Scribbled Fiction

I don't know if anyone else notices these things besides me, but it seems to me that some quests in novels are more realistic than others. In my humble opinion, if you're writing the quest correctly, most of the time your characters should feel like this: Just so, Russel. Lots of different issues pop up when traveling, even on a road trip. But don't think about it like a road trip. In fantasy (but really, why am I being specific, because where else would a quest be?) a better way to think about a quest is to think of it like a hike. If you've been hiking, you know how you have to ration your water, ration your snacks, constantly take a break because your feet start hurting- that kind of thing. Those are all the kinds of issues your questers should hit. Supplies Your characters, can, and most definitely will, run out of supplies. And when they do, you have to think about how far they thought they could make it before they ran out. Surely they thought they wou...

If you've never edited a novel, my friend, you have known joy. I know that there are people out there who feel they haven't lived until they've reached the editing process, but I'm not one of those. Don't get me wrong, there are times that the editing process is fun, but things like rewriting just feel like slowly peeling off individual layers of my brain. I'm pretty sure even the people who say they love editing hate it sometimes, just like the people who love the first draft hate it sometimes. So I think each and every one of you reading this can completely understand every editing situation I'm about to make fun of. So here we go!      1. If you don't read it often enough, you'll forget all about stuff. For example, I haven't read the third book in my elf series (very original name, I know, working on it) in a reeeally  long time because I knew how much editing it would need. Now I'm rereading it, and because I haven't read i...