Recent content by Xaiver

I, personally, would rather over-do it, and have tons of extra notes and details on my hands, than not enough. While I agree that it's better to leave the reader wanting, and let their imagination take it somewhere...I would rather draw a beautiful world, with fully fleshed characters, and let...

Mind mapping! That's what I was looking for. Thanks for all the replies, guys. I just grabbed a program called XMind, and it -seems- to be more or less what I'm looking for. A way to organize my notes into categories and all of that. The timeline thing I can probable figure out how to...

So I sat here thinking, how could I make this easier? What would it take to lay out the storyline and plot in a concise format, and not chew through bales of paper. I am just coming back from 3 weeks of a crazy work schedule, trying to get my feet back in the water. So I started looking...

Thanks for all the encouragement, it means a lot. Actually, my girlfriend is being pretty awesome about all of this. She's been trying to convince me to do something other than play video games and work. At some point I said that I'd like to start writing again, because I had been doing a...

I'm a waiter, by trade. Well, not really, but it's my current chosen occupation. I picked it because it was something that I thought I would like to do, and it's (sort of) involving my mind and my body. We're on a strange schedule right now, one of the other servers quit to go back to school...

Thanks for the feedback, guys. It's given me a bit to think about...and a few more questions. I think my use of the word "filler" was a bit more dramatic than I intended. When I say that, I don't mean fluff, I mean non-critical elements. Walking through a town and passing a fellow with an...

True... Well, right now I'm sort of outlining a scene where the protagonist is moving through a bog. I'm still sort of deciding if I want to do with the overall feel of the writing. Whether to do the agonizing detail in a Wheel of Time-like method, or if I wanted to go more utilitarian, more...

Actually, that's not bad. Something that I could easily do during a revision process. Write out the fun scenes and then hit the wandering and traveling when I am having all the fun of editing. :)

I seem to have the most trouble with the 'filler' material. I can type out a scene without too much trouble, but I start to get stumped when it comes to traveling. Moving between the scenes shouldn't be that difficult, should it? Granted that it's a bit different than how we do it in real...

This... That drives me nuts when I'm reading a series. Why on earth would you skip book 1 in a series? Doesn't the fact that most of them say "Book two of blahblahblah" give them a hint that they're starting in the middle? I sometimes have to skim the first chapter or two, as they're...

Thank you all for the kind greetings, it's certainly nice to have such a warm welcome comittee. :) I live in the central part of Minnesota, actually, the greater St. Cloud area.

I'm pretty new here, and actually still trying to get my head back into a place where I can think all of this through, but maybe I can toss in a different side of the conversation I'm seeing. One of my favorite authors is David Eddings. I started reading his work with the Elenium and the...

I'm a PC gamer at heart...and I don't own any consoles. I had the pleasure of skipping Fable 2 because they decided not to release it to the PC. I did really enjoy Fable: TLC, and Fable 3 was fun...but you're right, it felt like an entirely different game. The whole action/consequence was...

Also, I adore talking to people that know what a comma is, and how to use the enter key to break up their wall-o-text. Seems like everywhere I go on the interwebs there are lots of people who find it perfectly acceptable to submit a post that's really nothing but a big blob of uncontrolled thought.

My name is Xaiver, and I hail from the frigid north of the US of A. I recently quit smoking (2 months off now) and am looking for something to do with my extended life. ;) I'm 27 years old and my girlfriend and I are expecting a little one come the new year. Life has been busy for me...