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Date Posted: 09:03:32 03/09/02 Sat
Author: LordBrian
Subject: Re: Making a story more unique
In reply to: ridcully 's message, "Making a story more unique" on 13:49:26 03/05/02 Tue

Your story sounds interesting... but like you said... it seems... a little... used up...

Personally, i tend to keep my stories centered around humans, with an occasional variation. This is just by choice, because... well i really cant explain it, i guess because i am a human... i wanna write about humans...

anyway... The Dark Lord can stay, u need the antagonist and hes just as good as anyother bad guy.

The Sword of super power.... I read a trilogy of books similar to the story you have... except that there were three swords of great power. Thron, Bright Nail, and .... well i dont remeber the other one... but one of the swords was weilded by the bad guy. One was lost, but eventually found by the main character (a man around 19) and then the sword was lost again, (i think) only to be found again, and returned to the man by the king, so that he could kill the evil guy. The last sword, was held by an old, skilled warrior, who had put the king into power around 40 years ago.

Each of the sword was made of different items, and races. Bright nail was made by a weird metal, Thorn was made of a large rock that fell from the sky (a meteor). and the last was made of... some sortof strange wood and water that was cultivated by ancient fairies.

The book also had several storylines being intertwined... and all the main characters met at the end.

The story was written by tad williams, and was really good.

Anyway, as you can see the story can have its own twists, changes and such...

Now, as for the ending, when the bad guy is killed, he should have a second in command run away, and swear to get vengance... that way you have room for a sequal.

I really cant help you in being unique... becuase i dont know how :| why dont you do what i do... i write the story as it comes... no planning or anything :)

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Re: Making a story more unique -- Baeraad, 11:25:56 03/11/02 Mon