{"id":531,"date":"2019-08-15T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matrixwriting.net\/fanfiction\/?p=531"},"modified":"2019-08-15T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:10:13","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/15\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aseleth, one and\nall! Greetings! Most of you have heard me talk about Dilmir at one point\nor another, so you should have a general idea of what it is. For those who don\u2019t,\nthis is a tale centered on the elves of Feylund, and their magic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I removed Dilmir\nand its sequels from Heroscapers.com for two reasons: firstly, because I believed\nI would draw on them to create my novels (which I now know is no longer the\ncase), and secondly because the theme of the books turned out to be wrong. It\nis for this second reason that I do not currently intend to repost the two sequels\nto Dilmir. I can repost Dilmir because the theme had yet to\nemerge in it; things only came to a head in the next two tales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another reason I am reposting Dilmir is because I have referred to it multiple times, and it is unfair to do so while the majority of my readers have never seen it. Also, while far from perfect, I feel that Dilmir does excel in some areas of writing, such as character development and plot escalation, and I would like input on those areas from the other accomplished authors on this site. Break it down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now for the\nwarnings. Dilmir was written right when I was discovering development\nfor writing, and starting to take writing far more seriously than I had ever\ndone before. While certain aspects of Dilmir are far better than they\nhave any right to be, other aspects are not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fair warning:\nthis tale contains fantasy tropes and clich\u00e9s. The elves in this tale are based\non LotR\/Eragon style elves, although I did make some pronounced changes. Also,\nthe combat in this tale, which occurs frequently, is related in its entirety,\nblow by blow. It had not yet occurred to me that such a form of telling is hard\nto follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That being said,\nI have not fixed any of these things in this reposting. I have opted to keep Dilmir\nin its original form. The only changes I have made are fixes to typos and\ngrammar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now it is time\nfor me to stop talking and you to start reading. Please enjoy the tale of\nDilmir, and don\u2019t forget to offer criticism. It\u2019s what make my writing better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aseleth, one and all! Greetings! Most of you have heard me talk about Dilmir at one point or another, so you should have a general idea of what it is. For those who don\u2019t, this is a tale centered on the elves of Feylund, and their magic. I removed Dilmir and its sequels from Heroscapers.com &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/15\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introduction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilmir-repost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiction.armyoffour.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}