The Merits of Tell Don't Show
The Black Rose stood unflinchingly upright, but with all the coil and re-coil of the flesh gone out of her. She had been through too much, and all resilience had gone. She had heard the screaming....
View ArticleBeauty and the Beast retelling
So I was reading a comment where the Epistler compared Roran to Gaston in a parody song. And I suddenly realized that the parallels run deeper than we know.After all, Roran is universally admired for...
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So we’ve talked at length about how Eragon’s whole situation with his Father being Morzan, then turning out to be Brom is a really weak storyline twist made weaker by author cop out. It totally...
View ArticleEragon second draft
Okay let me just say this.Eragon {the first book} is not bad. By first draft standards.I've been working on a book for a while as a personal project. It was an idea I worked on a while ago, wrote out...
View ArticleDragons in combat
So I'm sure even if you don't follow the show, you probably know that in the latest episode of Game of Thrones the dragons wreck shit. So while it's topical, let's consider how dragons would work in...
View ArticleNon-Spoilery Review of 'Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets'
Imagine, if you will, Christopher Paolini writing a science fiction epic set in space.Imagine if that story had been turned into a movie with a big CGI budget.Now imagine the complete polar opposite of...
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Angela's True Identity
Hey, guys! You guys! OMGs, I'm like seriously you guys! LOOK WHAT I FOUND!IT STILL EXISTS! And it's every bit as embarrassing to watch as it was back in 2006! Or whenever that now long lost BBC...
View ArticleA Revised History of Alagaësia
Remember my earlier post whining about how rewriting Eragon would be pointless? Turns out, I couldn't ignore the "But what if you did rewrite it?" thought in the back of my mind, so I finally sat down...
View ArticleThought You All Might Enjoy This Literary Genius
NSFW (Language)He's since deleted his writing off of Smashwords, but I did some digging and found these little gems:"It was a French song – Place de la République by Cœur de pirate – that was playing...
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Roran's Hammer, and a Horrible Trailer
Heyo! I've now seen Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets on torylltales recommendation, and I LOVED it! Definitely recommended.In the meantime, a little bird told me about this new...
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Huffington Post Article Spork
Well this is just perfect. I came across this painfully self-congratulatory article from back in 2011, all ripe for the sporking, only to find that torylltales was “temporarily unavailable”. So we...
View ArticleBrisingr Spork, Chapter 29 - A Forest of Stone
The chapter is quite long, so the sporking is divided into subsections to make it a bit easier to read.1. Merry-makingA cheer went up from the crowd.Eragon was sitting in the wooden stands...When I...
View ArticleDid Paolini rip off the name Jarnunvosk from somewhere?
That name seems really familiar. Maybe it's because it sounds vaguely norse-ish. The J is even pronounced like a Y, according to the audio pronunciationsEdit: I just realized where I was drawing...
View ArticleKeeping the Cast Small
So I have a bit of a policy in stories. I believe that one should never create two characters when one will do. The more characters an author includes the harder it is for the reader to remember them...
View ArticleBad Movie Tropes
Thought I'd share this for fun. Jabootu is one of the seminal Bad Movie appreciation sites, and they have their own list of specalised "rules" that so many bad movies follow, quite a few of which can...
View ArticleRamsey Martin
I know a lot of you like Game of Thrones, and this LJ seems to have transitioned into a fantasy-related book thing, so I figured you might find this analysis regarding ASOIAF, its brutality, and its...
View ArticleSo what is good writing?
Game of Thrones is overblown and needlessly cynical. Harry Potter is actually pretty simple and standard. Lord of the Rings is downright boring. And almost every single word in Inheritance is inept....
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What Will Happen In Eragon 4? Chapter 7
It may have been a while, but I haven't abandoned this. To my chagrin.Nasuada: The Lady of the VardenAnother chapter title in which the female character is given some kind of epithet, where none of the...
View ArticleKarmic Deaths for the Cast of Inheritance
So I think we can all agree that the main cast of Eragon is a bunch of sociopathic karma houdinis who plunge a prosperous kingdom into darkness and set up a tyrannical puppet regime.Now, this gave me...
View ArticleHello World! Also, I'm writing a spitefic.
Greetings, fellow anti-Riders!My name is Anya, and I am just coming out of a long phase of Lurking. I've lurked on Anti-Shur'tugal, Conjugal Felicity, and ImpishIdea, but never really posted except...
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