A World Of Pure Imagination
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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…
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EXTENDED CUT! First Impressions: Shadows Over Arcadia by Zacheas.
At five years old, Ren Drakemore was contemplating the moral fabric of kingdoms. At five, I was eating glue. Core Concepts & Initial Impressions: I remember my earliest youthāfive years oldāthe crunch of an apple dribbling faintly down my chin as I lounged in contemplation of lifeās meaning. Ah, those were trying days, wrestling with…
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How to RĢ“iĢ“tĢ“eĢ“ Wrong a Worstseller
In todayās society of ceaseless overachievers, I canāt help but feel a little left out every time I walk into a bookstore ā itās flooded with how-to-become-successful guides. Iāve never read one, so I canāt say how good they areā¦ Can bestsellers really teach you how to write themselves? But on a second thought, Iām…
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EXTENDED CUT! First Impressions: Aether Nexus: Curse of Love & Hatred. By Inlajin
āIn Aether Nexus, kindness and calamity share the same cabināa boyās compassion, a witchās curse, and a storm waiting just beyond the door.ā Core Premise & Initial Impression: Bardic Planet has reviewed quite the number of progression-fantasy novels of late. As Bard-in-Chief, itās my prerogative to mix things up. Pursuant to that, this week youāll…