Recent content by sarasvati

I don't remember the last time I updated here. I have been busy with life and writing like mad in between, managing a chapter a day (although this past Sunday's was completed after midnight, I am still counting that day as a success!). So I'll just update for today. Day 12: 36K-something I am...

I've done both first and third, depending on the needs of the story, but I think I end up using third more often. Even when getting pretty deep into POV, like A. E. Lowan, I enjoy some of the freedoms of third person. It's also easier when doing stories with multiple POV characters. Right now...

My understanding (from the role-playing and fanfic communities I frequented) was that a Mary Sue was the author's wish fulfillment character. The character never really has to try because the author just hands everything to them on a silver platter. It's boring because we know the character is...

Day 6: I made my word goal. The day's writing flew by because I finally got to use my favorite secondary character. I can't believe it took 7 chapters before he showed up. Day 7: I spent a lot of the day on research (aka digging around an antique store for interesting props) and when I first...

I'm a little late to the party, because NaNo has actually kept me so busy for the first few days that I wasn't doing much posting anywhere. Hopefully it's okay for me to jump in now. Day 5: Things were going well because I had an outline, so I would just sit down and write. But now I'm getting...

sarasvati.river is my name these days. (Had a different one when I started, but lost the email it was linked to.)

Ah! Interesting that you mention John Dee specifically. I just finished reading Midnight Come Never, a fantasy story about faeries in Queen Elizabeth's court, where John Dee plays a significant role. Spoiler: for most of the book, faeries are actually the ones speaking to him in order to...

I've been lurking around the forums for a few months and thought it was finally time that I introduced myself here. I love the resources and discussions that happen in this forum, especially for world building. I find this place to be a lot more in-depth than most other writing communities out...

If you were looking for an animal that represented order, I would suggest some type of insect. Social insects are actually more organized in their society structures than any species of mammal. Bees, for example, with their hierarchy of the Queen over the Workers, run their hives very smoothly...