Writing goals

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

Barely any, actually. Only what you've written here and in the prompt thread since you dragged me in.

Interesting...
That's what the average person gets of her but I forget that because of all the info dumps and private conversations I've had with others

 

[notabitail]

Interesting...
That's what the average person gets of her but I forget that because of all the info dumps and private conversations I've had with others

What I've gathered is that she's a dragon of some sort, small, and friends with a human named Stephen. Did I get that right?

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

What I've gathered is that she's a dragon of some sort, small, and friends with a human named Stephen. Did I get that right?

All of those things aren't half obvious thanks to many of my pfps but yes

I think you did ask for her backstory once and I basically ignored you

 

[notabitail]

All of those things aren't half obvious thanks to many of my pfps but yes

I think you did ask for her backstory once and I basically ignored you

I did.

 

[Eroica]

Info-dumping is a huge pet peeve of mine and seems to be trendy at the moment. Nothing shuts a book faster for me than starting out with, "I gazed onto the horizon, still haunted by the twelve years I spent in an orphanage after my father was killed in the war of Analondo, having given his last coins to purchase my Minkpapa, or Moon Stone, which channels my innate energies into prismatic rainbows that lure the Enchipis, or fairy pupae, to my side for battle against the Gwarks of Rivenwarp."

Honestly, this is what I used to do and I still HATE myself for it. There was like literally FIVE STINKING PARAGRAPHS about my terrible main character (which, by the way, I discarded because she was a Mary Sue - do any of you have problems with "Mary-Sue" type characters?)

 

[thecatumbrella]

Honestly, this is what I used to do and I still HATE myself for it. There was like literally FIVE STINKING PARAGRAPHS about my terrible main character (which, by the way, I discarded because she was a Mary Sue - do any of you have problems with "Mary-Sue" type characters?)

I did at first! It took a little time for me to figure out my flawed characters were more fun to write (and generally more interesting).