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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:04 AM Original message |
An exam for wannabe fantasy writers |
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RevolutionaryActs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. That's fabulous. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
2. 6. Did your main character shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die? |
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philosophie_en_rose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 01:18 AM Response to Reply #2 |
15. 7. Is your character a poorly-disguised version of you |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
3. whoa, whoa, whoa...then on what page do i slip through a crevice so tight... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
4. Classic, classic shit! |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Done! |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. 4 hours long. |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:36 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Shut up. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:54 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I heard they're also going to make Sandor and Tyrion the same person |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 06:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. Ditto. |
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allinktup (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
8. hey, is this about george bush? |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
9. Okay... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 12:54 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. (note to self: |
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booley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
12. Sometimes you can have these and still have a good story |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 01:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Speaking of Drizz't |
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TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 01:25 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. LOL....so true |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 03:15 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. LOL, did that to a buddy, many times... |
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booley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 05:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Speaking of Clerics |
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TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
13. That list is messed up. |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 03:16 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. The only ones I agree with are the ones that mention hit points and mana... |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 03:27 AM Response to Original message |
19. Perfect. Sums up... |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
22. Yes to all but #3 |
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Writer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
23. Oh shoot, my novel passes with flying colors... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 07:06 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Mine is named "There and Back Again" |
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Writer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 07:10 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. How profound. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 07:57 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. What, you planning on plagiarizing me? |
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Writer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 08:25 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Plagiarizing you? |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 07:59 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. And Volume 2 of the trilogy: "Dragonriders of the Wheel: From Xanth to Shannara" |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 08:07 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. And the final cataclysmic volume, "Dragonslayer End Game: From Erna to Rohan" |
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Writer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 08:26 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Whoa. That is just screaming "Newberry Book Award." |
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Writer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 08:47 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Of course, it should be followed several years later by... |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 09:09 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. And then "Dragonslayers Lost: A New Age in Which Humans Now Reign Supreme" |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 09:11 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Then "Dragonslayers Regained: Some Kid Found the The Orb of Asterix" |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 09:13 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. And then many years later: "Before There Were Dragons", edited by author's son |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 09:16 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. And then "Lost Tales of Dragons", edited from yet more "lost manuscripts" |
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Writer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 10:23 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. LOL... actually I was talking to someone who published a book about ten years ago... |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
24. How about: |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
27. Heaven help you, do you ever use the term "hit points" in your novel? |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
28. Here's the one I have in my head |
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Lethe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
32. i must be even dorkier than a fantasy writer....... |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-14-07 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
39. Very funny, however, |
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