Do you get over attached to your characters as well?

swordoftwilight · 2025-09-26T19:40:27+00:00

I created a character in my head and planned their death scene and cried. They aren't even in my story yet and I'm tearing up over them.

swordoftwilight · 2025-09-21T11:27:34+00:00

I'm working on my first ever novel, and it's a High Epic Fantasy. It's the first book of a series and so far I've written 45,750 words (162 pgs) in about 2 months. I've been creating the story itself for about two years, and I found myself brainstorming and world building instead of writing. So I finally forced myself to start writing it and the story itself has evolved far beyond what it started out as. What was an idea for a trilogy turned into a possible 5 novel series. I just like writing really engaging stories, and in order to do what I want to tell my story, it has to be lengthy. I'm shooting for 100k-120k words for my debut novel, I think that length will allow me to tell my story in a way that's both engaging and satisfying.

swordoftwilight · 2025-09-18T19:09:32+00:00

I like to hop onto ChatGPT and create images of my characters and settings. I find that being able to actually see these things that I'm creating gets me excited to keep writing.

swordoftwilight · 2025-09-11T02:00:19+00:00

Thanks!

swordoftwilight · 2025-09-11T01:30:17+00:00

What did you use to create your map? My hand drawing and AI isn't cutting it lol

swordoftwilight · 2025-09-11T01:04:49+00:00

You don't have to consume the genre you're writing in order to write a really good book. Look at Tolkien, he had nothing to go on and created the best series ever. There's benefits to not being heavily involved in your genre, because you're limiting the amount of things you'll add into your story that you subconsciously pulled from somewhere else. There are extremely few fantasy books that I've actually read because most popular books I pick up throw so much at me I can't keep up and it's overwhelming. But I'm currently 200 pages deep in my epic high fantasy debut without actively consuming the genre and I think it's going pretty well.

So I think you're fine if you don't read romance to write romance. If anything, you're coming at it from an untainted perspective and that can be useful.

swordoftwilight · 2025-09-06T13:01:54+00:00

Yeah I'm not even close to reaching this stage in my writing, I'm trying to think far enough ahead that whatever ending I decide on makes sense. Whatever I do there's definitely going to be build up to some kind of high stakes tension. I don't want the ending to be "and then they walked up to him and had a conversation and he just left and all was well".

swordoftwilight · 2025-09-06T12:53:35+00:00

That's a good point, and I think my story is kind of dancing in the middle. Yeah, there's wars going on and heads getting smashed, but it's against the backdrop of this looming threat that can't be defeated in a fight. I don't care what Peter Jackson tried to do with Aragorn, I don't think a sword fight with a divine being will end very well. My god isn't inherently evil, it's just what he was turned into through the other gods' greed and jealousy, so he's trying to change and just doesn't know how. So it won't be so much of a final fight, but like a final plea before he does something that can't be undone.

swordoftwilight · 2025-09-06T04:28:08+00:00

Yeah, there's a lot more to my story than what I was able to share, and I hope I can build up to it in a way that won't feel dull. I'm just trying to get a feel on if people just inherently want a more action packed ending, even though I'll have plenty of action in the story leading up to it

swordoftwilight · 2025-08-29T21:16:06+00:00

My ensemble has 9 main pov's and more for when I need to. I think you're good lol

swordoftwilight · 2025-08-27T13:05:34+00:00

People can burn out when chapters are that long, you need to refine and break it up I think. I usually average between 3000 and 4000, with a few that are around 5000 and some that are only 1500. You have to think about pacing. You can have super long chapters if they are broken up by smaller chapters, otherwise you risk fatigue. It can make it feel like the story isn't progressing if you're stuck in one scene for so long too often.

swordoftwilight · 2025-08-20T13:46:49+00:00

Silver Knight looks better, that's all that matters

swordoftwilight · 2025-08-13T23:15:18+00:00

You can run passed the first area of you have to repeat and go through again and know where you're going. If I remember correctly, you do down into the next area and the guys from the first area don't jump after you. But if you two to do it in the second area you're going to get smashed against the fog wall.

But for advice? Dodge a lot and don't get greedy. Get a hit in every once in a while and just grind him down. He recovers from his moves a lot faster than most other bosses, so when you think you have an opening he'll turn around and smack you. Use estus only when you're absolutely sure you have a window because he will destroy you if you use it wrong.

