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Author Craft / Re: Werewolves and pregnancy
« on: October 27, 2008, 10:20:46 PM »
If you've already established that the infant is born in the same form as the mother at the time of birth, I'd say option 1. From a literary standpoint, option 2 has more shock value, though.  Depending on your style, that may be either a good or bad thing.

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Author Craft / Re: Automata, chapter 1
« on: October 25, 2008, 05:01:00 PM »
Thanks, Roaram.  I wouldn't have messed with POV on my own, but since you point it out, it does need some tweaking. 

@Finn: Fair enough.

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Author Craft / Automata, chapter 1
« on: October 23, 2008, 02:28:34 AM »
Need input.

I'm sorry I had to remove this, but because it's the website of an author, we can't post anything that might be construed as a story idea. I realize this isn't normally what Jim writes...but Jim's also going to write something completely different after his next Alera book.

If you want to post a link to it elsewhere, that's fine, as far as I'm concerned.

Again, apologies for the deletion, it's to protect everyone involved, including you, not just Jim. (You're not in trouble in the slightest, btw.) -Mickey

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This is a rough draft, and will likely get changed a lot.  The main characters of the book are going to be other Automata sent to find Grandfather. No more full-scale battles.  None of the characters in this chapter really matter.  Basic background that will be revealed in the next chapter includes info on the war between the Enclave, a militaristic organization of humans, and the Automata, as well as some info on Grandfather, the man who made the Automata races. 

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Author Craft / Re: Shameless use of the board's creativity
« on: October 19, 2008, 03:58:22 PM »
This is something I recommend to anyone who ever has to make a villain.  The Villain Workshop.  The author of this masterpiece of evilness is Rich Burlew, and holy crap, it's good.  Er, bad.  Um.  What do you call an excellent bad guy?

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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: October 19, 2008, 03:51:34 PM »
Quote from: meg_evonne on October 18, 2008, 09:13:26 PM
 Still don't the character haunt you from your buried computer files----"Write me!  Write me!"  LOL

No, actually.  I think it's because I'm a gamer, and am used to accepting that a character is gone, or at least on hold indefinitely.  Playing RPGA in the Bandit Kingdoms does that.  My first character died in 3 minutes to the first damage roll of the session.  Since then, I've retired dozens, maybe a hundred characters.  Not many of them have actually died, but there were some I wanted to. 

But no, I don't make outlines.  I tried with my post-apocalyptic book, but I ended up jumping the tracks pretty quick.  Mostly, I write because I feel like it, so when I don't, I don't.

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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: October 18, 2008, 03:41:50 PM »
Hey folks.  I guess I'm not really an aspiring writer, since I don't really plan to publish anything, but I write a lot.  Just not on the same project for any length of time.   ;D  I never get a story past a chapter or two before writer's block sets in, so I mostly just bounce from project to project.  I think in the last year, I've started a post-apocalyptic adventure, a super hero story, a sort of Arthurian fantasy, and the most recently project involves some kind of distopian war between technology and creatures of supernatural origins, with homunculi and golems slated as the protagonists.

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