(I know this one was supposed to be a treatise, but I figured this would be a more dynamic way of providing the same information)
2023-02-08 03:11:13 +0000 UTC View PostPlease choose one topic from each of the lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your two chosen topics in the comments below. Voting will end at 11:59 PM PST on January 21st.
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2023-01-08 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNot every good story needs an antagonist, but most do. So long as the story itself has an protagonist whom the audience is supposed to relate to or empathise with, and a goal which that protagonist wants to achieve, that narrative also needs something which prevents the protagonist from achieving that goal, something which th...
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There are obviously many ways to categorise the history of battle: in the identities of the dominant powers of a given time or region, in the type of weapons used, of the sort of tactics, strategies, and so on. Add to that the fact that these immediate factors are determined by the nature of the societies which the combatants...
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So, now we've set up the conditions for your battle, gathered the armies, plotted their lines of march, determined their campaign objectives, and put them on a collision course with each other, it's time actually write the fighting, right?
Well, not quite.
Before we do that, we have to dip back out into what might...
2022-11-10 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSorry this month's updates took a bit longer than expected. It's been a tough week here. However, I did get this month's articles done within a reasonable time frame, and things should be cleared up for next month.
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So far, we've talked quite a bit about writing fight scenes. However, there's a certain and rather considerable difference between writing a one-on-one fight or a limited brawl and writing mass combat between two armies or other large groups of belligerents. Naturally, this is something I'm rather familiar with. It's probably...
2022-10-10 05:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for October's articles.
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Not every story needs fight scenes, but a lot of them do, and for good reason. After all, a fight is one of the most direct and efficient expressions of external conflict which any narrative medium allows. It is an almost pure expression of a conflict between one character, faction, or concept against another, whether they be...
2022-09-07 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for September's articles.
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So, you've put together your setting. You've assembled your institutions, defined your classes, and figured out how they relate to each other. You've got yourself a religion (or multiple religions), an economic system, and even a military structure. You have, by every definition, put together a three-dimensional, internally c...
2022-08-07 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for August's articles.
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... 2022-07-08 07:10:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis month, I'll be handling something that's sort of a continuation of both the subjects I've talked about before. Going forward from last month, I'll be continuing to talk about how worldbuilding ought to be used in storytelling - but I'll be focusing in particular on the subject of the worldbuilding we discussed as the top...
2022-07-07 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for July's articles.
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Because of the delays caused by my hard drive failing, I'm going to move ...
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