Scarburg Meadhall Discussion Thread

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

By the way, sorry to throw a wrench into Degas' plans for the race, but I fear Lithor has a point....

Oh certainly. I wouldn't want them to lose due to such a thing, and was rather hoping it would be noted and commented upon. She can have a leg loose, of course, but who wants to make things easy the first time?

Some of the best writing advice I ever got was something like, "If it gets boring, kill off a major character."

Okay, so I hate killing off major characters. But the point of the advice centers around the necessity for tension (which can be big, like death, or little, like a mis-tied rope) and the fact that sometimes one of your characters has just gotta take one for the team in order for the story to succeed. A dramatic plot that's fun to read and write has events followed by consequences which in turn spawn more events.

Seriously, I love writing the middle section of stories. It's ending things that's hard for me... I can never seem to leave well enough alone...

Anyway... procrastinating on a midterm paper...