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    Writing in different languages

    Very interesting! Thank you!
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    Writing in different languages

    I am quite fluent in it and I usually show short excerpts. I tried both writing initially in the second language and going through a translator and then correcting by myself.
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    Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

    With that turn, you should also avoid making him a walking stereotype of the dark mysterious traumatized guy. He should still feel realistic as a person and not romanticized as well as the violence should feel realistic, not exaggerated.
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    Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

    I think it is fine, as long as they are not an untouchable Mary Sue, but actually an interesting character that doesn't have plot armor and everything given on a platter. I wouldn't particularly care if the main hero is a self-insert when the story is captivating and cohesive.
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    Writing in different languages

    For example, you write a story and you want to show it to different people, but one of them does not speak the language that you wrote in, but they do speak in the other language you know. What would you do? Put it in the translator and call it a day? Write from scratch in the second language...
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    Sound Off Safe from the Middle East

    Quiet in Tel Aviv too. Hopefully it will continue to be that way. Thank you for the thread
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    Writing Challenges - how often, what sort of

    Oh dang, I think that's very interesting
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    CIRCATRIX

    Looking in the mirror, she carefully examined her eyelashes, eyes, cheeks, and lips, mentally bidding farewell to her childish face—today was the day she entered adulthood. Every gray elf goes through this when they reach a hundred years of age—an elder draws the family crest on the face of the...
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    "My Characters are not Me" Train of Thought?

    I wouldn't say the characters I write about are me in any way, but I also wouldn't say that I struggle with them. A character, of course, has character, but for me, first and foremost, a character is a narrative device to tell and show, less so a human being. But there is a certain type of...
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    Writing Challenges - how often, what sort of

    How often do you do writing challenges for yourself and which ones? For example, challenging yourself to write something in the narrative way that you haven't tried before (unreliable, 1/2 person, 3 not omniscient), or setting a goal to transmit a feeling or writing about a topic and trying to...
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    never finished this, so I'll do it now: a detailed view on the greatest heroes of my fantasy world

    I think you can add more storyteller-ish speech patterns, talk with the listeners and of course over-dramatize the tales. And maybe instead of "we don't know" you could use something of "and no one ever knew" or "only the gods know", y'know, to make it prettier. I think pretty language is very...
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    QUO VADIS

    15 of Bathier 2271 from Descent of Prophets My name is Beniamino Corsakino, I am a traveler and explorer, and I think I've gone mad. Or rather, I'm quite certain I have. I've become so accustomed to the spectrum that haunts me that I now perceive it as a member of the expedition. Ilimae is one...
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    Tales of Oynuyor

    A collection of stories about happenings and occurrences in Disc World Oynuyor
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    • fantasy fiction short stories
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    Overthinking Worldbuilding?

    I think it very much is, at least for me. Totally different things
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    In dire need of feedback for my concepts (Creation myth story)

    It is not the story, but a religious document in it, and my goal is to make it sound as a religious document. A bit boring, taught to children as a creation tale and to barbarians seeking to convert them. Cosmological tale of creation, so to say. So my question is does it sound natural as a...
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