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Questions 3: Fairy Tails From Around the World

I’m going to admit that I don’t know many fairy tales beyond the ones American children get while growing up.  Those tend to be Disney-associated.  So, this is a topic I’m curious about, but have no knowledge on.  I did … Continue reading

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Questions 3: The Fallen Apprentice

You know, I’m just going to dive right into the questions.  I mean, I’ve made a post about fallen apprentices and another about hubris.  Covers the topic pretty well for only having a week to do so. If you were … Continue reading

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Questions 3: Ice Age Animals

Right before Holiday Break here, so things are busy.  Figure it would be fun to try some Ice Age questions . . . Yeah, I’m not really sure where I’m going with this either.  Consider it an end of the … Continue reading

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Questions 3: Basic Skills of Characters

Since basic skills can change from person to person, I figure I’ll open the floor.  Got my hands full today as well.  Keep in mind that I’m talking about the skills authors and readers don’t think about.  We take them … Continue reading

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Questions 3: What If You Can’t Publish?

Let me clarify.  It isn’t if you don’t want to publish.  These questions deal with situations where you aren’t able to publish.  Maybe you can’t afford cover art or lack the time to properly edit.  Maybe you don’t have the … Continue reading

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Questions 3: When Events Happen at the Same Time

I was going to make this a long post about the topic, but I think I’m going to open the floor to other authors. Similar to jumping timelines, a story can have events going on at the same time, but … Continue reading

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Questions 3 and Looking Back at ‘Do I Need to Use a Dragon?’

This book has been out for a little over a year.  So, I don’t think this is going to be much of a looking back.  Making the situation even more difficult, this book plagued me for a while due to … Continue reading

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Questions 3 and Looking Back at War of Nytefall: Eulogy

The finale of War of Nytefall wasn’t an easy story to write.  Having to juggle the aftermath of the previous volume, I put myself into a rather difficult corner.  Can’t even do a synopsis without spoilers.  I’ll just touch on the … Continue reading

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Questions 3 and Looking Back at War of Nytefall: Anarchy

Here we have the penultimate volume of War of Nytefall.  You can tell from the title that things are going to go wrong.  The overall story ending up becoming more complicated than I originally planned too.  Lost took a more central … Continue reading

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Questions 3 and Looking Back at War of Nytefall: Savagery

There were two versions of Savagery when I was outlining.  One had the big villain showing up once per book before it being 18-19 chapters of brutal battling.  The other was what I used instead, which turned into a deviation from Clyde’s … Continue reading

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