Lift high the cross,

Lift high the cross,
the love of Christ proclaim
till all the world adore
his sacred Name.
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The Biggest Mistakes New Authors Make

Back from Lunacon and out to ramble about the panels I attended. . . .

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Dig In, Hold On

On very high stakes and their usefulness in fiction.

Full stake existential threats -- whereupon we had all the panelists neatly agreeing that the soul of story is conflict, and threatening the life of the character and the existence of the world around him is a great way to get conflict going.
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Less Sh*tty First Drafts

How to revise. . .

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When the Magic Comes Back

Future fantasy, and does it turn on magic returning?

Discussion of Harry Potter and other worlds where the magic is hidden.  And how hidden is it?  Is it hidden in Borderlands?  They concluded not really, it's running parallel.

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The Fantastic Library

This one got off topic rather quickly and only got back on late.
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Forward To The Past

About the sort of time travel story in which a character gets dumped in the past and changes the world with his knowledge.
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Write What You DON'T Know

It mentions that people don't write to you to tell you what you did wrong with dragons, but its chief focus was on research.

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What's In Your Wizard's Bag

Naturally interesting to me, with my interest in magic and stuff.

Covering mostly European stuff, heavily Scandavian, things that people practice would actually have used in a bag.  Though when she asked what our interests were, most of us were writers not gamers, and I mentioned the contrast between Gandalf with his staff, and Conan's sorcerers with their towers full of stuff, and we did a brief excurse into towers, which she deemed impractical; most of her lair would be underground.  (In a dungeon! 0:)

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