Feo Takahari
Dark Lord
I'm fairly certain I've seen fire elemental plus water elemental somewhere--maybe it was a B-plot in The Woman Who Loved Reindeer?
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Is the love story between a human and an elf too worn out?
- Thread starter Vilkas The Mighty Wolf
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Kit
Scribal Lord
I'm an Aries with Sag rising and I dated a triple Scorpio for a while- does that count?
I have written a short story about that last year. Actually it's a lake and a lava stream, but both represented by spirits.
I wanted to revise it again because critics brought up some valid points but haven't come around to do it yet. Is it ok to give a link here?
Feo Takahari
Dark Lord
Once you've made the revisions, post it in the Showcase, and see if people think it's improved.
It is a German story so most probably will do no good posting it in an English forum. With a simple link i could write [German] into the link text so anybody who can not read that language and can not be bothered with a translation tool does not need to click on it.
Kit
Scribal Lord
Well, steamy at least.
Aravelle
Mystagogue
Hm, touche.
To me, it's not what you use to tell a story, but how you tell it. Every writer, whether they admit it or not, consciously or unconsciously, use various tropes that have been played over and over again in almost every story, and many writers rehash the same stories that they've read over and over again.
I say a story's true merit is on how the writer tells it, not on the bits and pieces that he/she uses.
I say a story's true merit is on how the writer tells it, not on the bits and pieces that he/she uses.
SeverinR
Valar Lord
Is a love story between a man and a woman worn out/cliche/ etc?
This is quickly becoming my pet peeve.
Before asking a question of the Fantasy Genre, ask it in real world.
Are elves to cliche? Are Elf human love stories worn out?
In the real world, do people still write about humans? yes, 99% of stories are about humans in the real life genres, so Fantasy humans(elves/dwarves/orcs/trolls/etc) can have endless stories also.
In the real world do people still write about star crossed lovers? yes. Do they write about rich men falling for poor ladies?yes.
royalty vs commoner romances?
If you can write it so as not to be a carbon copy of everything else written, it will not be the same worn out story, no matter what genre.
If you can write about humans, you can write about it with any other race ever thought of.
This is quickly becoming my pet peeve.
Before asking a question of the Fantasy Genre, ask it in real world.
Are elves to cliche? Are Elf human love stories worn out?
In the real world, do people still write about humans? yes, 99% of stories are about humans in the real life genres, so Fantasy humans(elves/dwarves/orcs/trolls/etc) can have endless stories also.
In the real world do people still write about star crossed lovers? yes. Do they write about rich men falling for poor ladies?yes.
royalty vs commoner romances?
If you can write it so as not to be a carbon copy of everything else written, it will not be the same worn out story, no matter what genre.
If you can write about humans, you can write about it with any other race ever thought of.