A World Of Pure Imagination
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EXTENDED CUT! First Impressions: Swords Donāt Kill Monsters. By Heir.
āSome stories hand you power. Swords Donāt Kill Monsters makes you survive long enough to deserve it.ā Core Premise & Initial Impressions: Swords Donāt Kill Monsters. Rappers donāt either. What does? Perhaps Ambientāthe ingeniously inventive, elegantly executed magic system at the heart of this novel. Iāve got to be real with you, Iām not ready…
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EXTENDED CUT! First Impressions: Born Under A Black Sun. By Paul Grady.
āThis is not a fantasy built to be consumed quickly, but one meant to be lived in.ā Core Premise & Initial Impressions: Everyone has their issues. Some of us drink too much; for others, itās food. Maybe your parents pushed you too hard. Maybe they didnāt push you hard enough. Someone reading this right now…
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Bite-Sized Review: Sky Pride by Warby Picuss
Sky Pride is a classic cultivation novel that knows exactly what it isāand executes it well. Realms, pills, flying swords, sect hierarchiesāit embraces the genreās familiar structure rather than reinventing it. What elevates the story is not novelty, but execution. The heart of the novel is its protagonist, Tian Zihao. Abandoned, diseased, and raised in…
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First Impressions: Kingless Crown by opopopopo.
āAn earnest work of myth-making, heavy with history and danger.ā Core Premises & Initial Impressions: Throw yourself back to your school days. Youāre on the far side of the classroomānot in the teacherās direct line of sight, but you can see the whiteboard all the same. You donāt even have to bob and weave past…
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Full Verse Review: Fly Girl by NotPhoebee.
Whatās it like to be afraid? I gots to tells yaāI wouldnāt have the first idea. Buckling under the weight of a future either yearned for or desperately scrambled to escape? Aw heck, what would a simple high-school groundsman like me know about such a thing? No sir-ree. A bumpkin like myself aināt got no…
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5 LitRPG Interfaces That Would Ruin Your Life.
We all wish life was more like a video game. In games, the rules are clear: level up, save the princess, save the world, or just get the cute guy with the freckles to ask you out on a second date. You know heās not the canon pick, but Love-Love Princess 4 is all about…
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EXTENDED CUT! First Impressions: The Glass Wizard – The tale of a somewhat depressed wizard. By The Duckman.
āThe Glass Wizard isnāt pushing the boundaries of web fictionāitās hurling itself through them like a wizard-shaped meteor.ā Core Premise & Initial Impressions: How best to convey my first impressions of The Glass Wizard? I wrestled with that question while scribbling notes for this reviewābut eventually, the answer revealed itself. To wit: imagine yourself at…
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Full Verse Review: The Lone Wanderer. By PathOfPen.
This oneās a bit esotericānot all of you are meant to understand it. But those of you whoāve puffed the magic dragonās fungal cousin will know full well, it can take you to someā¦ strange places. I only wish Iād picked up The Lone Wanderer before going down that route. Didnāt realise there was an…
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Full Verse Review: C.A.R.O.L.I.N. by R.D.Burger
In the interest of full transparency, before launching into this review, I must confess that Iām rather fond of this author. Avid readers of this site will know heās a valued contributor to our growing series of writing-advice essays. (For brevity, Iāve used āthis siteā instead of āBardic Planet.ā Iāve already saved at least half…
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Write It Wise: Map Your Novel Before It Maps You
Essay #4 ā Map Your Novel. Chapter 30 of The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing, by the editors of Writer’s Digest When you see the Southern Cross for the first time You understand now why you came this way. Cuz the truth you might be runnin’ from is so small But it’s as big as…