It's a good bet that most of us here who write, write fantasy, science fiction, or other speculative work.  This post should apply regardless of genre.  It came to mind when I was responding to the post about the Hero's Journey and I caught myself starting to make a lengthy comment about characters being more ordinary vs. extraordinary.  I finally ( Read more... )

While I was posting my reply about the chances Eragon has of being made into a movie again by Disney, something occurred to me.

We  know that Paolini began writing his series very young, and although it  was published when he was in his 20s through 30s, I feel that his youth at the time of the original writing shows--and not just in how he pulled so ( Read more... )

As we all know, Christopher Paolini has a bad case of Thesaurus Syndrome. One of his most noticeable symptoms thereof is a tendency to avoid the word "said." This is a pretty common amateur mistake: the novice author, hoping to vary up their word choice, inserts a lot of different words into their dialogue tags so that they won't get repetitive. ( Read more... )

Bored, so I scoured the world wide web to see what's entertaining. :P

I don't know if these are real or not but they are sure entertaining if you've time to kill. For now.

1) What Book 5 or 5a will look like


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Some brave souls have started sporking the Bricks here. (And yes, the chapter title links are clickable, even though they don't look that way.)

So, a long time ago, katnip_of_thrae and I agreed to spork the extra chapter from the deluxe edition of Inheritance. Something happened, and we never posted it. We forgot about it I guess. But, here it is now.

Green = Excerpts from the chapter itself
Red = katnip_of_thrae
Black = the_bishop8

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Hello Anti-Shur'tugal, I am Immortal Drayk, this is my true first official project since I have joined. Like many on here, I've read Kris Norge's Tactical Analysis series, and I did enjoy it as I am a fan of military literature. It has also inspired me to write my own series based on it, but instead of describing what strategy I would use to defeat ( Read more... )

I was chatting about the Inheritance Cycle with my little brother a few days ago and once again, we stumbled upon another case of "But that would be interesting" As most of you well know, Paolini has a knack for creating some potential for interesting drama, twists, and turns, and then brutally destroying it in the following sentence/chapter/brick ( Read more... )

Well I last ended on the Battle of Urû'baen where Galbatorix ended the war by nuking himself. Now beautiful as ending things in nuclear fission is (I'm sure citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would agree), there are still some issues that need to be adressed. Over the Varden's whole campaign, what has been their consistency, their way of thinking, ( Read more... )

Greetings everyone! I'm Kris Norge and a new antishurtugal member. Instead of doing the standard chapter by chapter sporking, I decided to use my fascination with warfare. In an effort to bring to the light the child prodigy author's absence of knowledge in warfare, I put my extensive studies of both Roman and medieval strategy and tactics to good ( Read more... )