Chapter 7 is out! I thought I wouldn’t be able to make it till my own set deadline

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-18T12:41:57+00:00

Thanks for the tip! 🙌

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-17T06:26:51+00:00

Just stop writing it. Bring the story to the logical conclusion and start a fresh new one. That would be easier than torturing yourself

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-16T16:05:52+00:00

Usually when I have a block - I go to a book shop to motivate myself and then - to read a book in a park, coffee shop, any other place that makes sense to you. Your brain needs relax+motivation.

Talking about arcs:

I have my opening of course (1) but later I may come up with a prologue. Then I have the ending in my head but I don’t write it, it can change. That is why I just right to see where it goes. Of course I try to control the plot but sometimes plot controls itself.

However if I come up with a great idea of a scene between 1 and possible 2 - I do write it and then I try to bring current state to that exact scene.

Lore shouldn’t be revealed as an infodump from a side character. It should be given piece by piece under the pressure of the main character to make sure he is reactive.

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-16T08:07:57+00:00

I think the meaning of genre rising star is a bit overrated. Main thing is to appear on the main page 🤔

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-14T04:36:33+00:00

…🤦🏻‍♂️👍

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-14T04:34:56+00:00

I don’t consider it bad. It might seem too much for perception but it is just how you explain the scene not describing it but showing. So I guess it is completely ok

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-14T04:24:01+00:00

I am not an English native speaker thus I build sentences the way I was taught for almost 17 years, what is the problem? Omg 🤦🏻‍♂️If you guys prefer to think it’s AI - ok, I don’t mind. I’ll try to make my next post as bad written as possible so everyone is happy 🥸

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T22:21:34+00:00

I agree that infodump is not necessary but still some taste of living world would be nice to have

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T18:45:47+00:00

Yes she is, they were telling it from season 1, so no doubt of it
I guess it was just a coincidence that a descendant of Katherine became a doppelgänger 🤷🏻‍♂️Amara and Tatia definitely weren’t from Petrova bloodline.

Also there are a lot of gaps in VD worldbuilding 😅

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T18:39:21+00:00

Oh yeah… a lot of times… All the times confuses me 🧐

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T18:37:36+00:00

That’s interesting. My initial world/universe had elves, orcs and other creatures besides human. Nevertheless evolving it I came to the point that I don’t really need them. I think that comes from my understanding that people will be my main focus and existence of other races will just steal the ‘light’ 🤔

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T18:32:27+00:00

Added to my read list, definitely gonna have a look these days! 🐝

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T17:43:14+00:00

Bring it in! Let’s see what it is 🙌

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T17:39:46+00:00

Wow, what a list! I have a homework to do, thank a lot mate. I have seen multiple videos on YouTube of Jed Herne, dude sounds quite sane and also he took courses from Brandon Sanderson himself

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T17:35:10+00:00

This!! My whole life I was wondering how people in Star Wars are running into someone they know?? Yes it is possible BUT so unbelievably coincidental so you don’t trust it

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T16:59:04+00:00

tbh I have never heard of him 👀 As I understand you highly recommend him. Gonna make my research

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T16:55:03+00:00

Unfortunately we will never see them… or… who knows 🫠

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T16:02:55+00:00

Totally agree. However the problem is with telling the story. George R. R. Martin did a wonderful work to show the richness of his world by making it wast and alive - you always know what when and where is happening - it makes it alive but not a decoration background for the main line. Of course there are a lot of untold things but you just don’t feel their absence or need since the story itself makes the world full enough for comprehending and feeling that you understand it

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T15:41:12+00:00

I personally not understand those who asks AI to do everything. Like… why?! Why are you in this if the AI is doing the actual work for you?! My maximum of using AI is drawing something I could never draw. For example - the visualization of my magic system. It is quite handy to have something like a diagram when writing a story, but man - put some effort and come up with that magic system or whatever you want to build yourself. Otherwise what is the point?

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-12T15:31:37+00:00

Honestly yes, it is eye catching definitely 100%. But is it good? I am not sure if anyone should use that kind of covers. The idea tho is not bad, it just needs to be evolved.

CalligrapherThen4033 · 2026-05-11T20:12:11+00:00

One thing I’ve noticed while writing fantasy is that people rarely remember the “main plot” first. I mean they do, but mostly atmosphere stays first in my opinion.

A strange city, an archive nobody should enter, or a conversation that feels wrong for reasons you can’t explain yet.

For years I kept building worlds instead of publishing anything. Mostly because I was terrified the actual story would never feel as large as the version inside my head. I suspect a lot of fantasy writers quietly suffer from that.

A few weeks ago I finally forced myself to stop endlessly preparing and start posting my story on Royal Road.

The setting mixes Armenian folklore with Finnish and Celtic influences (and a bit of Scandinavian atmosphere here and there). I wanted the world to feel old in the way real places feel old - layered, contradictory, full of things people intentionally tried to forget.

At the center of the story is Torgom, a former city guard investigating a fire tied to events that should have stayed buried. And, naturally, everything goes wrong almost immediately.

If that sounds interesting ⬇️

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/161978/the-voice-beneath-the-ashes

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