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    Rite Of Passage - Chapter One: Blacksmiths apprentice

    This is the first chapter of the novel I've been writing. I hope to eventually get it published and I would like to think what fellow writers thought of it. After all this is supposed to grip the audience and reel them in, and I hope I have put in enough questions for the audience to ponder...
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    Looking for a skilled artist

    Right, I'm not sure if this is really cheeky of me or not but here goes. If the fate of the world depended on me drawing a mediocre picture of an person, the world would be doomed as I doubt the villain would except my expertly crafted stick men as 'mediocre'. Lets face it I don't. The...
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    1800s Warfare

    When your thinking about cannon, it is very easy to just think of the smooth, long barreled 24lb cannons, but don't forget this was a time of great technological advancement in the world. The Ottoman empire designed a gun that had six barrels that would fire simultaneously (although it was a...
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    Fantasy writers in the East Midlands?

    Yeah that sounds good Chilari, and I think Shropshire sounds like the kind of place I'd love to visit sometime, I love olden-times type places. I studied at Lincoln Uni and in Lincoln there is a massive hill, and up the hill is the cathedral, all the streets around the cathedral are cobblestone...
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    Fantasy writers in the East Midlands?

    I think Derbyshire isn't that far from Leicester, and hour and a bit on the train maybe depending on where in Derby. To be honest I didn't expect responses to this for a couple of days
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    Love sub-plot?

    I have three books in mind following my first character, and only in the first one is there a hint of a love sub-plot. I say a hint as it doesn't go any further than similar views and opening up to each other. However I do like what was said about a married adventuring couple, as that is what...
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    plot worries?

    This story has one character is that right? in which case you can't rely on other good natured, optimistic, larger than life supporting characters to help her see the change. I'd say it is interactions with other characters that help bring a pessimistic character out of their pit, especially if...
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    Fantasy writers in the East Midlands?

    Hey I come from Leicester, but I was wondering if there were any other scribes on here from around the East Midlands area. Would be cool to meet some local fantasy writers, as my friends are not the sort that I can discuss this stuff with all too well :S. Hope to speak soon
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    Do you like my design of magic? And can anyone think of anymore types that I can add?

    Concept of Magic In Aleria, magic is the buildings blocks of everything. The creators themselves are simply conscious masses of magic energy, and so all they create are created with and influenced by magic energy. Magic energy is present all over Aleria; however the ability to feel and...
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    World Building: How do you start?

    It might be easier to build the world first, and then the plot. Now most people will already have there plot (or the frame of it anyway) in there minds already, and there characters so it might be easier to build the world around the plot and characters. DO not forget the all important rule of...
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    Ask me about Muskets

    Well as it says I have a fondness for muskets and cannon. I started researching the concept after studying the Napoleonic times a bit, and I found the rapid speed of technological development in this era fascinating. I know a lot of things about musket and cannon, and if I don't know it I will...
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    A fantasy with muskets!

    Right guys, do you know any fantasy novels that use muskets? I've included them in mine because I think muskets (and repeaters) were the last stage of warfare before one soldier could wipe out an entire platoon with a good machine gun placement. I want my books to be original, but also be...
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    Hello all you writers out there!

    My name is Russell Hawkins and I have been enamoured with fantasy fiction ever since I was a little boy and I read the Redwall books for the very first time. I have since then spent a lot of time researching historical facts and reading other fantasy epics (like the wheel of time & The...
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