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I am planning to order something from Amazon and I was wondering should I buy that IC coloring book? I will do a sporking once I get it (I am not sure when it is going to arrive but it will definitely...
View ArticleHomeschooling experiences
Since CP came to the publishing world and popularized himself as a homeschooled,published literature prodigy, I've been interested in how homeschooling works. I haven't seen much people been...
View ArticlePNet update
Well,well! It looks like our old friend,CP, is going to the Denver Comic Con soon and he's gonna make appearances from 30/6/17 to 2/7/17 giving writing advice as talks and signing copies of books that...
View ArticleThe Saga of Murtagh: Finding of the Egg
Hey, everyone, I’ve got the next chapter of the Saga of Murtagh done. Enjoy!Murtagh crept through the forests, moving past a hare without it noticing his passing. Supposedly there were ghosts and other...
View ArticleTournament of lost potential: Main Characters Semifinals
Sorry, it has been quite a while. I have had some domestic problems, but I managed to finish this. However, this round became so huge that I had to split it in two for the sake of making them shorter...
View ArticleThoughts on the Science Fiction Novel
I was just doing some snooping on the sci-fi book, and apparently about a day ago Paolini mentioned on his Twitter that he just sent the manuscript to his agent, who made some observations that he's...
View ArticleArticle 2
WOW you guys have been busy while I was away. It's great to see some new blood really getting into it and contributing some great ideas and discussions.Anyway, I'm back from my trip, having had the...
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If only it was that easy...(Oh wait - for some people it totally is. *coughMatthewReillycough*)
View ArticleThe Hero's Journey
When confronted about his blatant plot theft from Star Wars, a young Paolini countered that in fact he'd just used the same template George Lucas used - that is, The Hero's Journey - and it was all a...
View ArticleEragon Game Review
I remembered watching this TV review of the movie tie-in game for the PC back in the day, and went looking for it. Lo and behold it's still on YouTube, and still utterly hilarious!Has anyone here...
View ArticleGetting-To-Know-You
Seeing as we've got so many new people here lately, I thought it would be fun to play a classic getting-to-know-you middle management team building game: Two truths and a lie!Seeing as many of us...
View ArticleWhat Will Happen In Eragon IV: Chapter 4: Roran
Okay. Eleven pages. I can do this.*deep breath*…I wanted to be able to pull out funny and inaccurate and badly phrased quotes to comment on, but this is just pages upon pages of rambling and rehashing...
View ArticleTaking Criticism - Terrible Writing Advice
https://youtu.be/-v4R2ZcxPlAI can think of so many classic examples of people behaving badly on our comm and beyond, so thought I'd share for a chuckle or two!
View ArticleThe Saga of Murtagh: The Hatching
Chapter Three of the Saga of Murtagh coming right up.Murtagh made his way back from the spine and back to the Palancar Valley. Not exactly home, but the place where he was currently living. By the time...
View ArticleYet Another Newbie
I'm not sure how often I'll be active here (Curse you internet for being something you gotta pay a lot of money for!) or how I'd contribute to the community (I've seen how bad the IC is, but I'm not...
View ArticleArticle 1
Okay, so here is a thought:The last three books of the Inheritance Cycle should have been all one novel.Oh yeah, I went there.Let me just see if I can write this out:In the aftermath of the battle of...
View ArticleTrouble with subplots
After four years of not writing fanfiction (and mostly writing one-shots when I did write fanfic), I'm finally setting out to write a multi-chapter fic. I've already learned I don't do well without an...
View ArticleOveranalysis: Magic has to be sentient
So I’m pretty sure that Christopher Paolini said at some point that magic itself isn’t sentient. This simply cannot be. It has to be sentient since it being able to make choices is the only possible...
View ArticleBit of cross-promotion: ImpishIdea
For those of you who are newish and didn't know, ImpishIdea is (one of) our sister website(s), born in the fires of our collective anti-[bad books] rage, since evolved into a literary criticism and...
View ArticleThe Fluid Nature of Paolini's characterization
The Fluid nature of Paolini’s characterization:Something I noticed when I read Eragon through to half way through the Black Brick is that characters personalities have an uncanny tendency to shift...
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