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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic SciFi Beta Trading in the forum Sci-fi Writers 4 years, 7 months ago
@this-is-not-an-alien Hi Cathy, thank you for the interest! I’d be grateful for your siblings’ insight as well as your own, if you could harass them a little on my behalf =P
I’ll definitely take you up on that offer. I’d be happy to beta for your project in return. You can send that along with whatever beta questions you have to itaylorclogston…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston started the topic SciFi Beta Trading in the forum Sci-fi Writers 4 years, 7 months ago
I should have a beta-ready draft of Encapsulation ready in two to three weeks. It’s a SciFi story with New Weird elements about a dude sent to a labor camp to excavate the remnants of a cataclysmic technological event. It’ll be between 50K and 60K words. I’m looking for big-picture, character, and internal consistency feedback. My only real…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Intertextuality and Disney in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 7 months ago
@josiah I wrote a response here that seems to have been swallowed by the void. By any chance did the spam filter pick it up?
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Taylor Clogston started the topic Intertextuality and Disney in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 7 months ago
I wrote a short Medium article which you can read at this link or below, though only the Medium version has links to the videos mentioned because otherwise the SE spam filter will eat me alive.
On January 9, 2020, the YouTube channel Nerdstalgic released a video called The Problem With Disney’s Movies In One Word.
“You might have noticed some…
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic NaNoWriMo 2021 in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 7 months ago
Sorry for the lack of updates, everyone! I’m writing in so many other groups that I completely forgot to update here.
I’m up to 7681 words, which is really not great considering that puts me at about 12 WPM. As this is a rewrite of something I rapidly drafted, I’m spending most of my time researching and worldbuilding. Today I wrote a…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Prayer Support Thread in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 7 months ago
Thank you, Josiah! Great idea.
I commit to pray regularly and responsibly about my writing over the next four weeks, hopefully to build a better habit than my current one.
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic NaNoWriMo 2021 in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 7 months ago
Happy NaNo, everyone :-} Morning writing done. 2107 words in two hours and fifteen minutes.
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic NaNoWriMo 2021 in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 7 months ago
(forgot to mention, but you can add me as a NaNo buddy as taylorclogston)
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic NaNoWriMo 2021 in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 7 months ago
I’ll be updating my word counts here! I’m finishing my rewrite of my New Weird novel Encapsulation, then starting the second draft of the second book in my Wuxia-ish story, Valley of One Hundred Bridges.
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Fantasy Is NOT the Same Thing As Magic in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 7 months ago
Come on man. xD The audience and what they think don’t matter, God is our ultimate audience, and what He thinks is what matters.
This is going to be the point after which I have to bow out. To say God has a problem with the English word “magic,” a word which necessarily does not exist in a book which was not written in English, s…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Fantasy Is NOT the Same Thing As Magic in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 7 months ago
“When people hear the word magic, they either think of fluffy unicorns and fairy dust, or sorcery.”
That’ll depend strongly on your audience. People raised to think the word “magic” means “witchcraft” will think in the way you described. Most other people will think of video games where you throw a fireball at a dude,…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Fantasy Is NOT the Same Thing As Magic in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 8 months ago
My friend, at some point you need to actually read a text before you can reasonably comment on it. I want to talk about several things that you’re not understanding based on wiki readings, but it would do no good because you haven’t read the text yourself. You owe it to yourself not to let other people make your opinions for you!
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Taylor Clogston commented on the post, 17 Ways to Approach Your Story from a Fresh Angle 4 years, 8 months ago
Great article, Daeus! I especially appreciate the advice to try different approaches to figure out which ones work best for you. The fact that almost every point is supported by an SE article is great.
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Fantasy Is NOT the Same Thing As Magic in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 8 months ago
Seeing your thoughts more throughout this thread, I’m curious as to why making a natural ability “ritualistic” would turn it from okay to not okay, and how much you consider individual intent vs objective reality to matter in a “magic” system.
Sanderson’s systems are on a spectrum of natural and supernatural that you can’t really…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Creating Variety in Stories in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 8 months ago
I’ve struggled with this for a looong time. These have helped me:
- Step outside your comfort zone regarding what stories you consume. I used to read books that had a very narrow set of fantasy tropes, so my stories all felt like a rehash of the same stuff. When I started reading books I didn’t think I’d like at the recommendation…
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Why Do You Love YA? in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 8 months ago
This is a really good question and I don’t have a good answer. I don’t really understand YA at the moment, and I don’t know if my impressions of the genre over the past ten years are valid any more.
It’s really common to think of the Stormlight Archives as YA, for example, something I don’t think anyone would have done back when…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Fantasy Is NOT the Same Thing As Magic in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 8 months ago
(gah, I wrote an initial post and then a server error had the site down some time before I tried to post)
@noah-cochran I’m a linguistic descriptivist more than a prescriptivist, so I don’t believe it’s right to demand almost everyone else accede to your wishes of how a word’s used in the context of the fantasy genre. All the power to you if you…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Conflict and the End of Fiction in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 8 months ago
You don’t think conflict would it improve it, and yet you haven’t read a good story without it? Kinda talking out of both sides of one’s mouth with those statements. xD
You’re case studies were fine and valid, but I would argue that even they had an element of conflict. Maybe I’ll read one in its entirety to find out sometime. 🙂…
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Showing Internal Conflict in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 8 months ago
Unfortunately, the things I planned to recommend are already things you’re trying =P
What I’ve realized getting alpha feedback for my WIP is even skilled readers and writers can be utterly insane and have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to alpha and beta reading.
I’ve had a reader tell me a certain scene needed heavy rework,…[Read more]
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Taylor Clogston replied to the topic Looking for Fantasy/Sci-fi Recommendations in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 8 months ago
Have you read any of Brandon Sanderson’s books? He really checks all those boxes. He has several series and standalones that take place in the same universe, all leading into his Stormlight Archives series. I recommend starting with Mistborn: The Final Empire.
Have you read many Star Wars books? The old Thrawn books (not the new canon ones) by…[Read more]
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