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I don't know how you write, but for me description is one of the things that is most telling about how well a person can write. Because if it's done well, pages and pages of description can be...
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Well people will either like descriptions of things, or not read my books. XD If I had to strip down my language to the nuts and bolts of A did this then B did this it would bore me to tears. I'm only...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_style I'm sorry for just giving you a link but it's hard to explain. Al I know is sometimes I'm reading fantasy and I'm like "This is an awesome story, but the...
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Can you list them? I'm sorry I'm just confused, is it like genre or something? Like can you a dark one or a light one or one that ... is it like clothes? All I really know is that I write like me, and...
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Well, yes of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm talking about writing style.
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I agree, you shouldn't really tell you should more show so that the person reading it can put themselves inside the story. That's how I think of it anyway, it's my job to paint the plot, only instead...
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I want the writing to be immediate and compelling. There are a lot of fantasy novels that simply tell the story, and they might be great stories, but that's all they are. The writing just doesn't seem...
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Ranty opinion time here. Coherence. And no, I don't mean the worldbuilder's conceit of filling out a checklist with trivia like the ingredients of a stew or a thousand-year timeline. That's trivia. 1....
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I want witty and fast-paced narrative. Please don't go the route of Tolkien or Paolini and stop to describe every last tree and flower, twig and leaf. Unless those things are going to attack me, I...
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This reminds me of the song Razzle Dazzle in Chicago, though you're right however you can use that bit of flash as a plot device to lure characters into a false sense of security, because that's fun....
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I don't want to be condescended to. Specifically, I don't like the notion that "genre" of any type excuses mediocrity, either for writers or for readers. In my experience the best fantasy consistently...
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Some threads (to save you time in your search of the forum): newbies: http://nanowrimo.org/en/forums/fantasy/threads/101063 http://nanowrimo.org/en/forums/fantasy/threads/105876 tropes:...
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Subversion of tropes, or at least understanding of which ones make people want to throw the book down in anger, then careful avoidance. There's a thread for it....let me search. There's nothing really...
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I like characters that are compelling, and I don't like cope out endings. If a character has a lot of bad things happen to them they can be hopeful in the end but not everything is coming up roses,...
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I want the same thing from any book that I read. I want it to pull me in so thoroughly that I don't want to put the book down to do real life crap. However, I will go get my money back if the ending...
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I'm not sure if this has been done before, but, honestly, at the moment I can't be bothered searching through the forums :P Anyway, so I'm currenly writing a fantasy novel, and I'm curious as to what...
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[quote=flightyclouds] [quote=SPhoenix] I found the movie had a lot of things in that triggered very unhappy memories for me, but the worst was that ending, where she was abandoned by someone who had...
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[quote=SPhoenix] I found the movie had a lot of things in that triggered very unhappy memories for me, but the worst was that ending, where she was abandoned by someone who had broken down her barriers...
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