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@xonos-darkgrate Welcome back! It’s pretty quiet around here now, but we still hang out and answer questions anyone has.
You know you are a writer when you hunt down one of your dad’s World of Warcraft characters, and force him to sit down and stand up a bunch of times so you can describe it for your Minotaur character.
You know you are a writer when, when you physically feel “a spike of worry” in your chest, and think “Wait, I physically felt that.” and then deliberately hype yourself up so that you can describe physically feeling worry.
@alia That sounds so great! I would totally read that! I’ll see if I can think of any more.
@alia *cracks knuckles* My time has come! Was there a particular genre you wanted? I do fantasy, so here are a bunch of fantasy ones.
MC being the Chosen One
Being an orphan
Having strange, unexpected powers previously unaware of
A whole society the MC didn’t know about living right under noses
“Good” elves and dwarfs, “evil” orcs, goblins, trolls.
MC being surprisingly good at sword fighting, magic, despite never being taught.
Strong Female Character
Mentor dying
Villain being parent@dekreel Anna’s face in the middle, methinks. This was so much better in my head…
@sarah-anson I made some comments (I am Amy, btw). I really liked it. I thought the world building was really good, and I liked some of the tradition and culture you mentioned.
@sarah-anson I might be able to read it later today. I’m hoping to be an editor when I graduate so this will be good practice. Is there anything in particular you want me look for?
@seekjustice Thank you! Ooo, paper cranes are cool
@sarah-anson *high fives* *dodges thrown cake* Thank you! How did you manage to get hot chocolate from Smaug without dying? That’s impressive.
@gh24682468999 Thank you. I was a bit concerned actually because if I had to describe my book in once sentence it would go something like “girl gets transported to strange world before joining resistance against evil dictator” and that is pretty cliche. Hard to avoid stuff like that I guess.Thank you! Here is a synopsis I wrote a while ago.
Aliyah Locke has never liked the stories where the main character is suddenly thrust into another universe. Seriously, those characters act like they’ve never read a book before. But when a gift a friend gave her leads her to a strange new world, Aliyah is the first to admit she is not equipped for an adventure. She just wants to go home without dooming the inhabitants of the nation to destruction.
But when an unexpected betrayal leaves Aliyah stunned, and the only one who can save the kingdom, she has to decide just how much she is willing to fight, and how much she will sacrifice, for a world and a people that is not her own. Because the Short One wants what she has, and he is willing to do anything to get it.
I’m reading The Floating Island by Elizabeth Haydon. Spoilers ahead *wiggles fingers in warning*
Why I liked it:
1) I think the MC, Ven, was proactive and resourceful. I liked him.
2) At one point Ven was framed, thrown in jail, and told that the king would either execute him or let him rot in jail for the rest of his life, but surprise, the king is actually the bestiest, and can tell he was framed, and also offered Ven a job.
3) Ven is a Nain, which is a race that are secretly dwarfs. It never says they are dwarfs, but Ven is 50 years old, but looks and acts like a young boy. He is tall for his race, but is about the height of a young human. Great empathize is placed on a Nain having a beard, and Nains are known to be great diggers, and live far underground. I like this mostly because I feel clever for putting all the clues together.
Parts I didn’t like:
1) I never felt like the stakes were very high. Even in a matter of life and death, I knew the person wasn’t going to die.
2) There is a prologue explaining that the Lost Journals of Ven had been recently rediscovered, and this is a book recounting his adventures, with authentic journal excerpts put in. At the beginning of the first chapter, the font is in this handwriting script font. It wasn’t hard to read, but I didn’t really like it. If the whole book had been written like that, I would’ve stopped reading. As it was, most of the book was written in third person and normal font, an occasionally a paragraph or two would be first person with handwriting font representing parts of the “original journal” I really didn’t like that, I mostly just skipped over those paragraphs altogether.
@jenwriter17 @seekjustice @daughteroftheking @kaya-young @catwing @dekreel
I am ready to begin now! I actually finished the book I was planning on reading already, so I’m ready! (I’m a really fast reader.)
This post might show up twice too. Those computer gnomes…
@jenwriter17 @catwing @seekjustice I vote for fantasy too! And, like everyone else, it definitely isn’t because I have a fantasy book to read already.
@daughteroftheking You are reading Ranger’s Apprentice!! Which one?@jenwriter17 @catwing @seekjustice  I vote for fantasy too! And yes, just like everyone else, it isn’t because I already have a fantasy book ready to read. I would be okay with historical too, but it might end up being fantasy anyways, because practically all the books in the YA historical section at my library is about affairs, which I won’t read, spies, which I won’t read, or secretly a fantasy book set in historical time period but with magic.
@daughteroftheking You’re reading Ranger’s Apprentice!! Which one?@seekjustice @jenwriter17 Me too! I love talking about books.