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I know castle fairfax has got to be so fucking cold in winter and luciens out here, sleeves rolled up, and for what??? Child murder????

#text #fable

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when your tiny pipsqueak sister grows up to be 6 foot something and strong enough to bench press a horse

#art #fable

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come get your silly man guys

#art #fable

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All the torso animated studies.

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Some headcanons/worldbuilding on different Will line types:

Runic style: Reflects an academic approach to learning Will, through structured training and intense study not only of practical application, but also of the science of arcane forces. 

Feral or “Veins” style: Reflects a free-form study of Will, for practical application. Appears in the self-taught; very common after the fall of the Guild and decline of Heroic population. Even during Guild times, this style would appear on people that spontaneously manifested Will without training, as a defense mechanism or expression of inner turmoil, strength of mind, or pride.

Charge-activated style: Similar to Veins, this style reflects an untrained manifestation of Will, facilitated by gauntlets and meant for practical application. Because the task of drawing Will out from within the user falls mostly on the gauntlets, the user will take significantly more time to be permanently marked. As a result, these lines will appear only while they’re charging a spell or flourish, when the user is focusing their energy on one point. Instead of manifesting only on the user’s skin, it appears on top of clothes and armor as well. It should also be noted that any tatoos a gauntlet-user has will glow permanently, which is theorized to be because marking the skin gives the user’s Will a channel to flow through. 

#outstanding #fable

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How I turned an idea into an outline

With NaNoWriMo around the corner, I thought I might show you how I plotted my novel.

This is the story structure I used:

0% inciting incident

0%-20% introduction in the world, ends with a point of no return

20% first plot point: the hero receives his marching orders

20%-50% response to the first plot point

35% first pinch point: reminder of the nature of the antagonistic force

50% midpoint: big fat plot twist that changes the hero’s AND reader’s experience

50%-80% attack: the stakes are higher now

65% second pinch point: again reminding the reader of the antagonistic forces at hand

80% second plot point: the final injection of new information into the story to give the hero everything she needs to become the primary catalyst in the story’s conclusion (no new information past this point)

80%-100% resolution + final conflict + return home

I didn’t make this up. I think it’s by Larry Brooks, if The Internet informs me correctly. Fun Fact: once you pay attention to it, you’ll see this structure everywhere. Just take a look at any Harry Potter book, for example.

These points are the “bones” of my story. Next, I decided what “flesh” to put on them.

I simply made a list of things I like to read about:

Books about books and libraries

Magic

Quirky characters

Intelligent, fast-paced and sometimes silly

So, I combined this list and the structure points into a story that makes sense. Because I don’t want to spoil my plot / I am still to shy about my wip, I will make up a new plot for this post, so I can show you.

0%: The hero does something magical without knowing how she did it. She discards it, because everybody knows it can’t have been real.

0%-20%: We see the daily life of the hero: she is unhappy because all she wants to do is read, but she is not allowed to. She reads in the dead of night and is punished for it by her evil stepcousin. She finds a book on magic.

20% It all clicks together: she can do magic!

20%-50% The daily life for the hero changes. Instead of reading all night, she practices magic. She now loves books even more. She has little victories over her evil stepcousin, but hasn’t won yet.

35% The evil stepcousin finds out that she can do magic and takes away the magic book.

50% She discovers she can do magic without the book.

50%-80% The hero is not the only one who is bullied by the evil stepcousin. Her younger cousin is a victim as well, and he doesn’t have magic to defend himself. The stakes are raised, this is bigger than herself now. The younger cousin also wants to read, so they have several bonding moments over reading.

65% The evil stepcousin hurts the younger cousin, he’s in a coma now.

80% The hero discovers the evil stepcousin could do all these evil things because he knows magic too.

80%-100% The hero confronts the evil stepcousin, fights him off, nearly loses but wins in the end. He gives up and releases his power over the younger cousin who wakes up from the coma.

It’s not the most genius plot ever, but I literally made this up in minutes. So can you! And imagine the genius plot you can come up with if you spend more than a few minutes on it.

Then I calculated how many scenes I need in which part of the story. My wip is a YA or 12+ book, so I want it to contain about 75,000 words in total. I want my scenes to be around 1,000 words long to keep it snappy, so I need 75 scenes.

Scene number 1 (0%) is the inciting incident, scene number 15 (20%) is the first plot point, scene number 26 (35%) is the first pinch point, scene number 37 (50%) is the midpoint, scene number 49 (65%) is the second pinch point, scene number 60 (80%) is the second plot point and scene 75 (100%) is the last scene.

Some sidenotes on the 1,000-word scenes:

That’s more of a vague rule of thumb than a strict rule. If your scene needs to be longer or shorter, make it longer or shorter of course. My wip has some 2,300-word scenes as well.

Having 1,000-word scenes does not mean I have 1,000-word chapters, that would be really short. I will divide my novel into chapters after I’m finished writing my first draft.

For NaNoWriMo, maybe you could write scenes of 1,667 words, so you do one scene per day. A 50,000-word novel has 30 scenes of 1,667 words. Inciting incident is at scene 1, first plot point at scene 6, first pinch point at scene 11, midpoint at scene 15, second pinch point at scene 20, second plot point at scene 24 and scene 30 is your last scene. That’s just an idea, you got to see what works for you.

Then I made up in one sentence what will happen in every scene. For example: “They meet the dragon and he sends them on a sidequest.” Now my outline consists of 75 one-sentence scenes. This way, I prevent the problem of the sagging middle and other pacing problems and I still get to surprise myself when writing.

From those one-sentence scenes, I flesh out every scene into a first draft, using the process I described in my post How I never have to face an empty page when I write.

And that’s my first draft! I hope everything is clear. Feel free to ask me questions if it isn’t.

I’m gonna tag a few people I admire, who I hope are interested. If you aren’t, feel free to ignore me, or message me to take you off my tag list. If you would like to be added to my writing advice tag list, let me know.

Keep reading

#writing resources

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This website would be so funny in the death note universe I think some of you guys would be really pro Kira

#that would happen it's not even funny #text

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Sparrow’s lute is now a guitar because

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A recreation/recolor of Eugene von Blaas’ Venetian Melody from 1910 with Hammer and Sparrow. I wanted to complete my trilogy of Sparrow with the 3 heroes. I don’t take any credit for the background or idea, but I did put a good deal of effort into the characters as they appear!!

#how is this real are you kidding me #good work op #fable

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Dumpling and Hammer were BEST FRANS

#fable #good work op #we need more hammer in our lives

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The Thief is the most mysterious and contradictory of figures. It is the synthesis of beauty and cruelty, vivacity and decay, the ephemeral and the eternal. 

  The Thief is age, which robs us of our strength and looks. It is death, which robs us of our life. It is the worst in all of us. It is what we must all fear.

#fable #dang good job op

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FABLE + TITLE SCREENS

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i love and miss fable dearly

#fable #damn that logan #good work op

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This is all I'm listening to for the next three years bye

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It’s ‘Wear your guild seal on your titty’ time.

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“Hers is among them. But he can do nothing to stop it” -Reaver’s Diary, page 6

#fable #I like the hands lore #good work op

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So, I wanted to draw my oc in one of the outfits from Fable 2. So I went for the classic hot date outfit as seen in my reference/concept art from Fable. Leticia is my character and her boar’s name is Hildi. Of course, it’s the same pose from the reference, but I did not trace it at all. I want to do more art like this!

#fable

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So, I drew my Norse Goddess OC as Sparrow in Fable 2. Her boar, Hilidi is the dog. This honestly was a fun illustration, and I hope that I will be able to doodle Leticia as Sparrow again!

#fable