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“a huge individual” – would be a stronger impression if the first description is something inhuman, ephemeral, like “a hulking shadow”... -
Nighty_Knight reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread Is redeeming a really nasty villain this way good? with
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Fun fact: Sauron was actually offered the same deal. He just didn't take it... Source: the Silmarillion. At the end of the first age... -
Nighty_Knight reacted to Miles Lacey's post in the thread Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past? with Like.
Just one thing to keep in mind when looking up population figures for a city in 1900. The boundaries of the city in 1900 may not be the...
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Nighty_Knight reacted to pmmg's post in the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing! with Like.
Write it ugly <--give yourself permission to. Nothing beats that for getting words on page. All words can be fixed expect those not...
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Nighty_Knight reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing! with Like.
First the headache. I have chronic migraines, so this isn't my first rodeo. I have no idea whereabout you are, but my initial go-to for...
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Nighty_Knight reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing! with Like.
Sorry? You think anyone in publishing has a clue? Let me put it this way. I have a publishing contract and four books out there, and I...
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Nighty_Knight replied to the thread What Are You Playing Now?.I started the FFT Chronicles of Ivalice remaster and the Soul Reaver 1 and 2 remasters
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Dragon's Crown is quite an old game, but I started to play it some time go, and I really like it. Not the genre I usually prefer, but...
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Nighty_Knight reacted to Naruzeldamaster's post in the thread Descriptions of fight scenes with Like.
I don't have a whole lot of fight scenes written down yet, I do have one written down but it's a very classic take of each step of the...
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Nighty_Knight replied to the thread Descriptions of fight scenes.To me it's no different than telling a story. It is a story. What is happening, why, what are the results of each action and overall. I...
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Truth is, the blow by blow seldom matters. What matter more is the outcome, and what did it show about the characters. There are many...
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Keep the sentences short and the descriptions to a minimum. No exposition, no reflections, just movement and pain.
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The standard advice for a fight scene is to skimp on the blow-by-blow details and to focus on what the character is thinking and feeling...
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For me, a blow-by-blow or move-by-move description would bore me to tears. I think a more abstract approach, describing the sensation...
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It's taken about two years, but finally got a first draft finished. The novel is not really fantasy, more like magical realism...