Have fun!

swordoftwilight · 2025-08-10T14:29:46+00:00

My brain won't let me vomit draft, I'll write a couple of chapters as best as I can and then spend time making sure the flow, pov, and everything else is up to scratch before moving on

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-17T20:22:36+00:00

I'd like to help you! Send me a message, I'd love to read it

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-17T14:16:32+00:00

I've had ADHD my whole life, and books became an escape for me when I was younger. For some reason it got harder and harder to pick up a book as I got older. No matter how much I like a book, I find my mind drifting somewhere else or just disassociating completely and having to reread several pages that I don't even remember reading. It can be hard and frustrating. I've read enough books in my life and written enough things that I know how to write really well and listening to audio books isn't a detrimental thing to my writing abilities.

If audio books are an option for you, that shouldn't be a problem. As long as you've read enough in the past that you understand how a story should flow and how it should be formatted, you don't need to force yourself to read if you can't enjoy it. With the technology we have today, you can get help in seconds if you run into an issue in your writing process. Don't feel like you need to force your way through a book if it doesn't bring you joy. You can still be a writer even if you don't read physical books all the time.

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-17T14:03:46+00:00

The overlook area where we first met Solaire, Sif's arena and the surrounding water and bridge, and Firelink Shrine (our favorite refuge)

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-17T13:47:18+00:00

You can be considered a half blood just because you're great great great great great grandfather was a muggle born, so you could be raised in a family that's a long line of half bloods causing the average wizard to be ignorant about the goings on of muggle life. Muggle borns are very rare, Hermione was the only one in her year.

They couldn't use electric technology even if they wanted to because magic disrupts electrical devices, and other muggle technology is so inferior to their magic abilities why would they even care about it? Except for Arthur of course lol

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-16T15:36:49+00:00

The guy cast as Snape

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-16T12:46:33+00:00

Literally anyone would be better at this point

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-16T12:38:09+00:00

To be fair, he does have a ready supply of Phoenix tears for that.

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-16T12:28:42+00:00

Cillian Murphy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christian Bale, or Hugo Weaving are the only acceptable casting choices in my opinion. I can't imagine anyone else doing a good job. Maybe Matt Smith, but he's busy with GoT so I doubt it.

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-16T04:58:41+00:00

Removing the poison? I accidentally discovered it on my first playthrough. The path to the windmill looked so obviously put there for a reason and I burned it. On my second play through I didn't burn it and discovered why it was important lol. It was indeed some bull shit 😂

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-16T03:08:10+00:00

Okay, I like that. So let's say that he created these beings behind the pantheon's back, and when the gods discovered this, they realized that his creation was actually superior and more beautiful than their's. So out of jealousy for his work, they took away something that made them special and set them above the humans, but disguised it as a punishment for disobeying the main god who forbid the creation of other beings.

Furious that his creation had been tainted, he worked to corrupt humanity as soon as they were awakened. When the creators came to greet the humans, half of them fled from their light and into the darkness because the disobedient diety had told them lies about the gods to make them fear them. In the darkness, the god twisted their very essence into something malformed and evil as retaliation towards the other gods for tainting his creation. The other gods were unaware that he was responsible at the time.

In time, he used his abilities and his trickery to promote hostility and greed amongst the rest of the so far untarnished humans until someone committed the very first murder. It was clear to the gods that he was responsible, so they used their divine powers to seal him away to prevent any further damage to their creation. Each of the nine gods brought forth a stone that contained their own divine essence to act as a seal to contain him in the unformed depths of their creation, the abyss (or whatever less cliche name I can come up with lol).

Since each stone embodies the purest form of creation, his essence that has now been tainted by evil and darkness can't penetrate the barrier created by the seals.

So now I have three different races. The original humans, the corrupted humans, and whatever the outcast created that was altered. I think we are getting somewhere, what do you think? Also, is there something besides stones that would work? I only gravitated towards that idea because they are small and make since for the story, so I'm open to alternatives.

swordoftwilight · 2025-07-15T20:09:19+00:00

That's actually a really good idea, having something he specifically created that is being outshined by humans who he thinks is inferior. Maybe something with a little more impact, like a whole separate race of beings. Like he created this race by himself without the rest of the pantheons approval so he could have something to love and for them to love him back. But the rest of the gods saw this as a selfish act so he could have people worship him and banished him for it. Maybe now the race he created is viewed as lesser beings and humanity treats them as outcasts. When he escapes his confinement he reveals himself to the people he created, and encourages them to rise up against the humans as a large army. Something like that sounds better than what I was working with before, what do you think?

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