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: How do I make my plot more interesting? This is gonna be long before I ask the question itself. Here is a quick overview of my plot: In the fictional world named Slavaz, there is a great
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: Who Are Some Literary Agents That Accept Christian Fantasy Novels? I have about four thoroughly reviewed novels that are technically Christian fantasy novels. I am looking for an agent, a literary
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: How to maximize reader comprehension if worldbuilding is complicated? Parts of my worldbuilding are critical to the plot. If readers don't understand the world, they won't understand the stakes
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: How do I make my supporting POV interesting, altough he is not important in the story? I have one POV character who is not too important to the story. He is an Elf soldier who keeps a important
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: Something's missing I have a former military officer from a powerful empire searching to put a stop to the evil plan of a group of dark elves. They are trafficking people to their homeland
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: Why would a someone desecrate a pharaoh's tomb? I'm trying to find a believable reason for someone to open a clearly cursed tomb for my short story. I'm finding myself between the silly-but-different
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: Would this be considered fantasy? I am wanting to write a short story in the fantasy genre maybe genre blending. but I'm not sure if my idea is still considered fantasy. an example of what
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: In modern Sci-Fi/Fantasy, does real world racism need to be addressed? I have read through a lot of questions regarding questions of a similar nature, but all of the questions I looked at involved
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: How do I decide what is the best POV for my fantasy novel? How to go about determining what is the best POV to use for my fantasy novel?
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: Evil plans - how do you come up with interesting ones? I just wrote a long way into a first draft for Nanowrimo before realizing my villain’s evil plan kinda wasn’t interesting at best
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: Is my writing original if it is a hybrid of Tolkien and Rowling? I am planning to write a fantasy book which incorporates the styles of LotR and Harry Potter. The setting is a Middle Earth-like
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: How to implement a fictional language in my novel? As a writer, I used to write short stories and poems. As a reader, fantasy is my favorite genre. I created some what of a language for
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: Using elemental control to aid in daily life? My sister is writing a book which incorporates elemental "magic" or control. Each person can use one of the four elements. We want to ensure that
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: The concept of "Exotic Culture" and the necessity of a new world A personal point of view on the necessity of a new culture in fiction "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away",
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: Does my protagonist need to be the most important character? In my fantasy story that I'm slowly getting into, my MC Sirena is an apprentice witch. Her two fellow apprentices, Aster and Keeva,
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: Maintaining distance I am working on a novel inspired by the Shahnameh - a Persian epic poem by Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi. The Shahnameh (the title means "The Book of Kings") is structured as a
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: How to convey the anatomy of a humanoid race? I am writing a extra-terrestrial high fantasy novel. The story is completely set in an alien world. No visits from Earth and no visits to
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: How do I introduce dark themes? My story involves a superhuman organization that aims to overthrow the main government, through any means necessary. This involves murder and some rather gruesome
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: What are the advantages and disavantages of different triggers for character transformation? I'm writing a story where my lead character has two forms and he swaps between them frequently. I'd
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: How can I portray a character with no fear of death, without them sounding utterly bored? Imagine a fantasy hero with a 'time reset' ability like the protagonists of Groundhog Day or Edge of
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: Should I use the words "pyromancy" and "necromancy" even if they don't mean what people think they do? If you look up the exact definition for "pyromancy" or "necromancy" they refer to divination
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: Avoiding racist tropes in fantasy I'm interested in starting a pleasure project: a fantasy story, along the lines of a witch delivering a prophecy to a king about a dangerous and deceitful foe
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: What kind of name should a fantasy author go by? I'm currently in the middle of writing several fantasy books and, even though I'm not done with any of them, I can't stop thinking about how
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: Why do most authors shed their LitRPG elements as the stories go? Is it a genre convention? In almost all the LitRPG stories I read, the start of the stories is full of system messages, +1
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: Modernized dialogue in fantasy - stylistically untrue or clever genre subversion? I find myself using words like "kiddo", "bullshit" and "badass" in the more comedic side of dialogue/thoughts in
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: Illustrating time differences between "then" and "now" in flashbacks I am writing a medieval fantasy story, in which MC has suffered some serious injuries and has lost most of his memories leading
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: Magic is the twist It feels silly to say, but I've got myself into a bit of a bind of a side project. In a three-act structure (not what everyone uses, but a good reference point) you generally
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: Trivial non-dark twist in dark fantasy I am writing a rather dark, grey fantasy story. It is supposed to feature a twist that turns the antagonist's goal to not to be evil at all (just misjudged)
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: Is my Fantasy YA series idea interesting and unique? For a while now I’ve had an idea for a YA series brewing in my mind. The series takes place in an urban setting much like our world
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: Is it bad to suddenly introduce another element to your fantasy world a good ways into the story? I'm writing a novel with many POVs, and this is a very flexible story. It started out with
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: How do I tell the reader that my character is autistic in Fantasy? I am a woman with aspergers and writing an autistic character has always been close to my heart. Fiera Allas, a fantasy
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: How can I convince my reader that I will not use a certain trope? Imagine a fantasy story in which there once was a very powerful evil divine being, but it was defeated long before the beginning
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: How to make enemy of mc to fall in love with him? My mc poses some strange shadow powers which he tries to hide and in one quest he met his enemy who also has these powers. They both
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: How can I bring back a dead main character without cliches? So I have a main character who will die at the end of the first book. In the next book he will be alive, but nobody knows
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: How to trick the reader into thinking they're following a redshirt instead of the protagonist? I'm currently planning a "magical girl" story, and I thought of an interesting way to start it,
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: Writing the dialogue of two travelers who dislike each other I'm currently writing a journey-focused plot arc, and I'm struggling a bit with the character interactions. To give you some background,
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: How do I write real-world stories separate from my country of origin? I live in India. And the stories I write don't want to. The thing is, as you all might already know, my country has
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: Would using Real alphabets on fantasy maps/emblems make any sense? I'm trying to make flags for all my fictional countries. On some of these flags, it makes a great deal of sense to use a
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: Changing titles, same story different angle I have written a piece stemming from an idea about a particular process that leads to the attainment of magical abilities. The working title was written
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: What are some good historical sources for writing medieval battles? This question popped into my mind after criticizing the strategic choices in a recent episode of a famous fantasy television
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