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Congrats! Finishing a draft is always exciting. I am quite impressed with how fast you turned out 40k words. (If only I wrote as fast... Le sigh.) Hahaha. Super happy for you!

Hello , I think that the 3rd and 4th drafts posted here work much better for me. To be honest I read about two paragraphs of the original post and then gave up on the rest. Previously, it felt as if the goal of the excerpt was to use beautiful language rather than tell a great story. (That is a...

Personally, in this particular case, I would sacrifice accuracy for clarity. I feel that the term "DaVinci Punk" is more easily understood/recognized by the common person than the term "Leonardo Punk". DaVinci Punk could (if need be) stand on its own with no further definition. You could be...

Dreams of the Flesh No one fantasizes within Dreamscape; no one can. Yet, I see your smile. I feel your fingertips, even now, a year after your descent into Limbo. "Deviations threaten Dreamscape!" I am sentenced to Waking. The Executioner wonders why I am unafraid. "His body is there," I...

The following titles from my 'read and loved' pile should/could fit the bill: Eric Nylund's 'Mortals Coils series' Jennifer Fallon's 'Tide Lord Quartet' Holly Lisle's 'World Gates Trilogy' And MAYBE Eddings' 'Belgariad/Malloreon/2 Prequels' (but be warned, those books are the...

Re: Discussion September 2011 Writing Challenge Thanks Nixie!

Re: Discussion September 2011 Writing Challenge After much deliberation, I have posted my entry. After voting ill post my two alternative options to see how they compare/dont compare.

Re: Discussion September 2011 Writing Challenge Ditto! Normally, Perp's reviews clear away the fog for me. However, I guess that is only if I was stuck between two interpretations to begin with or if one element was throwing me for a loop. This month I'm lost...

Re: Discussion September 2011 Writing Challenge When did we stop administering 'SLAPS'? (Looks around) Yoohoo...Nixie...?

Re: Discussion September 2011 Writing Challenge Up to three choices. I'm liking my latest story a bit more.

Re: Discussion September 2011 Writing Challenge There seems to be an abundance of stories that went right over ny head this month. Also, I struggled for inspiration this month. Currently, I have two stories; Two bland stories. I'll most likely post one, just cause I'm aiming for 12 out of 12...

Hello All, Quick question: where do more neutral tags that are still not "said" fall under this ruling? IE- asked, answered, started etc.

Thanks TheJudge! That bit of direction/correction was actually very much needed. I wasn't quite sure in that kind of usage.

Now that I think about it, I don't actually use dialog tags in most cases. I tend to begin/state a phrase, interject an action and the finish the phrase or move on to the other characters response. Kinda like: "Hey you!". The old man waved his fists in the air. "Get gone!" "Just dropping your...

Hahahah! I was kind of thinking along the same lines. I feel that sci-fi readers, while we my enjoy our orphan/farm kid/nerd/underdog destined to save the world stories, we at least expect you to dress it up and make an attempt to hide it in an interesting world/magic system/ original fantasy...

Apparently romance is a very inspirational subject/genre. You think that's a co-incidence?

Mstrtal- A Telenovela is a Spanish language soap opera. Malloriel- I agree completely about counting books before their (hatched?) written. Even after recounting the ideas I have lined up across ALL genres that interest me and finding the number rise to about 20, I still couldnt see those...

Hello all... I just wanted o drop in and mention something I've recently read online. While wasting away the minutes waiting for my bus on google, I came across the name Corín Tellado. Apparently, Ms. Tellado has written and sold 4,000 novels! She's even made it into the Guinness Book. The...

Thanks TheJudge. I'm gonna give Google another shot. But I think I may have have to steal your method and make serveral family trees and maybe use little symbols to direct/link to other relevant family trees. Problem is I have one woman who has mothered a new race. (Think of the biblical Israel...

Hmmm... I have noticed that a lot of formally non-fantasy readers are transitioning into the sci-fi/fantasy genres THANKS to vampire and werewolf romantic fantasy. I don't personally care overly much for vampires or werewolves, or really romance in general, but I don't have a problem with them...