Activity for Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
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| Edit | Post #14358 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Original writing is lost when using other people's ideas? The only works that are truly original are by people who've never had any contact with other people. Every work has inspiration from other works, or ideas that are present in other places. Many excellent works don't even have novel plots. As for legal repercussions, "ideas" are not protected by law.... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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A: Changing main character within a trilogy, is a good idea? George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" kills off many important characters as the story progresses, and characters you might have thought were the main protagonist or the "hero" are frequently dead by the end of the book. This works because there are lots of characters and so there are at lea... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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A: How to release a heavy revision to a series without upsetting readers? Presumably each book contains a certain set of important facts, ideas, exercises, etc. Let's call the first editions books 1.0, 2.0, etc, and the second editions books 1.1, 2.1, etc. If you want a reader to be able to go from book 4.0 to 5.1, then 5.1 needs to contain a chapter that summarizes the ch... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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A: Use of real-world languages in a fantasy world I have seen books where the author prefaces the book by saying it's a translation of some other-worldly book, and then goes on to use real-world languages as a stand-in for the in-world languages. Tolkien did this to a minor degree when he used some more archaic English words for the Rohirrim, whose... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |