tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428142536066964074.post2880731826571548192..comments2023-06-27T03:53:01.973-05:00Comments on Story Forger: World Blip – How to Maps ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04286751617899324922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428142536066964074.post-28663611321654138542016-07-15T12:40:11.747-05:002016-07-15T12:40:11.747-05:00My pleasure. ^-^
There's always -something- th...My pleasure. ^-^<br />There's always -something- that needs to be worked on, isn't there? <br />Best of luck!ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04286751617899324922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428142536066964074.post-1954637266542991122016-07-15T12:03:25.919-05:002016-07-15T12:03:25.919-05:00Thankyouthankyouthankyou that really helped. (I...Thankyouthankyouthankyou that really helped. (I'm writing a short adventure novel-ish thing, so no Nathaniel Hawthorne chapters)<br />Your point about the character's voice needing to come through especially helped the way I was thinking about locale descriptions. I need to work on that more. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428142536066964074.post-74687718400716240122016-07-15T11:38:12.610-05:002016-07-15T11:38:12.610-05:00And a little bit more, from a few paragraphs of ac...And a little bit more, from a few paragraphs of action later; this time of the inside of the Citadel:<br /><br />The priests at the door frowned at him, but neither moved to stop him. Good. Roshin didn’t want any killing, this time. A strange request… usually the man didn’t care. But Nofghe did as he was told. Sometimes. He smiled to himself and walked down the corridor into the Citadel proper. ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04286751617899324922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428142536066964074.post-11111509537793122912016-07-15T11:36:37.029-05:002016-07-15T11:36:37.029-05:00Hmmm... that comment got long anyway. Oh well. Her...Hmmm... that comment got long anyway. Oh well. Here's an excerpt of description from a chapter of Agram Awakens, my current project:<br /><br />The Citadel took up a whole city block, with its sweeping spires reaching far above the rest of the buildings around it. Twenty stories up at least, Nofghe guess. Maybe more. Probably more, he was horrid at estimating distances. Regardless, the seven ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04286751617899324922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428142536066964074.post-83197744386729772262016-07-15T11:34:46.736-05:002016-07-15T11:34:46.736-05:00Personally, I feel like it depends on the characte...Personally, I feel like it depends on the character I'm writing from. Some point-of-view characters are very detail-oriented and will describe their surroundings in detail, while other characters hardly notice at all (these can be hard to write, because your reader NEEDS some description. <br /><br />I tend to try and give a good description of the immediate setting at the first possible ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04286751617899324922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428142536066964074.post-51928514728473194642016-07-15T11:09:37.015-05:002016-07-15T11:09:37.015-05:00How much time do you spend in your novel mentionin...How much time do you spend in your novel mentioning the geography or trying to give your readers a feel for where they are? And is there a chance you could give an example from your writing of your technique? How much is too much? How much do you like as a reader? <br /><br />~someone who writes sometimes~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com