06-06-2007, 11:39 PM | #261 |
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I actually haven't been writing that much lately, but I started on a new book. So now I'm working on 2 books at the same time. Don't know if that's the best idea, but I didn't want to forget the ideas that I had for the other book, so whatever.
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06-08-2007, 01:06 PM | #263 | |
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Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan) |
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I love character vs. character confrontations. I'm trying to minimize as much as possible all clashes between characters and "troops". "Troops" die easily and often pretty meaninglessly. Character vs. character clashes always seem far more significant. Quote:
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Characters vs. troops are good for filler, but they really don't mean anything. Although an interesting thought: create an "NPC", if you will, that's one of the troops. I did that for one of my books. It helps to lend perspective to the conflict, I've found. I basically devoted parts of the book (short parts) to one soldier who went with the army, attacked the frontlines, and got killed.
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Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan) |
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I've been plodding along in my book. I really need to wrap it up. On the upside, though, I've got the end in sight. Fates have been determined, and all that's left is to write, and see just how exactly everything is going to turn out.
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Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan) |
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Keep it fast-paced if you can. Keep the events occurring that you most want to write and care about seeing. Speed of pace is very important, I think. It's cool that you have the climax coming up . Those are so fun to write. I think you'll be in for a blast .
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06-22-2007, 11:17 AM | #269 | |
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07-09-2007, 12:35 PM | #271 |
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The best advice I can give is: don't rush things.
Take your time and give life to the surroundings in the book, but make sure you leave something for the reader to make up in his/her own head. Too detailed descriptions will make the reader dizzy; too little descriptions will make the reader lost. Basically, explain basic details so the reader is able to imagine the rest. Last edited by Peter_20 : 07-09-2007 at 12:36 PM. |
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07-09-2007, 04:58 PM | #273 |
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I'm already on chapter 3 of my most recent book. I planned to get to at least chapter 5 on this book by the end of the summer, and I'm pretty confident that I can do it. It's sort of a mystery/comedy. It's working out quite nicely, actually. I've actually been able to come up with quite a bit of non-lame comedy. I'm pretty much only working on this book for now, because I've just been able to come up with so many things for it.
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07-10-2007, 11:25 AM | #275 |
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I just finished typing Book one of my own fantasy trilogy. Typing up book 2. Writing book three. I might go back and add to them. Who knows
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Congrats on the book finishing, Lief and Acally! I actually have to go and type my books up on the computer. I usually edit as I type.
Regarding the magic system, I really won't have to revamp all that much. Most "magic" has only been glimpsed, with no real looks into how it really works. So...what's on the outside will mostly stay the same, and it'll just be what's on the inside that gets revamped.
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I'm curious as to what your book is like . Are you planning to try to publish it eventually, or is it just for your own pleasure and practice?
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07-11-2007, 08:17 PM | #279 |
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Most of my books (at least, the fantasy ones) are fully intended for publication. I'm actually working on writing a huge amount of books, at least twenty or so, that flesh out and cover the history of my world. It should be interesting. I don't know many of the details, but the big stuff could be really, really cool.
The book I just finished (the one that's part 1 of a trilogy) doesn't have much of the magic system in it, but there's going to be others with a LOT of the magic system. For instance, I'm planning a book that tells the story of how a major evil wizard started up a school to train future evil wizards, and on the effects of that.
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I want to publish!!! I'm very ambitious about that. How many books to your world's history have you finished so far? And you said you're working on writing about twenty? Does that mean that you have their plotlines done and the ideas set up, or are you actually currently in the process of writing twenty simultaneously? That would be quite a job. I can't imagine trying to do that. I can't even write two simultaneously with any ease at all. If I have two going, I always revert to one until it's finished and leave the other on the backburner. Quote:
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