This is Thunderdome, er, Mythic Scribes, Mindfire! Two men enter, one man leaves! Seriously, I've just never understood how message makes its...
Ouch! Careful where you point that thing! More seriously, how does theme, message or meaning play into discovery writing? I ask that as a...
I'm the opposite, I'm afraid. I can't write without planning. To a great extent I think that's because I don't write unless I have something I...
Hi all, Wondering if my fellow scribes had any suggestions as to some of the best writing guides out on the market, preferably in book or...
True -- as long as trying to match them doesn't get in the way of actually sitting down and writing the story (not saying that this is a problem...
Flags? Wow. Man, I just make that s**t up on the fly. E.g: The militia of Coleridge Town marches under the...uh...the red and gold! Yeah,...
I may have misunderstood the problem you're experiencing, but it occurred to me that you may want to look at each of your MC's journeys and ask...
Agreed with Taytortots. Go with it. It could be a nice change of pace from characters who are too perfect, too noble, too tortured, too dark,...
Not a problem. One of the best pieces of writing advice I ever got was from a Tony Hillerman interview where he explained that he doesn't even...
I'm afraid I don't know how to develop a character readers will root for, because I don't know (yet) if readers root for my characters. I've...
Advait, one thing that occurs to me is that the example scene we're responding to (the kitchen confrontation) is basically a dialogue scene. In...
Thanks Will, PMs are sent and received!
Greetings fellow scribes, I've finished about 11k words of my WIP which will likely end up at 20-22K words (so shading into a novella rather...
True -- there is the Scouring of the Shire, the battle with Saruman/Sharky etc. In this Tolkien is more thoughtful than his imitators even in...
I think the great thing about The Hobbit (compared to most other quest stories including the Tolkien imitators) is that the book doesn't end with...
Your example actually worked for me. It would work sequentially too, with Melody speaking first and then Wolf, but the implications it creates...
I'm with Chilari on this one. To a certain extent you could draw up a list of 3/5/7/10/whatever categories that encompass all plots, but the...
I tend to be in the same camp with Ireth around 'had' -- there are times it's the right tense & timing and so be it. I do find it kind of...
I've always been partial to the extremely futuristic society w/incredible technology in these situations -- Logan's Run is a good example from...
However illogical they might be, patriarchies do exist, while there is no conclusive evidence of matriarchies in the real world either now or in...
