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I just posted 'Children of the Stars' on Wattpad!

You know. Because why not. More people might see it. Think it’s cool. Actually want to get it when it’s published and buy the sequels.

You can even read it on your smartphone or kindle or tablet or…whatever other device does that sort of thing. My dad tested it out on his e-reader. So that certainly works.

This is terribly awkward. It’s not like “promoting” my story on fictionpress got it any attention.

Book Update: More Talinth Info Because I Hate Myself

  • The Plasma Bow

Basic build: Built from light and strong metals, synthetic material used for the string. Special current runs through the synthetic material to charge the shots.

Now is the shot in question a physical arrow or a pellet that dissolves into an arrow shaped energy bolt?

The pellets could be microscopic and fit inside the bow itself by the hundreds/thousands? Fixes the problem of carrying a heavy load of physical arrows.

Maybe assassin units have toxic pellets and less destructive power in their bows making them almost silent in comparison to front line bows?

The pellet in question is ejected from the centre of the bow and suspended in a kinetic tube projected by it. It’s held next to the string and subjected to the current, dissolving it into the arrow shape.

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My haphazard wonderings from my notebook scribbling.

AT THIS POINT I’M JUST GOING TO GLOSS OVER THE GUN THING, SHRUG AND JUST SAY “THEY JUST DIDN’T INVENT GUNS, HEY LOOK OVER THERE IT’S A PLOT!”

102 Resources for Fiction Writers

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Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration.

CHARACTER, POINT OF VIEW, DIALOGUE

10 Days of Character Building

Name Generators

Name Playground

The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test

Priming the idea pump (A character checklist shamlessly lifted from acting)

How to Create a Character

Seven Common Character Types

Handling a Cast of Thousands – Part I: Getting to Know Your Characters

It’s Not What They Say …

Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”

How to Start Writing in the Third Person

Web Resources for Developing Characters

What are the Sixteen Master Archetypes?

Character: A compilation of guidance from classical and contemporary experts on creating great dramatic characters

Building Fictional Characters

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Character Building Workshop

Tips for Characterization

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Villains are People, Too, But …

Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue

Speaking of Dialogue

Dialogue Tips

Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills (character traits)

How to Write a Character Bible

Character Development Exercises

All Your Characters Sounds the Same — And They’re Not a Hivemind!

Medieval Names Archive

Sympathy Without Saintliness

Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Difference for Successful Fiction

Family Echo (family tree website)

Interviewing Characters: Follow the Energy

100 Character Development Questions for Writers

Behind the Name

Lineage Chart Layout Generator

PLOT, CONFLICT, STRUCTURE, OUTLINE

How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method

Effectively Outlining Your Plot

Conflict and Character within Story Structure

Outlining Your Plot

Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets

How to Write a Novel

Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense

Plunge Right In … Into Your Story, That Is!

Fiction Writing Tips: Story Grid

Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot

Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”

The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations

The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plotting Tricks

Conflict Test

What is Conflict?

Monomyth

The Hero’s Journey: Summary of the Steps

Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes

Plotting Without Fears

Novel Outlining 101

Writing the Perfect Scene

Fight Scenes 101

Basic Plots in Literature

One-Page Plotting

The Great Swampy Middle

SETTING, WORLD BUILDING

Magical World Builder’s Guide

I Love the End of the World

World Building 101

The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help You Bring Your Settings to Life

Creating the Perfect Setting – Part I

Creating a Believable World

An Impatient Writer’s Approach to Worldbuilding

Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions

Setting

Character and Setting Interactions

Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds

Creating Fantasy Worlds

Questions About Worldbuilding

Maps Workshop — Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping

World Builder Projects

IDEAS, INSPIRATION

Quick Story Idea Generator

Solve Your Problems Simply by Saying Them Out Loud

Busting Your Writing Rut

Writing Inspiration, or Sex on a Bicycle

Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips to Engineer a Productive Flow

The Seven Major Beginner Mistakes

Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits

Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging

Random Book Title Generator

Finishing Your Novel

Story Starters and Idea Generators

REVISION

How to Rewrite

One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle

Editing Recipe

Cliche Finder

Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written

Writing 101: So You Want to Write a Novel Part 3: Revising a Novel

TOOLS and SOFTWARE

My Writing Nook (online text editor; free)

Bubbl.us (online mind map application; free)

Freemind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

XMind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

Liquid Story Binder (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $45.95; Windows, portable)

Scrivener (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $39.95; Mac)

SuperNotecard (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $29; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

yWriter (novel organization and writing software; free; Windows, Linux, portable)

JDarkRoom (minimalist text editor; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

AutoRealm (map creation software; free; Windows, Linux with Wine)

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YEP YOU’RE GOING ON MY BLOG.

(Source: ruthlesscalculus)

  • Narrator:

    In the estimated hour it's taken to watch this documentary, E L James has made some £6000 off the 50 Shades trilogy.

