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I am writing a Medieval novel and I need some assistance. Basically things to be careful for in this genre. It follows a young King, forced to take his deceased fathers place. War is upon them. I have done a good amount of research on my own but it couldn't hurt to have a helpful hand.

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Permalink Reply by Anna L. Walls on November 10, 2011 at 1:21am

I'd be glad to be a sounding board for you. It sounds like we write about pretty much the same thing. I like to add in magic to the mix though - sometimes.

Permalink Reply by Jack Tomblin on November 10, 2011 at 1:22am

im sorry, but what is a sounding board?

Anna L. Walls said:

I'd be glad to be a sounding board for you. It sounds like we write about pretty much the same thing. I like to add in magic to the mix though - sometimes.

Permalink Reply by Anna L. Walls on November 10, 2011 at 1:29am

Someone you can bounce ideas off of.

Permalink Reply by Robert L. Allen on November 10, 2011 at 8:00am

Discription of all the surroundings and characters are needed in the genre. Have you seen Lord of the Rings or read the books. Discription is the key. Some readers don't like over discription but in this book you are going to have to set up the scenes as well as the characters. Every little thing helps. I believe this genre is in the 90-100,000 word area. So move slow and precise.

Permalink Reply by Jack Tomblin on November 11, 2011 at 2:03am

Yeah, I am on the third chapter. Ive focused mostly on dialogue but I'm going to go back after I'm finished the book and work on better description.

Robert L. Allen said:

Discription of all the surroundings and characters are needed in the genre. Have you seen Lord of the Rings or read the books. Discription is the key. Some readers don't like over discription but in this book you are going to have to set up the scenes as well as the characters. Every little thing helps. I believe this genre is in the 90-100,000 word area. So move slow and precise.

Permalink Reply by Robert L. Allen on November 12, 2011 at 7:21am

I'm working on a book in which I have written six or seven chapters. I needed to go back to chapter two for a slight change and I have been there for weeks. Sometimes the surrounding discription is needed as I go, thus making the chapters ahead more powerful. My first book, which I'm sending out to agents right now, I did as you stated, I wrote the book and then in the rewrite fixed a lot of things however, I learned from that and making the changes as I go, I am finding, is much easier. Keep writing!!!

Jack Tomblin said:

Yeah, I am on the third chapter. Ive focused mostly on dialogue but I'm going to go back after I'm finished the book and work on better description.

Robert L. Allen said:

Discription of all the surroundings and characters are needed in the genre. Have you seen Lord of the Rings or read the books. Discription is the key. Some readers don't like over discription but in this book you are going to have to set up the scenes as well as the characters. Every little thing helps. I believe this genre is in the 90-100,000 word area. So move slow and precise.

Permalink Reply by Cleveland W. Gibson on November 17, 2011 at 11:27am

Might be useful to join a group dealing in Medieval history for the purpose of the novel. That type of group or writers of Medieval novels will know a lot of the pitfalls. It might help(although already jumping ahead) to know will you seek out an agent, a publisher or publish yourself.

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