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... )

The Hawkeye Initiative, for those who may not have heard of it, is an online project where artists show exactly how messed up female superheroes' poses are by drawing them being performed by a male superhero, usually Hawkeye. If you haven't seen it before, I highly recommend checking it out; the drawings are hilarious.

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Greetings everyone! I am the DoomOtter and I will be sporking the next chapter of this monstrosity. I am sorry it has taken so long. I had completely forgotten that I had committed to do this, and my turn came up at literally the worst time. I didn’t want to give up the chance, so I hope you’ll forgive me. Anyways this is my first attempt at ( Read more... )

Hello again Anti-Shurtugal, it's been quite a while hasn't it? Some RL stuff came up, school, all that jazz. Anyway, I've recently learned of the traits of a Byronic Hero, a term named for Lord Byron and his writings. It got me thinking, did Paolini draw from some of these traits in his construction of Eragon?

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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... )

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Battle Walkthrough

I crushed a fly on the Inheritance brick today; it was a soothing sensation. . . Anyway, we start off with our good, kind, and noble hero fantasizing about destroying things as the Varden arrive at Dras Leona. Essentially, he wants to lay waste with fire and sword, indulge in every savage urge, and leave behind a pit of smoking ( Read more... )

Battle walkthrough

Once more into the breach! This battle starts at a breach so I don't know what sort of planning went into it or how the assault was led, or even how the breach was made, but at least this city appears to have been taken by conventional (well, as  conventional as these battles get) means, not a surgical strike through all-too- ( Read more... )