Story_Guardian

@rose-colored-fancy you aren’t the only one who totally forgot this place existed. *facepalm* I’ll try to get into Conroy’s head. I should have more time since I finished a particularly hard chapter in math. XD

@jared-williams

Short answer, it’s the first draft, it genuinely does not matter! Keep going, you can trim it down later if you find it too long!

The longer answer, it is on the long side.

After finishing and letting it sit for a couple of months, you can consider a few things when you read it.

Check your causality. Especially in a battle, A…[Read more]

Oh gosh, I’ve sorely neglected this castle 😭😭 I’ll see if I can convince my brats to do something soon!

@jared-williams

It is a bit long for a battle but I totally understand your passion to make them epic. Battles scenes often become my favorite scenes when I can connect with the emotions and passion of the characters of what they are fighting for and why they must win. Once I connect and I read/hear their battle cries, it gives me the chills as I…[Read more]

Sherlock Holes (Real name is Sage Lore Longwei)
Personality quirks: serious, professional, perceptive, (can be annoying at time).
Description: (identical twin of Arsene Lupin) Black hair with white edges, right eye is gray and blue, while the other is gray and gold. Around 5’11 feet, somewhat slim.
Species: half dragon changeling, half woodland e…[Read more]

World: Mithril
Capital city: Aesgar
Description: a cluttered fantasy world, with both cities and woodland territory. For unknown reasons, there are two moons, which are always in the sky at the same time.
Races: elves (woodland and dark), humans, dragons, fey (probably will be more).

Then I might have a problem. It’s 62k WIP so far.

That being said, there are lots of twists, events, stratagems, and battle plot developments… The king gets involved with his army, and the enemy has air, fire, water, and earth elemental golems (as well as a giant golem that combines all four elements). He also has four cursed elementals at his…[Read more]

@erynne Howdy! Nice of ya to stop by.

So, it’s been a while since I drank – I quit a couple months ago, as alcohol was just making me depressed, less productive, and draining my wallet – I had stopped drinking for fun, and had by that point just been drinking as a crutch for mental pain. But that’s its own story.

I cannot say I’ve been black out…[Read more]

@jared-williams

The answer to that highly depends on how long your book is. If it’s a 90k word novel, than a battle that long would might seem gratuitous and drawn-out. If it’s a 200k+ word novel, it would be much more appropriate.

The next determining factor for me as the reader of said battle would be how many important events and PoV’s are…[Read more]

Oops. forgot

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@emily-waldorf

@rose-colored-fancy

@irishcelticredflowercrown

@inkhorn

Good Friday: Happy Easter castle version 2.0.    =)

(there are legends in my world of Kaphar that our world came from another – from a bet/challenge (wrong word, but, think Job…) between the Maker (God) and the evil one. So even though it is a fantasy world, there are legends of this original world, called Maaterra (or literal translated as m…[Read more]

Pia raised an eyebrow at him, “What?”

“WHAT?” Finn gasped. “You, you, what?”

Julian rolled over having been awake for a while but not saying anything, “happens to the best of us,” he said to Finn.

Ellie was trying to hide a giggle and Lacey was doing her best not to doze off again.

*Stumbles in wondering if this thread was still being used for its original purpose*

*Decides it is*

Um, hi… I was, sorta wondering if anyone knows what it feels like being, uh, drunk? 😂

I need to know for one of the novels I’m working on, but it’s not something I want to look up or ask my family, lol

But if the dagger is coated in poo, then…

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@skylarynn

So, you’re probably aware of this, being stabbed in the back is not healthy. The torso in general doesn’t have a lot of “good” places where the injury would not be too severe or long lasting. It may be counter intuitive, but the best place would be on the victim’s right side and upper back, piercing the lung. Particularly since you…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

I’ll try not to repeat from our fellow contributors. Adrenaline is a massive component of pain sensation in severe injuries – people have taken dozens of rounds from handguns and not dropped till minutes later or until a fatal shot completely put them out of commission, and soldiers have sometimes fought on with missing…[Read more]

@the-inkspiller

So glad to see you again!  And thanks for your answer.

Another question: if someone were stabbed in the back with a stiletto [dagger], where would the best place be for the stab to be survivable and how long would recovery be?

Thanks!