Lightningmouse

Nope, the whole scene there was supposed to connect to something, but I didn’t post that part.  I don’t really do scenes like that for no reasons.

@xonos-darkgrate  *shudders*  I don’t think it was too dark.  And it’s very well-written!

@mariposa  Yes…but very ill indeed.  🙂

@dekreel  EEEEEEEKKKKK!!!!!!  Just yes.  I think this calls for a party.  Cake’s on me.

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I put some thought into it, and I came to this conclusion:

Darkness and things like that, (that’s not over-the-top-described), are acceptable in a story IF it is clearly portrayed the Darkness and the Light.  Basically, writing for God or something like that?

The theme of The Hole In the Brick wall is superheroes, but the moral is sort of the q…[Read more]

“In time, you will know what it is like to lose.  To feel so desperately that you are right and fail all the same.”

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“Fun isn’t something one considers when balancing the universe, but this” *chuckle* “does put a smile on my face.”

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“I was designed… to save the world.  People would look up to the skies and see… hope. I’ll take that f…[Read more]

@xonos-darkgrate

Hey!
So I haven’t read the thing, because I’m a bit of a ‘link-a-phobe’ (not you, just the internet), but my main thoughts are dark themes and darkness in literature in general is that if you’re not comfortable showing it to someone close to you, like your mom or dad or brother or sister or best friend, then it may have gone to…[Read more]

Awesome topic! We have something just like it on another forums I go to! 😀

Anyways, I don’t really have time to read through everything, but I hope you don’t mind if I join right in.

Is it okay if we quote famous people too? Or is this just movies and TV?  Either way, I’ve got a lot of awesome quote from my favorite characters. Mostly…[Read more]

I think that Camille, Raphael, and Kenneth are the best.  I mean, it just makes sense in my mind that robots posing to be normal people would have less conspicuous names.  Not that they aren’t good or anything, I think that the other options are great, but I don’t think that they fit the hiding robots well.

Hey, guys.  Here’s another question.  It’s not the same thing, but to reduce spam and unnecessary posts (which the other forums I’m a part of is very big on), I’ll just keep it here.

Anyways, I know that it’s fine to add darker elements to stories to make them more realistic. (not cursing though, 😉 ), but what, exactly, would be the limit or t…[Read more]

@leumeister  My votes are Celeste, Raphael, and Tristan.  🙂

@catwing

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Well, @dekreel and @perfectfifths stole my thunder.  But I did know it!   🙂

@dragon-snapper  *trips into the room*  W-what they said…

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@amy-l-klob I’d recommend starting by introducing your protagonist, but I would be careful about having a slow lead-in to the actual story. You want to grab the audience’s attention in the first page. That doesn’t mean you need to immediately leap into the main plot of your novel, but you should be including some conflict and/or intrigue that…[Read more]

Thanks for the input guys! 😀

@kate-flournoy @daeus I tagged Kate because I knew she wrote fantasy…I just didn’t stop to consider how long the fantasy was. 😉 My mistake. Haha.

Tagses!

@daeus @kate-flournoy (Am I allowed to ask you on this one? 😉 ) @sam-kowal @shannon @emily @daughteroftheking @supermonkey42 @ingridrd @andeverone else

@dekreel  Praying hard.  ❤️

@sam-kowal Yeah, Dalinar’s character arc was amazing. Didn’t think Sanderson could top Kaladin’s in WoR, but he pretty much matched it. Yeah, Adolin seemed to get away with that, and I was also looking for some closure on the moral questions being raised regarding the morality of war. I suspect, though, that Sanderson at least plans on continuing…[Read more]

For a first time author, avoid going over 120k; 130k max if you absolutely have to. Once you become published, you can push the limit more (I just finished a 450k fantasy work that topped the NY bestselling list), but publishers aren’t willing to risk those sorts of word counts for unpublished authors.