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    Dwarves of your Worlds.

    I built my Dwarves off the usual fantasy Dwarves, but I wasn't too keen on having them as loyal, brave soldiers like they are portrayed in a lot of worlds. I decided to make them to most cowardly of races and the most exploitive. They usual do what is best for themselves, and the only reason...
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    How to critique horrible writing?!

    It's better for them to know now and improve on it than continuing ahead as if nothing was wrong. My viewpoint has always been "I'd rather learn I'm doing it wrong now that learn I'm doing it wrong five years down the track." Personally I feel you should and give them critique on the framework...
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    Question About Third Person and Thinking

    So when writing in third person, I came across a situation I wasn't too sure how to deal with. When I'm expressing what my characters thinking as a question, should it be written as: "What am I doing here, he thought." "What am I doing here? He thought." "What am I doing here, he...
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    When is the right time to start?

    I think just give it a go. Personally, I think writing the back stories is a great idea. I'm sixteen myself and love writing, but I've exhausted my big idea that I spend ages planning on a book I know isn’t too fantastic. I can rewrite it later, but I don't know if I'll have as much enthusiasm...
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    What are your storytelling pet peeves?

    I've only really seen my pet peeve in TV - but I guess thats a form of storytelling. I hate it when the MC tries something and then they fail by just doing something stupid (e.g. not waiting for some glue to dry), but instead of just trying it again, they do some other elaborate scheme...
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    So you want to be a writer

    I really disliked it. In my opinion it is trying to say how much passion goes into writing, which is a good thing to say, but it was executed very poorly. Throughout the poem I was thinking "do I do that stuff" and it generally made me feel down. I have no intention of giving up writing and I...
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    Advice for Writers by Gerald Murnane

    Personally in my mind, television might help. But it really depends what you are watching. My leisure time is playing computer games, and just recently I have started playing Oblivion. This game has let me wind down, but more than that it has really inspired me to write. I think if you’re...
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    Mixing Science Fiction and Fantasy. Hybrid World?

    I wrote a story a while back about a fantasy world invaded by a hive minded alien race. Either way I really like when sci-fi is mixed with fantasy. It feels really awesome when you have people with swords cutting through aliens.
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    Comma Faults

    I have to agree, looking back through my work I feel that I am too reliant on commas. I'll probably put up some work on the showcase soon (after I've corrected the outstanding comma faults first).
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    Comma Faults

    So, I'm addicted to commas, I love them a lot. But last night, I was flicking through a grammar book and I came across comma faults. I use commas a lot in my writing, and I am struggling to really understand where the comma faults are and where the comma faults aren't. I am desperate to...
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    Book and Chapter Length Help?

    I really wouldn't mind about word counts. My book is just 70,000 words, which might be a bit too short - but I've worked out the rough page count it'll be - and it's exactly what I wanted. Even though it's under the 'average' fantasy word count, it is what I want. So, my advice it - don't worry...
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    I've never done this before...........

    I know how it feels, I'm very cautious when I tell people about my writing. I am a young writer, so I feel if I tell someone I write fantasy, they might think "oh, he must have only written 5 pages about dragons. I am worried that my age will make people take less seriously.
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    Violent Content

    I noticed when I started writing, my fighting scenes were far too graphic, because back then I wrote with the idea that gore=action=excitement. I feel gore is important to get across the damage of something, if it is your main character and he outnumbered, I think gore is important there because...
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    Writing in quicksand?

    For me, it would probably be after the first page. I've played over the initial sequence through my head like 5 times, but not put a thought about what I need to do next. Once I'm writing again, I try to forget all of my errors at the start - telling myself I'll fix them later. It works rather...
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    Need advice on my map

    Is that north to south or east to west, I've just always had trouble with travelling scale.
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