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For now, it's just for tNBW, but I'm hoping it'll eventually be destined for mass market.

'Marked for extinction' sounds interesting. I'll play with it a bit.

Modified my summary so it's a bit closer to my new plot. It's probably too long and too wordy, but I think it's better than my last one.

"The small country of Truacia has truly never seen darker days. The royal family is gone, murdered fourteen long years ago, and the cruel Chaedoran Empire has taken over. Still, the people rebel, branded as scofflaws and hunted down. Those captured are executed or sold into slavery and those that run free must remain wary not only of the Empire’s hunters, but also the wild dragons wreaking havoc upon the land. It is in the midst of this conflict that four young souls find their fates intertwined.

Fifteen cycles young, twins Maya and Vierra live peacefully in the city of Viyebar, until the day Maya is accused of stealing from the Empress herself. Using every resource available to save her sister, Vierra delves into a world of secrets her enemies would much rather keep buried.

Their family gone and their memories fragmented, dragon hatchlings Noi and Dea must learn to survive in a world completely unfamiliar to them. Threats lay around every bend and each step they take only brings them closer to the two-legged beasts that wish for their extinction."

The last few words are really bugging me. I want it to be something grand like "extinction of the dragon race", but it sounds better when it's more personal like, "murdered their family/mother/etc." Grrr... hate it when I get stuck on a certain sentence.

I agree with njc.

Eek! I've been buzzed. I'm writing, I promise! Just not anything that's finished enough to post here.

Sorry for being MIA recently, but it looks like the method of pulling bare-bones chapters from my expanded outline is actually working. Yay! Nothing is finished enough to post here, but I'm hoping I can actually finish the story this time. Then I can let my perfectionist nature run free on editing. I'm just crossing my fingers that my hands will actually let me write and type without taking medication ('cause for some reason, my stories just aren't as good while I'm medicated ).

Again, sorry for the lack of reviews. Hope y'all are doing great!

Thanks for all the advice, guys. Sorry for being so inactive lately. Hopefully I'll get some writing and reviews done this week.

In other news, looks like I'm going to be working on a project in Germany in a few weeks. Not sure if this will help or hinder my writing goals, but we'll see how it goes. I'm crossing my fingers that I'll have a day or so to actually explore something other than the harbor I'm working at.

I wouldn't say they are scared. It's not the first time they've done it, but it is the first time they've done it with such high stakes and for such an important item.

Good point, Amy. I think I've got the structure of it sorted out, it's just the implementation that's going to be difficult. Oh, well. I'll write it out and see what happens. Maybe I'll even finish it enough to post it here.

Personally, I love playing with PoV. It's one of my favorite things about writing. I'd probably write my novels from a dozen different PoV's if I didn't restrain myself. In all seriousness, I have seen many an author throw in another character's PoV half-way through the story and it works, as long as their PoV is relevant and there was more than one PoV to begin with. For instance, if we go through a novel from Amy's PoV, then 3/4 of the way through, John's PoV comes in, that's a bit off-putting. The reader has experienced nothing but Amy until this point, so why change it? But, if we change things so we're in Amy's and Nick's PoV throughout the story, John's sudden intrusion doesn't seem so bad anymore.

As far as deciding what PoV to do per chapter, I have (quite recently) learned that it's best to go with whatever character has the most to lose. If Amy's mother is dying, it's probably not a good idea to do that scene from Nick's PoV. The reader gains nothing from seeing through his eyes. Oh, but wait! What if Nick is the one who killed Amy's mother? Now it could be worthwhile for readers to see through his eyes. Just depends on which character has the most invested into whatever scene you're writing.

One other thing. If this is a new character, it's best to reveal or hint at a connection between this character and the others that you've been writing about fairly early on. Then it's easy for the reader to care (if indirectly) about this new person that intruded on their perfectly good PoV.

Hope this helped.

Is it too coincidental to have all three royally-descended siblings develop magical gifts? I recently came up with a mechanic to the magic that fits some of my characters absolutely perfectly and makes sense of the villain's intentions. It makes sense of a good portion of the plot, too. Problem is, if I implement this mechanic in the way that I'm thinking, then all three Rosenward children who just happen to survive the massacre of their family, also happen to develop arcane gifts. Not just any arcane gifts, either, but rare gifts in all three cases. I could pull the  "magic runs in royal blood" card, but it doesn't feel like enough. My OCD is exploding with the coincidences here.

FYI, to battle the coincidence of all three siblings surviving the massacre, I did have 2-3 brothers in mind that did not survive. Also, some rather distant members of the family survived, as well.

I won't. In fact, I might post some of my side projects here in the meantime. I've been having difficulties with story structure/plot, so I'm going to try writing a simpler story and see how that goes. I've also been reading The Secrets of Story and random articles on outlines, etc., which has also been helping.

Seems like this project is going to be on hold for a bit. I've been writing little scenes here and there, but I think my current skills as a writer don't quite match up to the scope of the story that I want to cover. I'm going to try working on smaller projects for a while and see how that goes.

Hey guys! Sorry I've been MIA for a bit. I promise I'm still writing, just haven't gotten anything developed enough to post it here. No cattle prods, please.

In the meantime, if anyone needs reviews feel free to poke me. Tearing into other works helps kick my butt into gear.