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~~Kat Young
John is a Ravenous Reader, and will be returning to University in september to finish a degree in French (and misc). John will get a job in the publishing industry even if it kills him.
| Relating to the previous post, I found a website that has a list of questions to prevent you writing an instant cliche: Click here Just a quick comment though, some of the questions are unfair.....if anyone took this seriously, very few fantasy books would have been published in the last 50 odd years! |
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Comments on "For aspiring Fantasy Novelists"
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Katie said ... (8 August 2007 at 03:30) :
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Anonymous said ... (23 August 2007 at 06:56) :
Have your Saywandering over that way to check it out... maybe I'll find it helpful...
hahahahaha.... ok I don't have to worry. I thought it was very funny actually... loved number 74.
HILARIOUS!!!
74 is the perfect example, Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks has done pretty well, despite being widely critized for mirroring Lord of the Rings.
Glad you thought so, Kat!
*coughs*
Numbers 10 & 21 are familiar to what I have been writing for the last four years.
*coughs, again*
I must get to it sometime and fisnish it.
I like it. I didn't read absolutely every one, but I felt like ACACIA came through pretty well. The only direct hit I really felt was 28...
What's wrong with writing the first book in a trilogy? It's got to start somewhere...
I've read this before and chuckled just as much the second time as the first.
I have fun with lists like these by trying to figure out which books the cliches come from or by taking the plunge by breaking one of the rules and trying to make it work :)