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  • Z
    Hi everyone, So this is my first novel I'm looking to publish and I've started it without really thinking this potential problem...
  • pmmg
    No one will stop you from using AI. There is no rule. But some will not like it, like me. IMO, any AI is AI use. You say, but i...
  • Bob Parker
    I was going to try the hybrid woute to publishing my latest book, having used KDP for my first two. THe first book i published was 50...
  • Mad Swede
    Mad Swede replied to the thread Coming up with the plan.
    I think the use of planning scenes also varies with the way you write. If you're writing in close third person then a planning scene can...
  • Miles Lacey
    Miles Lacey replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..
    I went for a calendar of 13 months of 28 days each which equalled 364 days and a stand alone day for New Year's Day. Every fourth...
  • Incanus
    Incanus replied to the thread Coming up with the plan.
    I partially agree. I would say that big planning scenes are never ONLY about the plan. Which is part of a larger piece of generally...
  • CupofJoe
    CupofJoe replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..
    If no-one has mentioned it before, I have found this site helpful in creating calendars: https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/calendar/ In...
  • Prince of Spires
    Prince of Spires replied to the thread Coming up with the plan.
    I've been thinking on this a bit, and my conclusion is that the big planning scenes are never actually about the plan. The plan is just...
  • SamazonE
    SamazonE replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..
    I like time machines, they are romantic. So very much inspired by Majors Mask. There is the usual day and night cycle, about 20 days in...
  • T
    ThinkerX replied to the thread Elf and Asia Culture.
    'Elves' = 'Gandhrvas/Aparusu' in South Asia, or close enough to make no difference. Gandharvas are male musicians/bards, while Aparasu...
  • M
    MSadiq replied to the thread Elf and Asia Culture.
    If you widen the scope of Asia to mean all of Asia, then you'll come to find that the Dwemers of the Elder Scrolls, at least...
  • M
    MSadiq replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..
    It feels so weird reading this because I have two worlds, too, and one of them is also very dim, though that's due to the sun being...
  • T
    ThinkerX replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..
    The calendar is pretty much planet-wide. The secondary world has a 360-day orbit with two smallish moons, one on a 15-day cycle, the...
  • Ž.J.
    Ž.J. replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..
    Well this specific calendar was invented, around 800 years before the current year, when there existed a single empire, uniting most of...
  • Mad Swede
    Mad Swede replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..
    This is something I don't describe in my stories. That's partly because in a setting where most people can't read or write (or have only...
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