In the White Kingdom, I believe it qualifies as an Exotic Weapon feat.Piratecat said:I'll admit to a sick curiosity as to how you manage to whirl it around like that
Piratecat said:I'll take this opportunity to say what a delight judging this contest has been for me. Thanks for letting a new judge take the helm, and thanks for letting me use Sialia's art as I did so. Oddly enough, taking this critical look at your stories is probably going to improve my own writing as well. I used to do what BSF does and not read the other stories, mainly because I was afraid of absorbing too much from them. Now that approach seems alien to me, and when I compete in the summer round I'll probably read everyone's story that I possibly can. It's all fodder for the imagination, I think.
Zhaneel said:I agree that reading & critiquing other people's stories improves your own writing.
In fact, there are several workshops based around this idea. I encouage anyone reading/writing in this thread to consider Critters Workshop. It is an online SF/F/H based workshop. You are required to critique other people's stories and can submit your own for critique. In order to be in the "good standing" that you should be in to critique stories, you need to maintain a 75% ratio of stories critiqued to weeks of memebership [3 critiques a month]. You can learn a lot from reading other people's critiques of the same work. And since all feedback has to be 100 words or longer, you can expect more Arwink style critiques.
Zhaneel