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Fantasy Novelist's Exam
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Peace Eternal
constantlylackingsleep
lolOh, same here. It was borderline copyright infringement and the plot had so many holes in it that if it were a coat, the Salvation Army wouldn't accept it.
The most terrible thing about mine besides the absence of a plot were the names like "Legolioulus" and "Throdo".
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Lessien
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lol
ROFL!!!! One of my stories--my second--was "loosely based upon Star Wars," meaning I actually had my characters carrying weapons called "soundsabers." :o
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No need to be cynical, I wasn't really angry. And I missed the "longer than." Having only 1 1/2 hours online a day, and needing about 3, I don't usually have time to read slowly.
Actually, I'm quite proud of the originality of my work nowadays. Like most of those here, I started out doing fanfic/rpgs and then began to delve into my own creative side (what R. Krevolin calls "the Left-brain"). Unfortunately, two years from the beginning of my current project, and about four years from the beginning of my writing, I'm crapped once again, and stuck on page 1.
Hope you guys are doing better!God bless,
~ Doubtless
P.S. Do you guys hate me for drive-bying?
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guilty on counts:
19. Though I fail to see why a warrior woman would not be more handy with a sword than a pan.
26. Shining Sea, Mirror Desert... yep.
35. Kinda sorta - taken from future our world and put on alien world with magic.
39. Dwarves, elves, and orcs
47. The fuedelism thing. Actually I moved the story a little up in time when I realized fuedelism sucked.
48. Traveling. Very guilty! When a character stops travelling (even the main one) I switch to a different POV. This can last more than a hundred pages!
69. Theives Guild. Actually, I don't have this one, I just want to point out that I really hate this trope.
72. Common Language. Thnaks to a psycho-lady who makes almost everyone speak her language.
19. Though I fail to see why a warrior woman would not be more handy with a sword than a pan.
26. Shining Sea, Mirror Desert... yep.
35. Kinda sorta - taken from future our world and put on alien world with magic.
39. Dwarves, elves, and orcs
47. The fuedelism thing. Actually I moved the story a little up in time when I realized fuedelism sucked.
48. Traveling. Very guilty! When a character stops travelling (even the main one) I switch to a different POV. This can last more than a hundred pages!
69. Theives Guild. Actually, I don't have this one, I just want to point out that I really hate this trope.
72. Common Language. Thnaks to a psycho-lady who makes almost everyone speak her language.
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lol! Was your main character a farm boy?
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constantlylackingsleep
lol! Legolioulus (who was a girl Elf) looked just like me, and had all my personality traits. At least the ones I deemed 'good'.
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lol! Elleinad had my hair color, my eye color, my exact skin tone, and my personality. (Without all the flaws, of course.) One of the main villain's henchmen was a girl named Nikiki, because a girl at school who teased me was named Nikki.
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ROFL! All my orc commanders had my brothers' names or slight variations.lol! Elleinad had my hair color, my eye color, my exact skin tone, and my personality. (Without all the flaws, of course.) One of the main villain's henchmen was a girl named Nikiki, because a girl at school who teased me was named Nikki.
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ROFL! All my orc commanders had my brothers' names or slight variations.
ROFL!!!!! I didn't bother describing a battle scene. If a problem needed to be solved, all agents of the villain were easily duped. After all, everyone knows that the hardest villains let the hero go when the heroine faints!
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lolROFL!!!!! I didn't bother describing a battle scene. If a problem needed to be solved, all agents of the villain were easily duped. After all, everyone knows that the hardest villains let the hero go when the heroine faints!
My villain was so smart and clever that it never made sense when he lost. All my battle scenes were very graffic. I had whole paragraphs devoted to gorriness about blood spilling out upon the trodden ground as the stench of decaying flesh wound up into the air with the last few whisps of smoke. And on and on about the groans of the dying. Whole armies got slaughtered while Legolioulus was unharmed. A few days later, she had a whole new army at her desposal
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I have a character whose name I got off a trashcan. Which is weird 'cus this is a good guy.
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When my brother was still trying to think up names for his band, he went on a trip to Oregon with my mom and sister. When he came back, he had several new name ideas for a band, the best of which (I thought) was "Murder Ballad Blues."
"That's cool!" I said. "How'd you come up with it?"
"I got it off a bar of soap," he said. Apparently, in Whole Foods (an all-natural and organic store we shop at), there was a whole asile devoted to obscure brand names of toiletries, and one of the soap brands was called Murder Ballad Blues. Isn't that funny?
"That's cool!" I said. "How'd you come up with it?"
"I got it off a bar of soap," he said. Apparently, in Whole Foods (an all-natural and organic store we shop at), there was a whole asile devoted to obscure brand names of toiletries, and one of the soap brands was called Murder Ballad Blues. Isn't that funny?
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I laughed till I cried. I could shatter some dreams by showing this thing to friends on campus. They should teach a course over this.
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I don't think its a good test.
Instead of taking it for myself, I ran some of the best selling fantasy or sci-fi movies and novels through it.
Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire - all fail that test.
And if that's failure, I want some.
Instead of taking it for myself, I ran some of the best selling fantasy or sci-fi movies and novels through it.
Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire - all fail that test.
And if that's failure, I want some.
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