but also physically exhausted. My...