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Post by HopeAnnSchmidt on Jun 28, 2015 12:27:49 GMT -5
Stuck on an idea, or want advice on a scene you've written? This is the place for you.
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Post by HopeAnnSchmidt on Jul 3, 2015 6:50:12 GMT -5
I'm working on an idea for Sleeping Beauty and I came up with this prophecy (I love prophecies). Anyway, what do you think of the rhythm?
The valley gleamed white
The fire blazed bright
The mist bound tight
And a shout from the height
Heralds your doom as in their plight
The love of twins sets all to right
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Post by rebeccamorgan on Jul 4, 2015 16:02:08 GMT -5
That sounds prefect Hope.  I like prophecies too. No, I LOVE prophecies. It's so much fun to try and figure them out. I just have a hard time writing them myself. |
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Post by SierraJoanne on Jul 5, 2015 15:52:40 GMT -5
I really like the prophecy! |
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Post by HopeAnnSchmidt on Jul 6, 2015 12:47:31 GMT -5
I love prophecies...and have them in most of my fantasy books. They can be a pain to write though. The first two lines of the prophecy above came while I was in bed one night.  |
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Post by SisterofSix on Jul 8, 2015 1:30:54 GMT -5
I don't like writing prophecies (I tried once and I'm terrible), but I love reading them because I have fun trying to figure out what they mean.
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Post by SisterofSix on Jul 19, 2015 7:31:58 GMT -5
Concerning character deaths:
Suppose there is a certain character that everyone really likes in a story I am writing. This character is the Main Character's younger brother. The MC has had a lot of bad things happen to her, mostly involving the loss of loved ones. It is not absolutely necessary to the plot to kill her younger brother, but it is necessary to have her think that he is dead at a certain point. I have thought of many ways I could do that, but I'm still hesitant about whether or not I should actually kill him.
What do you guys think? I know a lot of authors now days are killing everybody's favorite characters, but should I? Or would it be a needless death and just cause useless emotional turmoil in the reader?
Extra Question (and spoiler alert to anyone who has not read all the Hunger Games books yet): Would it be too much of a Finnick sort of death and who agrees with me that he should have lived?
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Post by HopeAnnSchmidt on Jul 19, 2015 10:47:43 GMT -5
It sounds like a 'Finnick death' to me. Unless there is a reason he should die, I wouldn't kill him. Some death is necessary in some books, but I try not to kill too many favorite characters. Besides, it is so much fun when a character is thought to be dead and turns up alive at his own funeral or something like that. |
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Post by ivyrose on Jul 19, 2015 18:19:37 GMT -5
I agree with Hope. My favorite is when I think a character is dead but he or she turns up alive.
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Post by rebeccamorgan on Jul 19, 2015 22:01:26 GMT -5
I love it too when a character is supposed dead and turns up alive, making a grand entrance like Aragorn (although that didn't happen in the books). But sometimes the favorite character (who is usually the hero) has to die, because the hero doesn't always live. And that's what made him a hero. He was willing to sacrifice for other people.
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Post by SisterofSix on Jul 19, 2015 23:44:58 GMT -5
Thanks guys! I think I will have everyone think he's dead and then he pops up later on. I could have some fun with it.
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Post by HopeAnnSchmidt on Jul 23, 2015 7:25:06 GMT -5
Question. In one of my books (King's Armor) I have a character (Cyth) who is courting another character (Analissa). Cyth is on a trip for most of the book and a friend suggested I have Analissa give him something before he leaves, so there is some sort of sensory object for him to see, touch, and smell (maybe), as he remembers her through the story. I also want it to be useful or have some sort of meaning. And it would be even better if it was an item he could give back to her at their betrothal (spoiler...but it wasn't like you couldn't have predicted it). In any case, does anyone have an idea what this item should be?
Oh, and this books takes place in a fantasy world...and I don't want the item to be a handkerchief. That belongs in a Jane Austen book, but I don't think it would fit here.
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Post by rebeccamorgan on Jul 23, 2015 10:26:42 GMT -5
In the book I'm reading now (Oath of the Brotherhood), Conor gives Aine his necklace when he leaves. They are not courting, they just love each other.
Oath of the Brotherhood is a Christian Scottish Fantasy. The necklace Conor gives Aine is a symbol of the Christian faith.
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Post by ErudessaAranduriel on Jul 23, 2015 12:30:35 GMT -5
Yeah a piece of jewelry is what I thought of too.
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Post by HopeAnnSchmidt on Jul 23, 2015 14:40:58 GMT -5
Jewelry could work...though he gets captured and anything he has would be taken unless he hid it somehow (which is a possibility, I suppose).
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I like prophecies too. 
