Somehow a "first" snuck in there, it should just say "third rewrite."
I'm currently on my third rewrite of a dark fantasy novel...last go around I got to 20k words before starting over and this time I've spent a week...
I mean they're common for a reason. Some people have a distaste for some particular tropes (I personally stay away from anything with "classic...
Pretty funny, though the "writer's block" one I found pretty silly as it just perpetuates the myth that "writer's block doesn't exist" and that...
But that doesn't mean they are right.
All of this reminds me of a comment by the author Mark Lawrence: "I am not my characters." Think that's pretty important to remember and something...
Considering what your story is about, I'd say it would be an injustice to not have the racist people in the story use it, considering that's been...
Don't see why not, Star Wars and Star Trek does it and most people consider them sci-fi.
Best place to start is to not call it "chain mail" ;) It's just "mail" or "maille." Why do you feel it necessary to add more detail other than...
Unless of course you write Star Wars/Star Trek type sci-fi, then you can just make up whatever you want and call it "science" without having to...
Every genre is easy to write...but no genre is easy to write well.
Being quite the history nerd and having done tons of research in my own spare time, I'd say it's a lot easier to research that sort of thing than...
I don't really care if it was easier for you to do as a fantasy novel as opposed to another genre, what I'm commenting on here is the notion that...
Not sure how "sour grapes" applies here?
It may just be me, but it seems people aren't realizing that there's a difference between good fantasy and bad fantasy. You can easily write a...
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