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    How to "show" instead of "tell" this aspect of my fantasy world?

    I like to put in description, but it gets too long. There are some things I say that end up being an info dump and I always take it out and put it back in. So I don’t know why my stories seem so long, they could just as easily be too short. That would make sense. There is nothing particularly...
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    Do any of your characters swear? If so how often do they swear if at all?

    There are some other no-nos. Most crimes. Bathrooms. Excessive suffering. Boring mundane bits. Metal and Hip-Hop? To be honest, swearing is too impactful for me, it draws you into every day life. It is even less successful in our fantasy genre. That is the reason I would avoid it. However I do...
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    Allay the jaded Wizard

    How much, is the wizard more important than the blacksmith or hero in the story, and why is evil at the king’s side? I was wondering about it, and you may not use these rules in your story, but when does evil get too much? I am researching time travel in my story - because someone gave me the...
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    Got told AI did a better job than me.

    So you need not be taught to code.
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    Identifying and sharpening your writing voice

    You will always be interested in improving. That all comes down to what you prefer. Walk do not run. There is a certain flair that is important in a writers repertoire. They talk of things like they are on another level when met with comrades or kindred. It is different for each art form. You...
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    Be on the Lookout for AI Bots in Our Forums and Our DM's

    They are like most monsters. Their weakness is waffles and plastic.
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    Got told AI did a better job than me.

    AI are master snipe artists. They don’t think of human ingenuity, just…maybe if it was weighed up with some valuable criticism, then the AI human comment would…it makes me wonder where we were going, if the artists integrity is taken away from them.
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    An Introduction with Riddles

    Hat, sunscreen, towel. Slip slop and slap?
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    Ships and More Ships

    I looked through it, but there was no barque. Why, for the love of god, no barque?
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    Aelithar’s Resonance

    It seems like a familiar tale to me. And poems do not always rhyme. It does seem like a blurb as pmmg says but it could also be additional to that. I wonder, what makes the heavens crack? Do they require a sacrifice? It is cryptic this memory, but what makes it echo through the ages? It is...
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    how to create your BBEG in your fantasy story

    There is Gundam Requim; that poses the Unicorn as the BBEG. It was traditionally the good guy. This is a good start.
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    my fantasy planet is trillions of years old, so where is the tech? (explanation)

    I was thinking of the Anime X. That seems to be where fantasy is headed these days. It is like the cursor has fractured. My advice would be, slap an R rating to it, sell it on the black market, write something other than chronologically, then you will find this, redacted. What I’m concerned...
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    Have you ever been spooked by video game 'scary' stories?

    Zelda has always seemed dismal... I think the Metroid story is pretty redacted for Samus. Mass Effect has chilling stories inside stories. The Rachni. The Genophage. Anything inspired by Shakespeare? There is a total mess of inspiration, dotted around the place, taking some pretty spooky...
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    WRITING a magic system.

    Slap magic to a milk carton and let it be found.
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    marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published

    That reminds me of Disney. There seem to be a whitewash on media, that says big is best, but when you get down to it the same dark story.
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