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Could I check out the rest of your Swordsman of Carn Nebeth story? I have to know what the "trouble" was that started the next day. Hellova cliffhanger. If your cool with it, my email is [email protected]. So far it's a great read!

Thanks for everybody's suggestions and thoughts...as it turned out I combined a few of the above suggestions, and broke the journey up into two legs: The first boring half I let pass with a few brief sentences about how easy going, uneventful and even pleasant the trip was (inspired by...

I have reached a point in my WIP where I want to skip a few weeks ahead to avoid following a pair of travelers as they travel by foot, mostly uneventfully, to their distant destination. But I'm torn...by not portraying their travels, I feel like I'm losing the opportunity to develop the...

I would start with the world itself, as in the locations and the people, and figure out how to incorporate the fantastics afterwards. For example, take a realistic snapshot of the European high middle ages, which were inherently rugged what with the Crusades and Black Death, as well as any...

Ravana...I hadn't actually considered what this question might mean to an editor. Since I'm just now working on my first real project, I've never really worked with an editor, so I didn't even think to consider this. This might be slipping slightly off subject, but do you think stuff like...

Googled Turkey City Lexicon...wow. A boatload of helpful stuff mostly geared toward SF writing but it applies accross the board to Fantasy and pretty much anything else. I had no idea that there was a name for every thing I worry about when I'm writing. Said Bookism, Tom Swifty, Burly Detective...

I remember 5th grade English Class, and a specific worksheet in which we had to take a really long sentence, such as: He tried to answer aloud, but much of his face had been smashed to an unrecognizable bloody mass, and his jaw was naught but bone-dust and ragged meat, and all that came out...

I feel like this game is going to cause a lot of stress in my marriage...it already has. See, I tried to reserve the collectors edition. Full art book, foot tall statue of Alduin the World Eater, AND making-of DVD? Oh and the game, of course. Apparently before dishing out 150$ on a video game...

Yeah so I know this thread hasn't been very active lately...but in preparation for Skyrim I have been replaying Oblivion for the 73rd time, and realizing all over again just how absolutely wicked this game is. So Oblivion got my vote. Mass Effect 2 a close second. 13 was my least favorite Final...

Dreamhand...I'm with you when it comes to being hesitant to adopt any hard and fast rules. As with many other things, I'm sticking with the "everything in moderation" approach (as I top off my Hennessy and Red Bull glass). But after reading everyone's thoughts on the subject, I am leaning more...

I read the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. Constantly. As in as soon as I finish the last page of book seven, I open the cover of book 1, The Gunslinger, and start again. Just so I can relive the experience of reading the first line: "The man in black fled across the desert, and the...

HA glad it's not just me then. Thanks for the welcomes!

I agree 100% with what you're saying, Darkstorm, I was just giving an example. I'm sure if I was a reader in the late 1800s my view of this would have been much different...especially since nowadays I could just Google search "species of fish" and copy and paste a similar list from the...

Overuse of exposition: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Literally 2-3 pages of descriptions of marine life viewed through the windows of the Nautilus every other chapter before finally returning to the narrative, leaving the reader going "What was happening before I read about 146 different latin...

Thanks to everybody for input. Very helpful. I've actually been debating whether or not I should use tags more sparingly. I worry that the dialogue by itself will not fully convey the intended mood. After reading everybody's responses, I'm kind of thinkin my possibly excessive use of tags is...