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Yr Friendly New Maintainer
Hello all! quenbolyn has tasked me with looking after the community since her life is currently a whirlwind. As a maintainer, I can do pretty much everything that she can. She mentioned posts are...
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Shadowed By Wings Sporking: The Eighth and Final Part
Part Eight: ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? Kratt comes by for another visit, looking typically self-important. He announces that Zarq has been given the go-ahead to fight in the Arena (the suspense was...
View ArticleWWHiE4: Chapter 8
What Will Happen In Eragon Book 4? Chapter 8: For Whom The Egg HatchesInstead of the many far more important things I need to be doing, I’m here, going through this chapter. Because I made a (rather...
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So one of the things I can do is create new tags for the community to use. Comment here with what you want. I will tag THIS entry with every new tag I make so that you can see at a glance what I've...
View ArticleHow Has Christopher Paolini Helped You With Your Own Writing?
This community is going on twelve years now, I think, and it's clear that Paolini has been influential to a lot of people, for better or worse. The root of Anti-Shur'tugal did stem from frustrated...
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Brisingr Spork Chapter 34: Glumra
This chapter was originally assigned to vehkandvehk, but s/he has apparently vanished into the ether and hasn’t answered any of my PMs, so I’ve ganked the chapter for myself, greedy bastard that I...
View ArticleWhat tropes are you sick of?
Hey, I hear people like these topics. Let's have one here (not exclusive to stuff Paolini has done).
View ArticleWhat tropes do you want to see more of?
So opposite positive thread this time. What tropes do you think are underplayed or are generally too good to ever get old? Personally I'm quite partial to the Evil Matriarch. Motherhood being so...
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If this is any indication of Paolini's idea of sci-fi, the spec-fic community is going to rip him to shreds. Technobabble went out of fashion decades ago.And Paolini has claimed he's written a 'hard'...
View ArticleBeyond Tropes...What Do You Want To Improve In Your Own Writing?
Out of the oven and into the frying pan...So, writers, let's have at it. Nobody's perfect, and we all have a specific goal in mind when it comes to our own writing. What's your weak points? What have...
View ArticlePaolini Twitter Ridiculousness
There have been a few threads discussing specific posts on Christopher Paolini's Twitter account recently, but nothing really looking at said account as a whole. Which is a shame, because it is a...
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Anti-Shur'tugal Cards Against Humanity
In a conversation with theepistler, the topic of Cards Against Humanity came up. Because I am a mature, functioning adult, I immediately started generating ideas for custom cards based on mokcing the...
View ArticleHow Long Have You Been Writing? What Are You Working On Now?
People have mentioned their own writing attempts in our previous threads, so let's keep the ball rolling. For those who are currently writers, how many years have you been writing? Can you tell us...
View ArticleYour Thoughts on NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month is, in its own words:A fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing.On November 1, participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by...
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Forged By Fire Sporking: Introduction and Part One
Well, here we are – the third and (thankfully) final book of the, uh, epic saga that is Touched by Venom and its sequels. It was published in 2007, after which it would seem either the publisher or the...
View ArticleWriting Prompt: New Flesh for Old Bones - the Wise Old Mentor
Since more writers are coming out of the woodwork and we're all enjoying chatting about our projects, I thought it'd be fun to try a writing prompt. Let's take a worn trope and see what we can do to...
View ArticleCards Against Humanity update
Thanks to some excellent suggestions and probably a bit too much time spent on my part, the Anti-Shur'tugal Cards Against Humanity deck now has 43 black cards and 118 white cards and counting. Since...
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"New" Q&A, October 2017
In his continued desperation to remain relevant in the lead-up to his Space Opera being rejected by a publisher, Paolini has had his team cobble together another "new" Q&A article from the rotting...
View ArticleWhat Are The Biggest Problems With the Traditional Publishing Industry? How...
So, a lot of the problems in this site can be traced back to the traditional publishing industry giving lots of marketing push behind people whose works fail to live up to the hype, and sometimes miss...
View ArticleHow do dwarf communities organise food supplies?
In the last Brisingr-spork chapter we briefly discussed the oddness of the food in Glumra's home, and how the dwarves in Farthen Dur would keep supplied with eggs, and that got me thinking about the...
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