How to write a fantasy novel (Part 1)

How to write a fantasy novel Part 1

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[jax1616g]

When you open a book does there have to be a battle going on? Because In my novel I start talking about the main charecter, setting, and plot.

Got any advice?

[alvarez73726]

@jax1616g haha lol no there doesn't have to be a battle. but don't bore the reader with unecessary dialogue unless it's important and furthers the story.

[jax1616g]

@alvarez73726 Oh and sorry to bother you agian but can a climax be excepable in the beganing?

[alvarez73726]

@jax1616g sure, a climax can be a great way to start off a book. my book opens with an invasion.

[Eric0399]

@1b74 your so full of yourself. give your fellow writers some fucking respect. Hes trying to help people out and your here trying to sound like your better then everyone because your a "published" author. give him some respect. Good job Alvarez i liked the video

[TelecasterLORD73]

Hey, mate. Good advices here , but I got one thing to say... 6:42 Here it sounds like you think that magic is a stupid thing to put in a book. Well, remember that magic is a very wide topic. No fantasy-author portrays it in the same way, and I think it's brilliant how Christopher Paolini, writer of Eragon portays magic. In his books magic is nothing else than energy taken from other objects, channeled in a special way. I think magic is awesome, if you can put limits to it, like in Eragon.

[GreatWhiteBrow]

Something I hate is when a book is being made into a film, or even when a scriptwriter hands the script to the director. The author/writer has in their head what they see and what they think the world and the characters should look like but the director will probably change that completely to their own adaptation. How ever awesome the Lord of the Rings films were, they sucked compared to the books. My opinion.

[DreamDesignBuild]

It's all his fault Precious! Yess! Yess! That Peter Jackson should be cut to pieces and fed to the orcses! Since he made the movie about The Precious all these fantastic scribblers are coming out of the Fangorn woodwork.

[Ranganoob]

This really helped me get on track!

Cheers

[KittyJWilliams]

@1b74 If you are an author....with that spelling.....and that attitude....I'm a cave-dwelling disco monkey.......

[KittyJWilliams]

Good tips! Great movie (dark knight) and ...you sorta sounds a bit like the joker XD

[Skittlez0304]

Whats the name of his book

[TheBestttesttt]

Christopher Paolini, though he has borrowed idea's from Tolkien, portrays magic brilliantly, as TelecasterLORD73 has said. His focus on character development is also admirable. The writing of Tolkien, however, is unmatched. No one, and I mean it, NO one has ever written as good as that guy.

[Werelinglover]

When Eragon used magic to escape the prison he had to wait days without eating or drinking because they were drugged. He couldn't contact Saphira, his dragon, and he couldn't use magic with the drugs, but in the end, he had only managed to use a very little burst of magic to escape, only to have Murtagh rush in minute later, complaining about him ruining Saphira and his plan to rescue him.

[TheLightofAniu]

@Alverez73726 I thank you immensely for this advice, I have been working on my first book for over three years and a background history for the story for a lot longer, I am fifteen now abs I have finished my first book, and I am on the second, the first book was worth 190 pages in an actual book (cut down of course) about 119 pages of A4 paper, and with 44591 words! When I finished I could not believe it.

[lionden14]

Great Video! You really gave good advice, keep it up! I wish you luck with your book! I'm working on a trilogy right now.