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Recommended Reading Day 3

September 16th 2009 00:33
Today's recommended reading is actually two entries, two parts of one rant. It's an excellent rant useful for anyone writing their novel in a city, especially those who are creating the city for their story:

City Rant (Part The First)

City Rant (Part The Second)
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Recommended Reading Day 2

September 15th 2009 02:46
Today's recommended reading fantasy rant is Worldbuilding Through Layering. Enjoy!
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Recommended Reading: Limyaael's Rants

September 14th 2009 04:35
From now until October first, each day I'm going to recommend one of Limyaael's rants to read. These rants are food for thought when planning your novel, full of useful advice to bear in mind when planning and writing your Nanowrimo Novel.

Here's the first one:

On Making Non-Utopian Fantasy Worlds is a rant about making your world imperfect and believable.
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Rant: Building Religion

January 18th 2009 22:40
Building a structured religion and building the Gods which they follow are two different processes, though they are connected for obvious reasons. Here are some things you should look at when building religions using Gods you've already built.

What do these Gods stand for? Before you can describe how they are worshiped, you need to know what they stand for. If you don't keep what they stand for in mind at all times while building the religion, it's probably not going to make much sense


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Rant: Building Gods

January 11th 2009 11:48
If your book has a very important religious aspect, you need to carefully build up the mythology and the deities as characters almost. For my work on the Jihad series, I've been building up Loki for the last few days.

Loki is originally a Norse god of mischief. In Norse mythology he was often presented as evil, almost, with the pranks he would play on the other Gods; but in dire times of need he pulled through and saved the Gods. This happened on more than one occasion


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Worldbuilding

December 10th 2008 20:53
I write dark fantasy; and in fantasy there is usually quite a bit of extensive worldbuilding that is done in preparation for the book/series you're writing. This can at times be tedious-it can also be incredibly fun. The following things are some things to seriously look into when building your world:

Geography mapping it out is a very, very good idea; you need to know where people are going. If you're doing journey fantasy, you need to know where the people are journeying too. If your story takes place in a city, you're going to need the little details of the city, even if your character doesn't bring them up in terms of narration


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Writing Rants: Beginnings

December 9th 2008 18:56
Back onto my fantasy rants... shall be fun. (For me, at least.) I've been wandering Critique Circle of late (critiquecircle.com) and have read a couple first chapters of novels. This is what I've noticed that they've done wrong, and how to do it right. This one applies to all novels but is specifically focused on fantasy, because that's the genre I write and thus know the most about.

Exposition I read one first/second chapter story in which the very first sentence was great, as was the story idea. Unfortunately, there was quite a bit of exposition; it read slowly, all in overly detailed sentences and paragraphs. It drove me almost crazy, but I finished the crit and the chapters


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Gratuitous Sex/Violence Rant

August 31st 2008 07:59
I did say I'd get into this one eventually. And we all know how much I love gratuitous sex and violence... in fanfiction. This is purely personal opinion, as are all of my upcoming rants. Take my advice with a grain of salt. I'm not the best writer out there, I'm not a genius, I'm not very accomplished in the writing world as of yet. But here goes nothing...

What Qualifies As Gratuitous? If you're writing it because you want to, not because it advances the plot, it's gratuitous. It does not need to be in the story (and sometimes whole stories can be written without sex and without violence-or with minimal violence) it is just there because you wanted to write it, not because it adds anything. Some people would argue that everything a person writes is because they want to write


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Introducing: My Fantasy Rants

August 11th 2008 02:34
This is my own set of rants about fantasy, covering cliches and things that are overdone in fantasy. How to do things well and how they have been done badly.

For those of you that haven't read Limyaael's rants, they're all very good and there's a link in a recent post. I don't have it written down off the computer so I can't put it here, as I'm not looking at it at the moment


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