Recent content by DragonOfTheAerie

Fatal?? O_O Actually, I think there are two versions of this: the version where world building is an excuse to procrastinate about getting the actual work of the writing done, and the version where the writer is so obsessed with the world they develop it forever and never get around to...

Which ones? I've heard a lot about the guy but I don't know where best to start.

Oh yes. In any case, this will end up being a different sort of story than the kind we are accustomed to.

Hmmmm. Well, the reasoning behind using a battle in the climax is that a battle is the final release of the tension built up throughout the story. A story 'builds up' to a climax. It's got to be tense and exciting. A situation that's resolved through negotiation would probably feel more like...

I've read stuff like this, mostly in the 'fantasy of manners' category. Temeraire comes to mind. And I've heard the term historical fantasy before. I think several books like this have been released in the YA category lately. Yes, it's a thing, and apparently people like and read it. But...

Blond? Blond eyes? Have never heard that word applied to eyes. Anyway, I think it's gotten uncommon in recent years due to being overused to cheesy effect and has slipped into becoming a Discredited Trope (if thats the right term.) Now it's not so common anymore and could potentially be...

Pretty sure it's the first one.

Tricky, very much so. I'm assuming the tragic sacrifice requires the reader to have some sort of attachment to the character for it to have the emotional effect you want. The relationship with the hero--even trickier. Relationships, in stories as in life, take time to grow. You'll have to give...

Ahhh, that's disappointing.

First thought is yes, why not? Next thought is while transformed or no? (Why would a werewolf in wolf form be drinking, though? Unless he ate a drunk person?) Third thought is of how dogs are negatively affected by alcohol more than humans. But...depends on what you want for the story, really.

That's a run-on.

General Ludendorff was kind of a loose end. That is to say, the steroids make him super strong, but he just dies without much effect or consequence, without having affected the story much. And, yeah. Diana: Humans are basically good and war is a scourge that corrupts them! I have to free...

I don't think beginnings need punch and pizzazz. Actually, I think a flashy, action-packed beginning can betray that the author's trying to make up for the beginning's emotional vapidness. All you need is to get your reader to care. All the beginnings you mention seem perfectly fine and...

Two year olds have the best ideas. There are any number of really cool takes of this, as others have presented. Maybe the main character is a chef that specializes in preparing food made out of ghosts. It's a unique skill set, I'd imagine. But if the ghosts take on traits of dead people...

I generally struggle with any kind of fight/action scene. For some reason they're just hard to get through. I prefer dialogue and more emotional scenes.