mylezwuzwriting
Myles :))
he/him. i am a queer, trans writer. i obsess over greek mythology and the enemies to lovers trope. i am currently reading: the sun and its shade. i am currently working on my main project, SODAS, drafting! snippet ideas // souls draft (RR)
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Writing Weapons (4): Clubs, Maces, Axes, Slings and Arrows
Clubs & Maces
Maces are refined versions of clubs, usually made from steel and flanged or spiked.
Perfect for smashing and plate armour and for crushing skulls.
When used on horseback, the rider uses continuous swining motion and leans to the side to hit.
Type of Fight Scene: gritty, historical fiction, smashing armour
Typical user: brawny male with broad shoulders nad bulging biceps
Mostly used in: historical fiction - Stone Age to Middle Ages
Main Action: smash, crush, bludgeon, batter
Main motion: downwards
Typical injury: crushed bones, crushed skull
Strategy for lethal fight: crush skull
Disadvantages: heavy, need to get closer to the opponent
Batle Axes
Used by a peasant or lumberjack
Special battle axes are bigger and heavier, with longer handles
A weapons for attack rather than defence, good at cleaving through armour
Can break through enemy shields and kill a charging horse.
They require intense training, so users are highly skilled elite soldiers, often aristocrats.
Types of Fight Scene: gritty, brutal, battles, attack, historical fiction, fantasy fiction, cutting through armour
Typical User: tall brawny male with broad shoulders and bulging biceps, courageous, elite soldier, Viking, Saxon
Mostly Used In: European Dark Ages to Middle Ages
Main Action: cleave, hack, chop, cut, split
Main Motion: downwards
Typical Injury: severed large limbs, split skulls, cleaved torsos
Strategy for Lethal Fight: severe the arm which holds the sword or the shield, or cleave torso from top to bottom, or cut off a lef then split the skull
Disadvantages: big and heavy
Bows and Arrows
They are weapons of mass use. Hundred of arrows are shot at the enemy to inflict as mcuh damagne as possible from a distance.
In the middle of the battle and for close combat, they're useless.
Castles were designed for the use of bows and arrows, with narrow windows called 'archer slits'. The top of the outer walls were desgined so archers could shoot while remaining under cover.
Arrows are relateively cheap and quickly to produce. Tips an be metal or sharpened stone, wood, bone, glass splinters, etc.
Pieces of feather at the end help the arrows fly better, but knowing which part of the feather to attach how and where is much -treasured knowledge.
Characters can learn the basics of archery can be done quickly at an emergency. However, to be really good it takes years of practice.
Most important skill is to be able to shoot many arrows in quick succession.
Stone Slings
Stone slings are cheap to make - it only takes a piece of leather, string and ammunition are simply pebbls lying around.
This makes it good for low-tech historical periods and for characters of all ages and physical capacities.
Doesn't require great physical strength, but a lot of practice is required to achieve accuracy.
Different cultures have different techniques for holding and releasing, none of which includes the continuous frantic whirling around beloved by moview makers. Rotatin is usually done once or twice, or not at all.
(1) the slinger hooks the end of the sling over her fingers (2) holds the hand above the shoulder so the sling's bag with the stone in it hangs down behind her shoulder. (3) flings it straight forward.
Blunders to Avoid
Depicting an axeman as an unkilled brute who chops blindly.
Battles where the archers shoot when sword fighters are already engaged in close fighting
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A question for writers who share excerpts on here. Please reblog so we can get more responses.
#comments and reblogs with tags#i love to hear people's feedback and thoughts#any interaction is amazing
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random idea/snippet recording
"You could be a surgeon!" [Arden's mom] exclaimed. Fynley laughed nervously.
"I absolutely could not," he said, his voice a bit shakey.
"But you have all of these ointments and creams and medicines - and look how clean you cut that plant open!" She gestured to a thick, aloe-like plant, secreting a yellowish liquid. Fynley paled.
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Writing is like being a god and i am a terrible god
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restarting the "first" draft of sodas...hopefully this one sticks
#writeblr#writing#creative writing#writer#wip update#sodas#souls of dust and shadows#writers and poets#writers on tumblr
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reblog this with the book youre currently reading and the genre you like to write! :))
im reading Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon and i like to write high fantasy with lgbtq+ romance
#writeblr#writing#creative writing#writer#writers and poets#writers on tumblr#reading#booklr#books and reading#books#currently reading#bookblr#lgbtq books#godly heathens#h.e. edgmon
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'Revenge is bad' to YOU. i love when a character destroys everyone who wronged them. i love when they get to bite and maim and tear and rip and scratch and kill. Sorry ur catholic about it but i'm different
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ok so i decided to try this bc everyone else is doing it and i seriously need motivation, so hello
if you get this to 15k (fuck that is a terrifying number, can you tell that I'm trying to make this absolutely impossible for you guys) by new years eve then i will finish the first drafts of:
my wlw christmas friends to lovers slow burn romance (it literally takes them like 8 years to get together)
my gay prince fantasy enemies to lovers mistaken identity forebidden romance
my dystopian queer found family extremely dramatic assassin story
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i am a tragedy enjoyer before i am human
#mara da'lon#fynley#sodas#souls of dust and shadows#my wip fic#my writing#my ocs#plotting#writing memes#sodas spoilers
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“My story has so much gay rep in it!” Awesome. How are you treating your female characters btw
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