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    Types/Rules of Magic

    Evening all! I'm currently writing up the "rules" of magic for my world. Thus far, there are five categories. I've essentially written a thesis on the subject. However, I have hit a small snag. Can someone provide their opinions on the difference between glamour and shape-shifting for me? Is...
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    Fantasy Mounts

    One of my characters is an immensely powerful queen. She's the Heart of Magic Itself, part of a pantheon of pagan gods, and Queen of the Faeries. I want to give her a mount that isn't a horse, and had my heart set on a giving her a large hart or stag, but I fear it would end up being like a...
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    UK Fantasy Publishers and Agents

    Hi guys, I realise this is probably a bit old now, I just wanted to let you know that Inspired Quill accepted my submission, and my debut novel, The Old Ways, is going to be released in September!
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    UK Fantasy Publishers and Agents

    I guess I'm just impatient. I've wanted to be an author since I was four years old. I've been driven every single day since to strive to become an author, and although I've received more rejections than I can count (which is a lot. Don't want to brag, but I can count pretty high :) ), I refuse...
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    UK Fantasy Publishers and Agents

    That's wonderful, thank you! I've not tried them yet, I'll check them out! :)
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    UK Fantasy Publishers and Agents

    Hi guys! So, here's the thing. I'm a young British lady (I say 'young', I'm 23...), and I don't have a lot of experience with the "big bad world", so I'm looking for a little bit of friendly help from friendly people in the same boat as me. I completed my manuscript a little under a year ago...
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    So, how are we all?

    I'm having the opposite dilemma. Two of my characters are having a warm, loving, intimate chapter, and while they do admittedly love each other, neither of them are the lovey-dovey type. Especially the woman, she's something of an ice-queen. But no, apparently her lover has taken it upon...
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    So, how are we all?

    Oh my :-/ Stay safe!
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    So, how are we all?

    Oooh, I used to play Age of Empires religiously. I was never very good at keeping my temples from being destroyed, for some reason... I love designing covers, I'd spend hours searching for the perfect pictures :)
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    So, how are we all?

    I have writer's block, so I'm procrastinating here instead of writing :) How are we all doing tonight? I don't post that often, I hardly ever come here unless I'm really, REALLY stuck. I guess this is one of those times ^-^
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    Random thoughts

    Mustard, darling. We British taste good with mustard :)
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    Random thoughts

    Always be yourself. Unless you can be a dragon. Always be a dragon.
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    Do you have arguments with your characters?

    This was how my novel began. They would NOT leave me alone until I wrote their story.
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    Capitalisations regarding race/species

    In the original mythology, yes, they are courts of Faery. I've tweaked the legends however and in my novel they are classed as races of faery. I've also used the sidhe and selchie as different races, so as to not cause confusion.
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    Capitalisations regarding race/species

    Seelie/Unseelie or seelie/unseelie? They're both faery, or faekind. Which do you think would be better? Two races of the same species? Or different species of the same, er, genus? A friend of mine pointed it out this way: Is it a case of cats and dogs or is it a case of Englishmen and...
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