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I found it mildly amusing that the last two books I read (Dawnthief, Magician), have the quintessential Gandalf within the first chapter, with a pipe smoking wizard. Doesn't make them less fun if they're done right though, have to say I agree with desmon above: it's all about how well the writer...

Hi Stevie, nice job on getting some books done/cracking on! I find that a lot of people I meet tend to struggle with the discipline to get words down – clearly not you. Welcome

We were immediately quarantined. But I didn't care, because Dr. Phlox (?) refused to leave the room, and he is great. But that all changed, when the alert started sounding and I felt the reverberation of torpedos hitting the hull. The doctors stopped discussing taking over the ship to get back...

I know I'm off-topic, but this is probably the best off-the-cuff explanation I've heard of the separation of the two genres, for those books that stick to the genre hard and fast. It's why I like [hard] sci-fi, because I love thinking that it could actually happen, and it's also why I like...

Actually being ridden by Harry, Hermione, and the ginger one, and to make it worse, they had all pulled out their wands and were pointing them down at...

Arnold schwarzenegger fell out between two pillows, grappling in deadly combat with Jon Snow. And now the Pterodactyls had come out and were swooping in. I swished my Sonic Banana up, so I could see the dial, and pressed in the code to make it...

I panicked, not prepared for this at all, jumping back outside to find a...

I've seen this done before, and it's been positively hilarious. No arbitrary rules on length or anything, just continue the chain by continuing the story. I crept towards the black silhouette outlined against a backdrop of stars. I knew it was a beached ship, but it was hard to tell without...

We're going strong now with six great people, room for a couple more.

This is really a simple question for me, not that I don't respect all the philosophical escapee's above. Wizards are cool. Swordfighters and gunslingers and fantastical races are cool. Dragons and other fantastical creatures are cool. If they all happen to have conflicting interests, or...

I've got a thing, where if I'm reading a book and it uses a peculiar word that I've not come across before, I like it. You know the ones... where the author will name the particular part of a piece of armour or whatnot, which as the armour is no longer a thing in the real world, the name of that...

Just an update - we now have enough people in the group for feedback to start/critiques to start (and they have). You should come.

The problem is perhaps the sentences not the style. They are both a bit bland [I have a strong suspicion you just whacked them out for the example], but more importantly they also they don't actually compare the same thing, because one involves flying and one doesn't – so can't really compare...

Hello, How long for the 65k words, going to hit the 3.5month target? Also what a mean village girl, eating her master's heart – griffon or not!