  • Me:

    WHAT?

  • Narrator:

    That works out to a million pounds a week!

  • Me:

    . . .

  • Me:

    *looks at all the effort and thinking and writing done to make her science fiction intricate and believable*

  • Me:

    . . .

  • Me:

    *sobs quietly on the floor*

Book Update: Talinth Government Thoughts


So I had some discussion with at least two friends about the Talinth leaders and government. This was mostly sparked from one of the friends questioning how sincere the Talinth leaders would be compared to our own leaders.

Needless to say I got frustrated and angry and stewed in some mysanthropic feelings for a bit.

But it did get me thinking.

The Talinth government is more or less a form of Deliberative Democracy. The major clan leaders and the leaders of the few subclans beneath them frequently come together and discuss the ruling of their civilization at large, what laws to pass, what direction their people should go in.

Now when the Unification Act came into play, I’m thinking that a set of rules were put in place to ensure their new government would be able to fairly lead their people into the stars.

Those rules go as follows:

- No clan can be pushed out of the council without reason. Such as if that clan becomes a threat to the whole or attempts to unbalance the council in their favour.

- All opinions must be considered from each clan involved with the council to ensure the best one is found for the betterment of the Sahren. 

- If a clan is found to be swaying decisions in their favour they are to be ousted from their seat. If a clan is found to be setting another clan up they too are to be ousted. 

There certainly needs to be more of them but that’s what I have so far.

After this I wondered if those leaders would adhere to the rules on their own or if an enforcer type clan would be in place to make sure they remember those rules.

So now there’s an enforcer clan that needs a name and a leader. I figured it would be of mixed origin so there would be little in the way of favouritism, so it wasn’t built of an original bloodline but a group of devoted Sahrists hand picked from various clans and countries.

Name: Lusaro

Leader: Tarh’el Lusaro

Tarh’el is a stoic warrior of Lun’sahre in her eighth century, she and the rest of the Lusaro guard stand watch over the council chambers as the clan leaders discuss the issues of their civilization. 

 I’ll expand on it more, but for now that’s what I have. At least it’s in place.

My only other thought about the Lusaro is that their devotion to Lun’sahre is shown in a similar matter to Shenra in as much as they tattoo red ovals around their eyes. It is symbolic of Lun’sahre’s appearance in life.

TOR Drabble: Trooper - Identity

Ash wasn’t sure if it was obvious but no matter how hard she tried she could not sleep on the trip back to Coruscant. She lay awake with her mind racing and frozen at the same time, unable to think of anything yet harassed by a million thoughts.

She lay sprawled on her bed, everyone but 4X and N2 resting; 4X powered down on occasion to check his systems. 

Staring up at the ceiling provided no answers. She didn’t know what to make of her existence after being on Tatooine again.

“Thanks for teaching these pups a thing or two.”

“Don’t thank me for this. Don’t ever thank me for this.”

She hadn’t allowed the old man to respond, brusquely asking if they required anything else done. 

Her fingers curled into the sheets of her bed and she sat up, brows knitting in frustration. She never wanted to return to Tatooine ever again, not while her loyalties were demanded by someone else, not while she was still part of this broken, bloated ‘tribe.’

Swinging her legs over the edge of her bed she got up and stretched her body out, finding her hair tie and getting her hair out of the way.

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TOR Drabble: Trooper - Tears of the Desert

It was a lot more comforting than she felt it should be, wearing a helmet again in this desert heat. She’d finally relented to the urge and constructed one for herself during some downtime between missions. She’d wear it if only to keep the heat off her skin, she wasn’t a naturally dark person and growing up with her entire body shielded by thick coverings did nothing to change that. The sun had no mercy for a pale hide.

She made it recognizable with the rest of her armour, no matter how much instinct pushed her to make it personally familiar. Ghorfa coverings didn’t have comms and air filtering.

Regardless of her muddled feelings on what should be a simple thing, she was thankful for one aspect. It hid the anger and disgust on her face when she was asked to take the militia recruits of some pitiful trading post out and train them against the local tribe.

She was silent for only a few seconds but her mind raced, her heart felt like it twisted upon itself and her gut froze. She had so far avoided directly conflicting with the Ghorfa, a sense of loyalty to a life and culture she couldn’t return to. She wasn’t one of them any more, she couldn’t be; so who was she loyal to?

“Sir?”

Elara’s voice snapped her back to reality, “I’ll do it.”

The recruits were young pliant things who could barely hold a gun and Ash did not honestly see many of them surviving a fight against Ghorfa. She bit back her sneer at the boast over Vastil’s knowledge of the Ghorfa, she didn’t need his help to fight them; she knew them better than any of these clueless outsiders ever would.

They set out towards the overrun settlements and Ash could feel Elara’s eyes on her. She wondered if Elara felt bad when fighting Imperials, was Elara silently questioning her resolve to help the side she joined instead of the side she came from?

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