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Hopefully, these tips given can help you focus on things to portray the scenes properly, like what I said about head hopping before and how to easily avoid it. After all, the movie in your head doesn't matter as much as the movie you put into the heads of others. Or at least they don't if...

That's part of my logic for using Sliding POV and viewing things like jump cuts and all that. I view it can work, just when someone does it with intent and has the proper understanding of when. Regardless, I agree that coloring things and just immersion is where prose's greatest strength lies...

Oh, I get what you're saying! Even then, it's ultimately an observer. We're just able to observe their thoughts. With an omniscient POV, you could totally do this if you used direct internal dialogue. So, like Blah blah blah, X thought. Y, meanwhile, thought, Blah blah blah blah. That's how...

Well, you can judge the character however you want, I just wouldn't allow it to interfere with how you present the narrative when it comes to prose. Your judgments of them are what come through in the themes of the story, if something works for someone, if it doesn't, how people react, etc...

As I said at the end, you do you. There is no "right" way so much as all sorts of principles and techniques which achieve differing things. I will say though it is possible to do that while presenting information to the audience the POV isn't aware of. It just requires juggling multiple POVs...

So, here's the tip I can toss out: keep the details relatively hazy, rely on hints and euphemisms (leave enough to the imagination while hinting at stuff), and focus more on poetic language than erotic ones. Skill with description and prose will come in handy here. I like to blend explicit...

I've noticed a lot of web novelists who could benefit from some lessons on POV and how it impacts prose, particularly with how often they use guide narration for reasons I discuss in this video. For those who are interested in digging more into this type of stuff, I put this together in as...

Oh, you meant options like that. That, to me, isn't exactly what I'm talking about with all this. XD Though @owotrucked covered well what I am speaking about. The depth of things that often don't get spoken about and the narrative surrounding all this. Agreed and I feel this comes back around...

The Curse of Knowledge is something I've been worrying about over the last year or so. :LOL: There's a lot I wonder if it's too obvious and not worth investing time in. I figured I should since I run into a lot of people who aren't as obsessive versed in things or are just poorly taught. Plus I...

I do wonder how soon people learn about it since I often see it come up when people start learning it. I've known about it for so long that I genuinely don't remember when I didn't know it at this point. Regardless, if just writing works for you, I say roll with it. I've found that there are...

Fair enough, everybody has their tastes and I'm not forcing anybody to do anything. I simply compile and synthesize information that isn't commonplace for those who are interested in growing.

Kudos! And yeah, there aren't any actual rules. Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. That said, craft and principles help better shape one's vision so it can be communicated to an audience. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules and just blindly fumble through things. True artistry...

Figured I'd share a bit more again from some stuff I think can help developing writers. I'm sure we've all encountered The Monomyth aka The Hero's Journey some time or another, so I made one video breaking down some issues with Joseph Campbell's theory and why it shouldn't be treated as the end...

I can see this working as a fun setup! Plus now I'm starting to think about how to go beyond this foundation, such as the limitations part. I'll have to think about it later on...

So basically, if I understand this, and am simplifying it correctly... Who Uses It: Natural Ability for Dragon Race and Spirits, Spiritual Inspiration for Everybody Else Fuel: Nature: External for those who can harness, Gods & Spirits for everybody else Concept: Negotiation-Based Magic System...

The one thing I'd disagree with is the idea that "X should check out Y if they want to learn about magic systems." Only in that, people should check out X if you want to learn about this specific brand of magic system. For instance, we can look at Stands from JoJo. It is a beloved setup due to...

Which, going from this and what I went into, using your example... 1) Falls into natural ability with the subclass of race and possibly genetics for human sages. 2) What fuels, again, nature, internal (personal abilities) example which works well with stories designed around. 3) How does it...

...That's the point of this? To point at the many patterns and make it easy to create your own magic system and determine the rules that govern it.

I made a thread previous on this first video I made, but I can't find it, so this is quicker. I've completed a series of videos on designing magic systems that can help out anybody at the beginning who is struggling or wants a new perspective on putting them together. I break it down with...

I'd pass on this one too. There's three reasons why. First, I found the pacing slow and boring early on. Starting out living his life, doing his practice stuff could be fine, but it just keeps going and going and I don't see why I should care. I kept wondering what the hook is. Then, once it...