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The words were in the common language, and thankfully, I understood them, despite the strong, clipped accent.

That’s exactly what I was talking about, so great example. 🙂 That’s how I like to describe accents. I guess what I’m needing now is more words to describe accents rather than the normal: rough, thick, gravely, twangy, and the such. All those descriptions are polarizing and almost trite because when I read fantasy books it seems that the kind’ve out-of-the-way cultures or non-main character cultures have those less than pleasant accents. I like the “strong, clipped” description though, that gives me a sense of her accent, without any strange roughness or ambiguousness.

I’m not sure about that “rocky shore” phrase XD It was a while ago and I wasn’t used to this character voice yet, I might end up clarifying it. What do you think?)

At first I wasn’t so sure about it, but the more I read it the more the imagery makes sense and I actually quite like it. xD It does go down that “rough and thick” alley I’m not a fan of though.

Okay, so my brain is about to explode trying to figure out how I should utilize character arcs and story structure. I am already quite lax with the three act story structure, and I focus more on the basic principle characters overcoming internal and then external obstacles, and showing their journey of the underdog, or hero, or whatever it might be. However, I do like to keep a close tie to the three act format for characters, and I’m running into problems with that. In my first book of the series, there is a central character who has a complete arc in the book that loosely fits the three act structure (though I tend to focus on the Inciting Incident, First Plot Point, Midpoint, and Climax of the internal journey). However, in my first book there are two other main characters in particular that have plenty of internal conflict or at least a major flaw or weakness. They struggle with this in the book, but my question is, can I just have them struggle with it in book 1? Can I just show their conflict/weakness/lie they deal with, and not have a midpoint for it? My plan was to have their midpoints for their arcs (aka, the point they start to change and beat their lies) in book 2 (and maybe even in book three for one of them). Thoughts?

Oh, and can I just say that having such a variety of betas is hilarious. Your least favorite part of the book (the mid section with a lot of fighting–which you gave great tips for improving it btw) is one of my other betas’ favorite section of the book. xD

I do plan on discussing some of those beta answers you left btw, I’ll get to them sometime soon.