@taylorclogston
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic How Do You Write Characters That Are Completely Different From Each Other? in the forum Characters 1 week, 6 days ago
I’m not entirely sure what the scope of the question is. Can you give a few more details about what you foresee as being the hardest aspects of writing them?
When you have characters who might not get along well on their own (and who you need to work together), it’s important to give them shared values and objectives. Highlight not only the…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Villain appearances, a discussion in the forum Characters 2 weeks, 6 days ago
@rose-colored-fancy Both “evil on the outside, evil on the inside” villains (your Darth Vaders and Witch Kings) and “pristine on the outside, evil on the outside” villains (your suave serial killer in a spotless suit, your red-lipped, voluptuous, evil queen) are tropes I’m pretty tired of in fantasy. It’s entirely possible to design…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Favorite Titles? in the forum General Writing Discussions 1 month ago
@imwritehere1920 More or less! You start out at 10th rank and then work up to 1st rank, then begin the black belt progression which unintuitively begins at 1st rank and moves upward from there. You have to demonstrate proficiency with a different set of martial arts skills and meet a standard of maturity to move to the next rank. I took karate for…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Favorite Titles? in the forum General Writing Discussions 1 month ago
@devastate-lasting Gotcha, I didn’t realize that was Erased. I’m afraid I’m not a fan of time travel stories. An old roommate was telling me about Erased when the show was airing and between the premise not grabbing me and him saying the ending was mediocre, I never had interest in watching it. Is the manga better than the anime?
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Favorite Titles? in the forum General Writing Discussions 1 month ago
@devastate-lasting I really like those choices! I love the drawn-out nature of a lot of those original Japanese titles. The Town Where Only I Am Missing is probably my favorite on that list. I also really like your I Hid Beneath My Umbrella So the Adults Wouldn’t See Me Cry.
@rose-colored-fancy I like The Rooftoppers title!
@seekjustice Howl’s Mo…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston started the topic Favorite Titles? in the forum General Writing Discussions 1 month ago
What are some of your favorite titles? They can be those of any piece of media, not just books!
I think my absolute favorite title of all time is The Promised Neverland, which was a decent show (and originally a comic) that I don’t think needed a second season.
After that, in no particular order:
- Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of…
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Blogging suggestions ? in the forum Publishing and Marketing Nerds 1 month ago
@emma-walker A blog runs through a program called Content Management Software (CMS). CMS has to run on some computer somewhere for a user to access the posts created with it. This computer is called a “server,” because it serves up its files to people who ask for them by typing in the right address.
Any computer can be a server if it’s set up the…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Character voice questionnaire in the forum Characters 1 month ago
This is a great questionnaire, thanks for sharing!
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Beta readers for short story? in the forum General Writing Discussions 1 month, 1 week ago
I’m interested! You know where to find me ;P
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Keeping it real vs. Too good to be true… Balance? in the forum Writers of Children's/Middle Grade Books 1 month, 2 weeks ago
@sesi Perfection vs imperfection is hard to balance in books for kids, yeah. I haven’t read the Penderwicks books, but even in the Look Inside for the first book I get a bit of what you’re saying. Rosalind does seem weirdly glorified as a responsible leader even to her parents in just those opening lines.
In general, it sounds to me like you…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston joined the group Writers of Children’s/Middle-Grade Books 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic I Published a Short Story! in the forum General Writing Discussions 1 month, 2 weeks ago
@joelle-stone Sorry for the delay, but thank you! (and thank you too, Daeus! Sorry for the even longer delay)
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Christian God Figure & Deus ex Machina in the forum Fantasy Writers 2 months ago
Would you say that God intervened in a Deus ex Machina way in WWI or WWII?
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Looking for Beta Readers in the forum General Writing Discussions 2 months, 1 week ago
@zee I’m really sorry, but romance is the only genre I don’t read =P I wish you luck getting readers. The premise sounds interesting.
The one thing that stood out to me is I was under the impression the YA demographic ranges from about 13-18. Has that changed in recent years?
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic God(s) in Fantasy in the forum Fantasy Writers 2 months, 1 week ago
@sparrowhawke I don’t think it’s inherently bad. I have no doubt someone could make it work as well as any other mythological model. But I’d be wary as a reader if I picked up a book (specifically one by someone claiming to be a Christian author) and saw this as the mythology, though, because I’d assume it was trying to subversively push a…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic God(s) in Fantasy in the forum Fantasy Writers 2 months, 1 week ago
@sparrowhawke Interesting thread!
My thoughts on your two options:
- This sounds like the heresy of Ashera as a mother-goddess consort to Yahweh.
- If your conscience bothers you, don’t do it. In any event, writing a story with fall, sin, savior probably makes it Christian fiction in and of itself =P
How well do you know the theology of Lewis…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston started the topic I Published a Martial Arts Fantasy Novella in the forum Fantasy Writers 2 months, 2 weeks ago
“From the Plane of Steel I call you forth!”
On the day Prince Kurou is to become engaged to the princess of a neighboring city, the bandit lord known as Callicles the Hyena invades the town called White Pepper.
Kurou and the street boy Olivier find themselves unlikely comrades plunged into a world of martial artists, ancient magic, and Lone…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston started the topic Heads Up: Google Docs Comment History Size in the forum General Writing Discussions 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Hey all! I just found a quirk in Google Docs and, since I could find hardly anything else about it online, wanted to share.
I’m in the middle of a line edit for a friend’s manuscript, and as of last night, the total number of comments in the document’s comment history (including all previously resolved comments) hit about 5100. When she tried to…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic New book blurb – thoughts? in the forum Fantasy Writers 3 months, 4 weeks ago
@daeus-lamb Having read a previous draft, this sounds like a blurb for the second or third book in the series, not what I read. Unless you’ve changed the book in character, tone, and content to be at least three or four times more Mistborn-ish, I don’t see this actually describing the story.
As far as its job selling the reader, I find it pretty…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston started the topic I Published a Short Story! in the forum General Writing Discussions 3 months, 4 weeks ago
I finally published the short story I started writing in response to my initial frustration with COVID around nine months ago! It’s about two guys in a fictional post-Soviet state creating the ballot for their country’s first-ever election.
If you’d do me the honor of checking it out, you can read it here:…[Read more]
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