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  1. LilythGeist

    Philosophy, psychology, and themes in writing. What is your story trying to say?

    I am writing Dwynveia as very much a deconstruction of the Portal Fantasy as a genre and how actually traumatic being Isekaid would be. In general, my entire party is a broken mess at the currently written point of the story (chapter 152).
  2. LilythGeist

    How to overcome writer’s block?

    Your fight lacks flow to it. It is closer to an old JRPG than an actual battle. The more... grizzly way to write the beginning sequence would be like this: Arkan narrowed his eyes and pulled the trigger. Kashan dove aside at the last moment, painfully breaking his fall with his arm. Cursing, he...
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    How to overcome writer’s block?

    Have you considered you may, in fact, be a "pantser"? Rather than sticking to a strict outline try going with the flow and incorporate your overall ideas along the way. In the past I have tried multiple times to stick with a set structure only for it to fall apart due to a writer's block. So...
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    How do you write fighting scenes?

    Well... My standard approach is "traumatise the MC and go from there". On a more serious note, having watched enough actual war footage I tend to focus on the fights being clumsy and full of mistakes. Split second decisions. Things going very wrong.
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    How to overcome writer’s block?

    Quick note: Hideaki Anno (the author of Evangelion) was depressed and a lot of his writing is born as an expression of that.
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    What's the scariest book you've ever read?

    My university handbook of Modern Standard Arabic.
  7. LilythGeist

    How to overcome writer’s block?

    I am a 'pantser' so it is slightly different for me but the way I handle it is well... write at my own pace and let story guide me. Sometimes I have to interfere of course, but stories are those beasties that tend to live their own lives, I find. Other than that, do not set yourself arbitrary...
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    Recommendations A novel where the MC is just some guy

    Well... Might as well shill for my own stuff - The Chronicles of Dwynveia Lilyth (the MC) is just a corpo who lost her body and ended up in a bad spot. I am currently writing chapter 151 and she is still very much a somewhat powerful small fish in a very big pond.
  9. LilythGeist

    Free use novel in current world.

    This sounds... Uh... Rapey af
  10. LilythGeist

    Chosen One or The Power Runs in the Family?

    I have taken... the middle approach in a way. The MC has some... additional abilities, but so does every Terran who ends up on Dwynveia. And they mostly amount to jack shit. One of her love interests is a granddaughter of a powerful demon mage. She is not the only one, the demon is an...
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