A flourishing, wealthy country of booming trade, daring seacaptains, and mighty warriors, Zelos is ruled by Celdas Celafir, the shrewd and daunting King of the Coin, from his hilltop fortress, Khodashmindas, overlooking the bustling mining city of Alacasba. Zelos is the source of the most widely accepted currency on Ticonderos and is easily the most …
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All of the territory south of the arctic regions of the Ice-Heart Empress and Peltast’s Kingdom are referred to collectively by the northern humans and Oreiad alike as “The South,” but the Dragonscarred that dwell there subdivide those lands. There the humans refer to the dry bluffs and vast desert south of the High Mountains …
Scattered human realms, recently independent from a tyrant, warring, politicking, and backstabbing one another for control of six powerful dragon scales. In the years after the Dragonlord’s defeat, the Dragonscarred have reconsolidated power a handful of times as wars of military might as well as political and even religious ideology continued to scorch the earth …
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I don’t know what we’re yelling about. In round four of the Snowflake outlining method, I’m to expand every sentence of my one-paragraph (make that two paragraph) novel summary into a paragraph of its own. By my count that was 10 separate paragraphs. In part 1 of this round, I wrote six paragraphs, which means …
Or how we dig into the meat and potatoes. So in this round, I’m supposed to take EVERY sentence in the one-paragraph summary of the novel’s plot and write a new paragraph for EACH of them. And I wrote a two-paragraph summary in the first place. So I’ve got something like 10 new paragraphs to …
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The Shopkeeper’s Wife only has four main characters (but a ton of side and minor characters), and so after this bio write-up, I can move onto the 4th actual stage of the Snowflake outlining method which is… (looks it up)… yikes. I’m supposed to take the one-paragraph summary of my novel and expand every sentence …
This one’s for Ziegander! My twitter handle. My online handle all across the web for many years. Ziegander was a character in a “fantasy epic” I started writing when I was like 16. It wasn’t good. It revolved around swords imbued with *absolute* elemental powers over, you guessed it, Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water. And …
Fight! Ahem, ok, this is a pretty intensely involved round. I am to distinguish the main characters of the book and create a one-page sort of bio for each of them. I am compiling a dossier of main characters, if you will. So, first comes identifying the main characters from the rest of the “chaff.” …
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Well, since I’ve gotten the general descriptions for all of the major Dhogem territories in The Deeps, next up in that vein would be the minor territories, and then some zoomed in looks at specifics within the territories. However, before we get into all that, I want to give some background information on one of …
A huge, underground river flows just east of the barren tunnels at the edge of the Serpent’s Vaults, and a mighty keep rules this river, serving as massive dam, castle, and center of irrigation all at once. The Dhogem that live in this region are an odd juxtaposition — both simple-minded and cosmopolitan at once. …
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The Waybetween 