Yeah, it is. And I'm glad I decided to have six different characters to change the narrative because I see some readers not liking this guy all that much. Which is fine, he's kind of meant to be a douche. Or I could be completely wrong on that front, I have no idea. It's okay. There is no cake. I didn't get to play my game the other day, book got in the way. At least traffic on my social network has gone back up. 57 likes on Facebook, over 93,000 views on Google Plus, 91 followers on Twitter. Never underestimate the popularity of wrestling. I've been reading A Game of Thrones as of yesterday and noticed a few parallels between George's writing style and my own. The short sentences, heavy use of dialog, vague descriptions, quick pacing, more characters than you can shake a stick at. I wish I had gotten into this series much sooner. Maybe I wouldn't have been so hard on my writing style if I knew there was a published author who used some of these techniques himself. Not that I think I'm a mini George or anything. I'm just not used to having anything in common with another author.
Our conversation has no beginning or end; it is a constant. Characters who have a mind of their own are pretty great. Writing characters with very distinct voices is an art, but when it works well it's pretty splendid. I would like a cake, but having cake at 11:30pm is probably not a good idea if I intend on ever actually making it to bed. Not much is up. I've had a really productive day, which is nice. Got a lot done around the house, did a presentation for class and was graded well, finished another assessment and have just started an essay. Even found a moment to do the writing prompt, which is cool. Nice when even my down time was productive.
I forgot how douchey this character I'm writing for is. So far he's talking about his abs and the women that want him. Douche. Hi! This has been a random VM by ToriJ. Would you like a cake? What's up?
Sounds pretty neat
Most of the world and lore construction has already been done, it's just a matter of choosing how to use it. I'm thinking of dedicating a chapter to each major location from the POV of a native to that area leading up to the main plot that ties it all together. I'm even thinking of having one of the chapters be from the POV of a blind person, just to give myself an extra challenge.
Awesome. World and lore construction is something I am interested in and have done on occasion, but usually I have too many writing projects going at once to dedicate enough time to that so writing a lot of fantasy/sci-fi doesn't happen. I'm open to it though if I get struck by a decent idea.
Sounds cool. I mainly dabble in fantasy and supernatural with the occasional Sci-Fi element. My current story incorporates all of those genres.
Most of my stories are set in our world, or an undisclosed world that could be ours (e.g. I've done some post-apocalyptic stuff). Most of my stuff is of the 'That could actually happen' variety. I've experimented with a lot of different things though and have touched on pretty much every genre at one time or another. I do have a fictional history book in the works at the moment that is set in a fantasy world. Also recently finished a short story about a giant for a particular competition. So I do dabble in fantasy occasionally, just not for epic novels.
What have you written?
Yes, you definitely seem to be channelling George RR Martin. Fantasy writing is a thing I've done very little of.
