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If you want EDDINGS all over again, try Raymond Feists Riftwar saga. Feist paints similar archetypes as eddings canvas "crack cocaine of heroic fantasy" work, to quote. I really enjoyed the Riftwar saga and thought it a little more grainier than the "holier than thou" of eddings when i read...

I tried to google it for you but I admit to failure. Perhaps a few more details would help, specific keywords, names or locations taken in the book. I assume it's sci-fi from mention of the starship correct?

*****SPOILER TALK Anyone read it yet? LOVED it, up until halfway into to the book after the commonwealth get's attacked again. What a letdown. I was SURE the commonwealth would be destroyed and they'd have to flee to the far off reaches of the galaxy and rebuild their civilizations, and in...

Stark. Can I have my direwolf now?

I want to add my own voice to the disappointed masses. I am still a faithful fan yet Feast has confused me on what George is trying to do. The story moved very minimally from beginning to end and is a poor foreshadowing for Dragons to come. I know that some months have passed in the story...

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Re: Batman Begins! amazing movie. best batman by far; a great cast and a great story.

I commonly see many of the same writing mistakes repeat themselves from author to author. I'd like to start this thread in the interest of better storytelling so that authors who want to improve on their material may come here and glean perhaps a tip or two in their quest to entertain us...

I liked it. However, you are treading dangerously close to the "once upon a time" syndrome. If you're going to go that direction on purpose, then you should make it verifiably obvious that you're doing so. As a matter of course, starting your story off with "once upon a time" will key in a...

Re: Movies in Development Amazing. Have you guys read the Forge of God? In all the books I've read to date, the ending to the Forge of God had me in tears. Can't wait!

Wish I could join you. My family is up in LA. Let us non-goers know how things spoon out for you.

Not bad. My main problems are with the first couple paragraphs. Several of your phrases use standard catchisms to grab the readers attention, but they aren't working. "Central feednet" just sounds clunky. So does "pict array". And Hyperdrive has certainly been overused. I strongly urge you to do...

I had another amazing dream last night. Of course, I don't remember 95% percent of it. What I do remember of the dream was that there was some force of nature that persists in all the forests of the world. Has anyone ever seen the animae Princess Mononoke? It's a little similar to that. When...

I think the first batman was the best. Michael Keaton was very suave, cool. He fit the role. And the Kingdom of Heaven trailer looks good. I can't get over how crazy that person looks in the full, gilded mask. I just want to stare at it, like a pie in a bakery window. my pics: War of the...

i used to. i actually got my rhyme count from a shelly poem though. But yeah, I was probably being overly metaphorical when I wrote it. At the time, the forum critiqueing it had the title, very hardcore critiques. Needless to say, they were very ruthless and crushing with their responses. And...

knivesout- Personally, I get excited when I'm introduced to something new, a plausable, fantastic future for instance, based on realistic concepts. Real physics--real science. I'm sure most people have heard the term 'Worldbuilding' before. Well that's pretty much what most science fiction is...

Google's the only company that can rival (and does) the amazon client model. But they're not direct competitors (they aren't competing for the same market -they're products serve different purposes). Google leads by leaps and bounds Amazon, the way Amazon leads the rest of its competition as...

love defined: http://science.howstuffworks.com/love.htm wow, that's crazy.

it looks like an interesting read. more lifeboat monkey bananna!!! (does it matter the way I say it?)

I googled "SIPs amazon" and found a link that describes it well. Basically it's a phrase tracker that monitors phrases used "commonly in one book", and "infrequently" in others. It's basically for keeping track of phrase evolution. Ever wondered who coined "that" phrase? I think that's what...