[Attn: Writers who wanna write for Eberron] Plot workshopping?

[RangerWickett]

I also have my 10-page writing sample, if anyone wants to critique it. Send me an email.

 

[Pants]

10 pages is basically a chapter. It's obviously a chance to enlarge upon a selected area of your synopsis. Is anyone considering using the 1st person? And Wizards' novels are usually a dozen or so short chapters, sub-divided into sub-sections marked out with "*'s". How do you decide what to include? And is anyone considering doing a prologue?

I'm writing one in 1st and the other in 3rd person. I MIGHT include a prologue for one, it depends on how the 'flow' of the story ends up.

 

[RangerWickett]

So right now I'm getting the sense that only 10 people are interested in writing for Eberron, and none but me are nervous enough to want feedback. C'mon, does no one have an idea they want reviewed?

 

[Pants]

So right now I'm getting the sense that only 10 people are interested in writing for Eberron, and none but me are nervous enough to want feedback. C'mon, does no one have an idea they want reviewed?

Maybe some people don't want their ideas stolen.

Here's a little critique on your story idea:

She convinces Hawkins to help her. They scry and teleport to Sharn, sidetracking briefly to get an ally with the Mark of Healing, Parison d’Jorasco.

I'd introduce the character of Parison earlier in the story to help attach him to the characters in some way. Perhaps he is one of Hawkins' old friends and provides some brief assistance before they whisk away from Sharn. Later on, when they return to Sharn, maybe they visit Parison and he offers his to help them since they're so 'out-crossbowed.'

 

[RangerWickett]

Actually, he's in the first scene. *grin* I couldn't find a smooth way to mention it in the synopsis, but hopefully they'll read the writing sample and see him there. The group also goes to him occasionally during the fact finding part of the novel. It's very hard to squeeze all the pertinent information into just one page.

And it does fit, just barely.

 

[Pants]

Actually, he's in the first scene. *grin* I couldn't find a smooth way to mention it in the synopsis, but hopefully they'll read the writing sample and see him there. The group also goes to him occasionally during the fact finding part of the novel. It's very hard to squeeze all the pertinent information into just one page.

And it does fit, just barely.

The hardest part, I think, will be writing the one-pager as I'm very much a 'freestyling writer.'

 

[Funksaw]

You know, I'd like to see a former soldier of Karrnath who returned from the war to find a populace stricken by poverty and fear, so he foments an armed insurrection against the ruling elite.

The struggle is futile - they're just outnumbered, but the committments of Karrnath's troops to deal with the rebellion allows a triad of powerful nobels (and by extention, the rest of the nobles) to force moderate reforms in jurisprudence and shifts the balance of power away from the King and towards the coalition of Noble Houses.

And of course, though the protagonist dies at the end of the story, the revolution lives on...

 

[Hawkshere]

That reminds me of Lester Dent's (of Doc Savage fame) Pulp Master Plot.

...is the hero GETTING IT IN THE NECK?

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Most important. It must have 12 chapters, plus a forword (or afterword). After all it's Eberron.

 

[Ricochet]

So right now I'm getting the sense that only 10 people are interested in writing for Eberron, and none but me are nervous enough to want feedback. C'mon, does no one have an idea they want reviewed?

I just sent in my proposal today.

Without going into too much detail, I don't use any dragonmarked characters, though I have a shifter and an artificer in the party. My story is probably not as much Eberron as it could have been, but it does focus heavily on the after-effects of the Last War, and the problems that have developed for the heroes because of it. The plotline also revolves around something deeper and darker than regular high fantasy, without being epic and world-shattering, which I think is what Wizards are looking for with this.

I won't post my synopsis here until after the deadline, since I can't be sure someone doesn't steal my idea, and then write it down (better than me) and send it in. I'm too insecure I guess.

On a side note, how long time does it take the US Postal Service to deliver a letter from Europe (crosses fingers)? My mail provider says it's 2-3 days to get to the US, but they have no idea how much longer it takes from there. Also, it was impossible to send express, because the US have dropped that kind of mail for international business, which is a little crazy I think.