Look up Tamora Pierce and Patricia Wrede for some new fantasy, and if all else fails, you can always re-read The Lord of the Rings :) L'Engle has...
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I start with a makeshift introduction to my paper, one that I'll more likely than not discard later. It helps me get started, even if it does end...
'In progress' is a bit more vague, as the process is not named. You normally wouldn't say 'in process', you'd say 'in the process of' and then...
Katheryn Stockett - I haven't read her book, 'The Help', but I did read an article about her. Her manuscript was rejected 60 times before she...
How about dragons and gryphons? Really, I could see it go in any direction once the next best seller fantasy novel comes out.
Either leave it be or use hyphens: A-squadron, one-troop, etc.
I'm working on a fantasy novel called 'Outcast' about a half-elf who isn't accepted by the humans because she looks like an elf and isn't accepted...
20 pages is a bit much if the skirmishes aren't involved in the plot. You could try, like, two paragraphs in the beginning telling why they're at...
Meaning the tragedy and its causes and effects are the plot? I've read something like that: 'Left Behind' by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. The...
Try Shakespeare. That man was pure genius. Other than that, I'd say make sure there's an emotional attachment to the characters who get...
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I've written bits and pieces since I could write, but I started on my first serious endeavor a year or so ago. I don't plan on giving up any time...
Faerytale here. No, that is not a misspelling. 'Faery' is a place where magical creatures, or 'fae' live. As it happens, that's where I live...
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