Recent content by Ross

Yeah i would agree with the comment about continuing with both arcs and also the comment about figuring out the ending. Then just find a way to link the two arcs to the ending and youre away! Nothing wrong with multpile pov

I'd say just make them the underdog and heap troubles on them like you hate them yourself! Everybody can sympathise with somebody who has led a terrible life. Of course, loss and tragedy in the character's past will only add to this. Hesitation and second-guessing can also make a character more...

The Blade Itself, then on to Before They Are Hanged, by Joe Abercrombie. It's a new, gritty fantasy trilogy. Gripping stuff so far!

The most cliché … It's got to be the Forbidden Forest - there's one in every fantasy book more or less. It's so overdone ... but still so mysterious and enticing!

I agree with a lot of the other posts here. I think there are two good, common ways to create a believable villain, the first being the zealot. You can create a villain who is the hero of his own story, who believes he is doing good but has taken 'a little evil for the greater good' to an...