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    Impetus for war

    After the first War of the Ring against Sauron, the victors faced the question of what to do with the thousands of Orcs that survived the death of their Lord. Being seen as inheriently evil by most people, the idea of killing all the Orcish prisoners wholesale was popular with the Men and the...
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    Impetus for war

    For 800 years the ORCS of the White Hand patrolled the highways of Men, and if they were beset by bandits or even lost, the sight of the white hand on a dark helmet atop an Orcish head was a relief to all Human travellers. On the other hand, if a Human or Dwarf were to accidentally wander into...
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    Writing can be more than just stories

    I have written a 100k word SF Space Opera novel, first beta-read by Ray Bradbury, which sits at 5-stars on Amazon. I have won or placed in two writing contests, including here on MS. But stories are not all that can be written, even within the realms of science fiction and fantasy. I am...
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    Homages- Plagiarism?

    Home, Homage, On The Range... First of all, there are seven plots, so there is no such thing as complete originality. Aristotle used Plato who used Socrates, and peeps have been arguing about all the sources "The Bard" W. Shakespeare used...or if you prefer to be cuter...paid homage to. A...
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    I just released 2nd Edition of my sci-fi / space-opera / super-hero novel

    I just had my novel re-edited by the renown Jefferson Swycaffer...and it's looking great! Nightfall: Book One of the Nightsong Space Opera, is a novel about a seeded colony that models its government on the British system; the book itself can be classified as space opera/royalpunk/superhero...
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    GoT and ASoIaF Discussion Thread [SPOILER-FEST - READERS ONLY]

    Well...this is supposed to be a zone that's OK for spoilers...am I right??? It's just...seems many of you have not read to the end of Book Five yet...that's all I'll say, for now anyway. =} Max
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    Game of Thrones Discussion Threads

    Game of Not Making Spoilers I suppose I am at sixes and sevens as to how to make comments on a GoT thread without making possible spoilers... Maybe that's why no-one else has commented? Also, how do you change your icon w/o changing it universally? Max
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    San Diego SF & F Writers

    We are few. We are new. We are focused on the aforementioned SF & F. We are already putting out the first novel to have gone through our "group". We are obviously in San Diego, CA, USA, and looking for folks who can meet therein. ...And I'd like to have more than just three of us =} However...
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    Most hated fantasy cliches: What do you think?

    I thought this list might revive the original theme of this thread. I recently submitted a story to Clarkseworld sci-fi magazine. This was a list of things they DID NOT want, c/p from their Submission Guidelines. I think this is more than just another list of someone's opinions about what they...
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    cross the irredeemable moral line?

    My just finished space opera, Nightfall, is the first in a planned series. In the first book we have a former space pirate (he was born to it as the son of the pirate 'king' and his presumed heir). Along his travels he bought a slave girl, who turns out to be telepathic (a Scorpian Minddancer)...
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    Dual swords + their weaknesses

    Oh, I fought dual-weapon, as well. Florentine style was two swords, one long one short. I also used a long sword primary and a one-handed falchion secondary (a one-handed axe with a much longer blade than most axes). Also, of course, sword-and-board. And spear. And greatsword. Even arched at...
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    Dual swords + their weaknesses

    I fought SCA (medieval armored combat) for 15 years...back when I could =} I was qualified with using almost every weapon and fighting form they allow. Flail was specifically NOT allowed in "regular sanctioned SCA events"...BUT it was used, in private house-run tourneys or private challenges...
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    Opinion about swords?

    Whole fantasy series have gone by wherein most (non-Dwarf) characters use only swords (LOTR). The elves, humans, and Hobbits all use swords. However, the world of swords is so incredibly varied, The ancient version of the Scottish Claymore (huge two-handed great sword, more an unsharp steel...
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    Several Things

    My favorite way to flesh-out less than three dimensional characters is to have two of them come together and have a conversation. Since I start with strong personality traits, these traits will either come into sync or come into conflict, and the scene starts writing itself...and inevitably I...
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    My Song Begins

    Greetings, my name is Maximillian d'Erembourg. Though I've been writing sci-fi and fantasy as an avocation for 30 years, I just this week finished my first novel, a Space Opera, Nightfall, book one of the Nightsong Space Opera. My beta readers are going over it one final time now, and I will...
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