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Looking for your experiences! Did you ever write the classic scene in which the heros sit down together to come up with "the Plan"? The ingeneous or desparate plotting they have to do before they embark on their heist, rescue or invasion? How did you approach it? Did you use the plotting scene...

If you do, I'd advise you to research the real-world source of the word and the concept in Chinese folklore. So you know what you're working with - historically, culturally. If you just copy the gu exactly the way Reverend Poison used it, your use of the concept may by rights be called...

Hey Bags, Welcome! How did it come about that your book was re-published? Made me curious... Cheers, Silver

My take: They are not methods. They're descriptive 'rules'. Good stories often follow similar patterns. When analysed in retrospect, you can distill common elements that work well for stories in general. These structure are not prescriptive. Stories that follow a certain structure are not...

I feel I still haven't quite understood your point of unease. As I read this, your story focusses for about 8-9 chapters on a select set of POV characters who go through a very important event. During those chapters, other characters are not doing anything too important, so they don't get...

Oh why thank you for your helpful advice, I was desparately looking for that. Or I mean like... whut's this reply? ^.^

I never get where those capitals ever came from or why they're there, so... I use capitals in fantasy as I use them in our own life: for proper names, topological names and sometimes era's, that's it. This, to me, would probably feel confusing. Or rather, it would give the race when mentioned...

I'm terribly glad you said it. There's this common view that editing will make the story shorted, while I already know that when I come to editing phase, there will be whole chapters that need to be added - and was starting to feel anxious about that... Glad I'm not alone.

I don't really get your question. There isn't a particular chocolate. As far as I know, chocolate in general- or rather: cacao - is commonly said to be an aphrodesiac.

I hope mine was understandable. As I said I've never shared the magic system as a separate info piece before...

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Well don't question everything... Keep your eyes on the goal. Every PoV choice comes with pros and cons. & Only you know what your story needs. You've got this.

Alright, so my magic 'system'! My story is set on contemporary Earth, in a non-specified country that I'm modeling on countryside Germany, where hidden-away witching clans have practiced their magic since ancient times. The old world Magic comes from a parallel, invisible plain called the old...

Hi mr. clean (and everybody), Thanks for this post, it's a great challenge. In fact, it made me realize I have never attempted a summary description of the workings of the magic in my world. And it'd probably good to do so. I'll paste something in a post below. Reading about your magic system...

Not sure how useful anything I say is, because I am not in that situation myself. But it resonates with feelings I have in other aspects of my life, and I wonder if one of these things is what you need to hear: Ugh, fandom. I get that it can feel like that. Please always put that in perspective...