Spitefic Chapter 3: Unpleasant Learning
Alternate Title: Arya Dröttining, Worst Teacher EverThis chapter was a tricky one to write, largely because it involved condensing time while staying in the same place. It's always a bit easier to...
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Shadowed By Wings Sporking: Part One
You know how sometimes someone says they're going to spork a particular book, and then they never actually do it? That's really annoying, right?I imagine that after the delights of Touched By Venom,...
View ArticlePaolini is currently meeting with his editor in NYC.
https://mobile.twitter.com/paolini/status/912414212768489472Think it means anything?
View ArticleA Chilling Realization
In the wake of the news that Paolini is meeting with his editor about the Sci-Fi Brick, or "TSiaSoS," my brain made a rather unsettling leap. I have made some pretty bizarre mental connections in the...
View ArticleShadowed By Wings Sporking: Parts Two and Three
Part Two: Dragon Highschool – Now With Extra Jocks!Zarq has a nice long sleep, then wakes up and thinks some more about her motivations. Apparently she hopes to become a dragonmaster, and use that...
View ArticleShadowed By Wings Sporking: Part Four
Part Four: Rule One Of a Successful Relationship – Never Bogart The HeroinMorning arrives with a particularly sickening thud, cue boring unnecessary descriptions of everyone having breakfast. Zarq...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Said Bookisms in Eragon
As we all know, Christopher Paolini has a bad case of Thesaurus Syndrome. One of his most noticeable symptoms thereof is a tendency to avoid the word "said." This is a pretty common amateur mistake:...
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I have a horrible gift for you all
I can't believe I found a copy that wasn't being sold for $400 and up, but it's now sitting on my desk as I type this out. The spine is cracking it seems, but I can't tell if it's because it was...
View ArticleThe Idhún's Memories. Have you heard of it?
Hi there. It has been a while since I posted something here, I couldn't find the time to do anything more than a comment here and there.But today i wanted to share with you some thoughts about a series...
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Shadowed By Wings Sporking: Part Five
Well, it finally happened. Paolini finally came out and admitted that the Cycle really wasn't that good, and that he said some very stupid things about it back in the day. The sudden show of honesty...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Said Bookisms in Eldest
For our second round of scenery-chewing thesaurusy fun, we move on to the Red Brick. The raw number of bookisms is actually fairly similar to the Blue Brick, but there is a noticeable change in the...
View ArticleEragon: Lost In Adaptation
Easily the most well-informed video about the Eragon movie I've ever seen - unlike a lot of other people he actually read the book first. Be sure to check out the comments (which deserve to be sporked...
View ArticleHandbook For Mortals?
Since the topic of other trashcan fires of books has come up, has anyone else been hearing about the Handbook for Mortals scandal?A few months ago a book pretty much no one had heard about and no one...
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Shadowed By Wings Sporking: Part Six
Part Six: Is That a Plot I Spy?Thankfully this time we cut to after the dragon sex rather than having it described to us in detail. Zarq is taken back to her hammock by the dragonmaster (or Komikon –...
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Shadowed By Wings Sporking: Part Seven
Part Seven: Zarq Continues To Be UselessZarq carries on with the dragon sex, and does pretty well for herself because she knows a lot about dragon care – unlike the others. So she tells the jailers she...
View ArticleIs there anything about the IC you like/think Paolini did okay on?
Personally, I'm just curious what you guys think. We spend most of our time on here rightfully bashing IC (because it deserves it), so I'm interested if there's anything you think Paolini did alright,...
View ArticleDave Muses on Some Stuff
So, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the saying that you’re your own worst critic may not be entirely true. Or at least, not true all the time. I freely admit that I could very well be wrong...
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Eragon Fan Film
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/superlerty/eragon-fan-web-film?ref=project_tweetThey're gonna film this masterpiece in Montana. Maybe I can be an extra!
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How to make perfect characters perfectly fine characters
There is a character who was written by a young author to be the insufferably genius archetype. The character was unpleasant and arrogant. Constantly talking about how inferior everyone else is and how...
View ArticleWriting advice: Reconciling character traits with their development
So right now I'm working on a sci-fi novel with a friend of mine. We're hoping for it to be our love letter to sci-fi the way TSiaSoS is to Chris – but, you know, with less plagiarism, poor writing,...
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