Minor magical ability?

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Answering a question on NaNoWriMo: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3060202 I am creating a world where magic is fairly prevalent but I have a couple of characters that I term having 'minor' magical ability. What would a minor magical ability be? Talking to animals seems pretty major to me. Reading mind would be major. I am just trying to get a few ideas of what you think would be considered minor magical ability? Thanks! I've actually never considered talking animals a magical... Read Full Story
Ice Realms, Ice Age, Frozen Planets, etc. Any Info?

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Okay, so I'm still thinking I'll go with my *Beauty and the Beast* plot, but now I'm wanting to do it in an ice age world/realm/planet, and I'm wondering though, on the hows and why of it being an ice realm, ice age type planet, and was hoping for some thoughts on this. This is kind of a two part question. I originally asked this over in sci-fi forum, because I thought *on another planet = it must be sci-fi*, but the answers I got over there told me that sci-fi had to be based on real... Read Full Story
Space Ship vs Star Ship

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(reposting this old post) What is the difference between a space ship and a star ship? I don't know if this is considered "cannon" to the general sci-fi genre or not; or how it compares to other writers and what they do, but I write sci-fi and this is what I do for my own stories: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ shuttle crafts: can only be used for short distance travel, much like an airplane, they carry at most maybe 30 people; they can leave the atmosphere to reach an orbiting... Read Full Story
Sheilds or no?

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(Reposting this old post) Have you ever watched Star Trek and heard Kirk tell Sulu to raise the deflector shields? I was reading a sci-fi writers forum today, and found a debate on wither or not a writer should use shields on their ships, and if so what are those shields like, how to they work, etc.? Of course I had to join in the debate. You know me. Well anyways, what follows here, is the answer I had to the debate: In my stories the ships (most notably the VISION~D8) are built out... Read Full Story
Primitive lifestyle with spaceships & laser weaponry?

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My plot has changed a lot in 2 weeks. I started out with InuYasha fan-fic. It evolved into a Japanese folk lore based on Beauty & the Beast. Next it left Japan and went to 13 short stories retelling Beasty & the Beast. Than is became, Beauty and the Beast and . . . the Ice Dragon. ??? From there is became pure fantasy with ice wizards and ice dragons in an ice realm. Now it's left fantasy behind and is moving into sci-fi, with a primitive-lifestyle culture on a distant frozen planet... Read Full Story
Beauty & the Beast: Care to give some advice?

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I found another question on NaNoWriMo which begged me to answer it: Beauty & the Beast: Care to give some advice? So, I was wondering if there was anyone out there who thought this was a worthwhile plot idea for November... I was thinking that maybe I could go along the idea of 'wicked' and do that to another fairytale: beauty and the beast. The thing is, it'd have to be off of the disney version, because I don't recall ever reading about another guy in the original fairytales...I have... Read Full Story
Things that may or may not be in a story.

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I found another NaNoWriMo question to answer: Things that may or may not be in a story. That may have sounded confusing. I need a list of things that people put in stories that other people really enjoy. Things I have so far are: - Pirates - Ninjas - Secret Societies - Love/Romance - Adventure - Mystery - Magic - Futuristic Cities - Medieval Cities - Dragons - Aliens - People who have disappeared and would be dead by now The reason I need this is because once my story gets to a certain... Read Full Story
Why would a modern city be put into lock-down?

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Here is a question I found on NaNoWrimo: Why would a modern city be put into lock-down? The city in question isn’t any particular city. I’ve got the basic plot of the story, I just need a potential ‘how’ - the backstory of the lockdown/siege/quarantine. Those who have the means have fled the city already - [...] Read Full Story
Why would a modern city be put into lock-down?

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Here is a question I found on NaNoWrimo: Why would a modern city be put into lock-down? The city in question isn't any particular city. I've got the basic plot of the story, I just need a potential 'how' - the backstory of the lockdown/siege/quarantine. Those who have the means have fled the city already - bribed the guards, or maybe left before the lockdown? I'd be going for more corrupt government/dictatorship instead of zombies/mystery disease, but I'll give everything some thought... Read Full Story
Plot Help: Beauty & Beast Only Not Beauty & Beast

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I've been throwing around the idea of doing a set of short stories based on a single theme, when it occurred to me that all the stories/books/movies I like seem to be based on a sort of Beauty and the Beast theme, in fact I own more than a dozen different versions of the fairy tale Beauty & the Beast itself, plus got all the different versions of the movies too. It's a safe bet to say that Beauty & the Beast is my favorite fairy tale! Well, on a different thread here, I was commenting... Read Full Story

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