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Author Craft / Re: Hero vs. Heroine
« on: January 28, 2011, 01:01:32 AM »
This would be a good one...

Or at least it looks like a well thought out reason for someone female and small being badass.

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Author Craft / Re: Hero vs. Heroine
« on: January 26, 2011, 01:20:09 PM »
See I don't see the Gena Davis thing as an example of a badly written female but more an example of bad action in general. Is it worse that its a girl? Maybe a bit... but if a guy character had done the same it would have seemed equally as cheesy in my eyes.

There are other movies with awesome badass women like Resident Evil that don't come off as being that bad or cheesy. Not great cinema maybe... but it didn't strike me as being a "guy in a girl suit".

The pass I give to the Resident Evil movies (2-current) is that the main character had turned into a super hero(heroine)  essentially so all the wall flips and awesome kicks to zombie heads didn't seem as unbelievable as they would have had she still been an ordinary human like she was in the first movie. But even then when she had to fight something bigger and stronger she did lots of evading and strategy rather than going straight brawler with it. And for the first half of the movie she just ran whenever she saw it. That was less about being a "girl" though and more about being a smart action hero.

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Author Craft / Dialog help...
« on: January 07, 2011, 12:38:19 PM »
I'm having huge issues with dialog. I'm writing something that is set in an alternate world roughly technologically equivalent to the beginning of the Industrial revolution. Basically only the barest traces of technology but magic does play a strong role in things.

My problem stems from knowing how to make the dialog sound. It wouldn't work to make the dialog modern ala the Dresden files. And it wouldn't work to have everything sound like a reinterpretation of classic British theater.

Basically everything I come up with sounds too formal and just bad when I read it aloud or in my head. And I'm having trouble coming up with more than a few "spoken" sentences per page. Everything is just happening without much dialog because of this and I know it is a problem.

Just wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions on how to make myself better at spoken conversations when I'm writing. I don't talk all that much in real life and this may be my problem. I'm not that quiet or antisocial. I do talk. Just not as much as most of the people I tend to hang out with.

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Author Craft / Re: Hero vs. Heroine
« on: January 07, 2011, 12:19:38 PM »
Depends on what you are more comfortable writing. I'm a pure novice so writing from a female perspective as a guy is something fairly foreign to me. I wouldn't trust myself at the moment to write a female character.

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Author Craft / Re: Authors and Procrastination
« on: June 13, 2009, 07:40:37 PM »
Quote from: neurovore on June 13, 2009, 06:43:31 PM
From the published novels I have seen in pre-published e-forms that I could do word count on, I would guess about 90,000 words; that's for books around about the length of Dead Beat or a little shorter.

Ah cool... I'm about a quarter of the way into my story and I'm at 24,000... so I guess I'll be alright. I was just wondering if I was padding too much.

Thanks N.

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Author Craft / Re: Authors and Procrastination
« on: June 12, 2009, 11:12:43 PM »
My latest bout of procrastination has me pondering just how many words are in most books anyway?

Anyone know? I didn't look too hard on the internet cause I'm at work... but when I get home I bet I won't check anyway. Anyone have a rough estimate?

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Author Craft / Re: Prototype Magic system
« on: May 23, 2009, 01:39:05 AM »
The gates reminds me a bit of Naruto and the eight chakra gates (and also certain flavors of eastern mysticism)... although it sounds cobbled together from a bunch of different sources so I could be pretty off.

But I haven't read the huge amounts of fantasy that others have so someone else might see something I don't.

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Author Craft / Re: Authors and Procrastination
« on: April 11, 2009, 12:18:33 PM »
I'm procrastinating right now!

I'm at work... and since its Saturday there is basically nothing going on work wise. So I brought my stuff in to work on my book while wait for something to happen here. But instead of writing I'm sitting here looking for threads to read and reply to. I even got around to picking myself an avatar. Only took me 300+ posts. ;p

But yeah. I'm pretty bad at procrastinating.

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Author Craft / Keeping track of characters...
« on: March 02, 2009, 12:14:16 PM »
I'm finding that the farther I progress in my story and the more characters I introduce whether they be minor or major I'm running into the issue of keeping them all straight. Maybe its because I haven't fleshed out many of them in my head...whereas with main characters I have lots of events and backstory all planned.

But I was wondering how you all keep track of your characters. Do you have a character list with descriptions physical and otherwise? Or what do you do?

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Author Craft / Re: This is seriously ****ed up
« on: January 23, 2009, 01:34:04 AM »
He said he was in it for the art. lol.

Honestly the best advice I got from my art professor in college was to to expect and treasure criticism you received. Criticism is far more valuable than praise in most cases.

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Author Craft / Re: Mixing religious backgrounds
« on: November 29, 2008, 04:49:29 PM »
Hmmm I completely forgot about Sandman. I was just thinking of how to rectify other beliefs in a world where one cultures religion isn't a matter of faith but a matter of fact.

I'll have to go back and re-read some Sandman since its been years. I suppose I could also look to Gaiman's book American Gods as I guess that fits the idea really well for what I was thinking of.

Thanks.

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Author Craft / Mixing religious backgrounds
« on: November 28, 2008, 08:44:55 PM »
In a world with different cultures (who for the most part get along and have long since mixed with each other) how should you handle multiple religions? Especially in a world where the gods and mythical creatures of at least one religion are real.... or was real.

I thought I had it worked out but the more I think about it; refering to the old gods (who are now dead and gone) seems weird when I try and tie in other characters with other backgrounds and who's gods were different and may or may not be dead or ever actually real.

Is that clear enough? Or do I still have too much sleep on my brain from the Thanksgiving feast? 

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