1) Your world will be accurate (and let’s face it, most fantasy worlds are more similar to the real world than different from it). You avoid jarring the reader with impossible situations (that should still be impossible in your world) or weird and illogical combinations of time periods…[Read more]

I got 33929. I’m quite pleased with that, except for the fact nearly half of it is going to be deleted, because it was for a novel that isn’t going the way I want so badly that I need to start again from scratch haha.

I can’t wait to find out what our total is!

My character Isbyl Startide:

1) Always has an art project on the go

2) Constantly moves her hands, so fiddles with her necklace or hair if there’s nothing else to do

3) Acts calm and confident but secretly suspects she’s a failure

1) Create functional but cliched fantasy world

2) Delete several races for being too cliche and add a new one instead, thus messing up all the history already made up

3) Create dozens of inconsistencies by writing several stories in the same world and changing things for plot convenience

4) Hit head off…[Read more]

I am quite pleased with my characteristic moment, though. It basically…[Read more]

I tried plotting in great detail, but I…[Read more]

I decided to try my hand at flash fiction and I’ve written two pieces, one based on a painting and one on a song. I’d really appreciate it if you could give me some feedback on one or both of them.

I know a lot of you are busy with NaNo just now, so don’t worry about it if you don’t have time.…[Read more]

Anyway, I think what you’re saying is that the only answer you’ll accept is a Bible verse that actually says negative character arcs are alright, or that can be interpreted to mean that. If I’m right, I’m afraid…[Read more]

It certainly doesn’t mean there’s no hope… unless you’re going to write about your character in hell at the end, but I’m…[Read more]

My theme is fear, and the focusing question is “how should we respond to our (real, legitimate) fears?”. Answers I’m exploring would be:

Find the…[Read more]

I guess most topics vague enough to be used as a theme could be construed positively if you try hard enough 🙂

One of my favourite books, A Wizard of Earthsea, is about ambition. My WIP is about fear.

Good luck, though!

I’m definitely better with prose than I used to be, though it’s hard to work out how much is down to the Guild since I’ve been studying it from other sources as well 😛 Some of your lessons were particularly helpful, though, like showing vs. telling and describing settings. Thanks!

I’ve just seen a lot of things around lately where people try to argue that girls are basically incapable of fighting or doing any strenuous activity at all, so I’m quick to get defensive. It’s probably a counter to the strong female…[Read more]

Maybe that’s…[Read more]

Thanks @j-a-penrose 🙂

Just wanted to make sure 🙂

I did plan them to kind of develop in reverse to each other, if that makes sense. Because they’re siblings and spend most of the story together, they encounter most the same situations but respond in…[Read more]

Right, let’s do this! What’s everyone’s preferred genre? Mine’s fantasy, but then mine’s always fantasy 🙂

I’ll pick Suri, the MC and one of the narrators of my story Sharpened Blade. She’s human but lives in a dark-elven city -and is actually a spy for the light-elves. She’s generally sweet and doesn’t like to hurt other people, so she hates being a spy but (for reasons I’ll not go into here) feels s…[Read more]