Cats and world building ( Read more... )

I am now in possession of the sexiest book evah: The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy LiteratureIt's a book of academic essays about fantasy books ( Read more... )

As part of Nano, the organizers have solicited and gotten published authors to write pep talks for the writers gunning for 50k.

One of them is Christopher Paolini. His is written very earnestly, he really wants to be helpful, but misses the mark in a lot of cases.

Shall we take a look at it?

( Paolini's pep talk )

Noodle Incidents ( Read more... )

So I've been NaNoing away and I came to the realization that one of my character's flaws is that he's a hero. Now, I realized that this sounds very much like a Mary Sue (or in this case Gary Stu) flaw, but as I looked at it deeper, it really is a dangerous and devastating flaw. The character, Kale, is perfectly mortal. He has no extraneous special ( Read more... )