Yeah! I initially drew them at work in a notebook, but wasn't happy that they were on A5 lined paper. They took no more than an hour each. The...
That is a very detailed map, and very good one! I see some forum users aren't that into creating a detailed map, but I certainly don't see any...
I bloody love a map! I like seeing how far a character has come, and also daydreaming about the parts that the book doesn't touch upon is quite...
Nicknames are good! I spent ages trying to think up names for my antagonistic characters. There are two types: a very tall one and a very small...
My first "notes" were a world I built in Minecraft :) But since then I made notes all over the place and collated them on my laptop. Some chapters...
My MC is really naive, which he hasn't been able to much about given the location he grew up in. When he manages to break free of that place, his...
I began writing simply because my imagination was taking over my entire thought process. I created a world that somehow formed whilst I was...
It might work if the story was released to readers within a short time frame that made the link to real life events/news/TV more relevant. In the...
I believe these were lines from a published book, Gloria referenced it: Harry Hebron's western novel, "Dead Men Don't Shoot Back". Black Horse Press.
See, I find those examples easy to read and in my own opinion it makes for more layers of detail with regards to the characters. After his lines,...
I love the sound of this! Have you considered that in making the end of the first book a low point for the MC you could also make the end a...
Cool. Well, like I said, I've only used this during a couple of short sections of the story and only from a few characters with small parts. I...
Hi! I'm writing a few chapters at the moment that revolve around a group of brutish people that take my main character captive. They come from a...
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