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MMarscaleb replied to the thread Months and Calendar.Writing the date as a number like that reminds me of the stardate in Star Trek.
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MThe donjon site has [amongst many other things] a Fantasy calendar generator.
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MMarscaleb replied to the thread Months and Calendar.I'm starting to wonder why it isn't more common to just have footnotes in fantasy works. Why reference an index when you could just have...
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MI think if you used it, most readers would accept it, and file it aways as there are different month names, and this stuff happened in a...
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MI'm debating about using real months in my fantasy story, or using made-up fantasy month names. In fact, I'm considering using a new...
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MMarscaleb reacted to Diana Silver's post in the thread How would I write a power to influence people's feelings without making it evil? with
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What if the general struggles with it himself? To the point where it's not a power at all, but a weakness. He's got this ability and he... -
MMarscaleb posted the thread Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past? in World Building.I have a scene where someone needs to state a city's population, but I have no frame of reference how big a population of X is at any...
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MMarscaleb replied to the thread How would I write a power to influence people's feelings without making it evil?.I appreciate these comments and I've been trying to work these into my story, but I still am struggling to make it really work. Maybe I...
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MMarscaleb reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Like.
I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you asking, did I use "he" for writers in the sentence "A writer should write characters he...
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MMarscaleb posted the thread How would I write a power to influence people's feelings without making it evil? in Writing Discussions.In my story, I have a character who is in a position of authority, (a general,) and is also growing into a father-figure for the main...