If they are avalible, yes
Consider yourself lucky, then, that you don’t live in the same country as Neil Breen.
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Does reading screenplays change the way you watch movies if you do watch them or when you read books?
Idk who that is, so I guess I’m lucky then 
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Yes and no;
My Sister’s Keeper: watched the movie then read the book when I had a copy at one point.
As for The Hunger Games, I couldn’t watch more than the first few minutes. The book was worse, couldn’t read past the first page.
*I don’t read many books now that I work long hours
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It is an entirely different art form with its own language
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I don’t know about the magic yet. I was thinking that maybe there should be some magical way for him to prove he’s really the heir to the throne later in light of the distinct lack of DNA testing in that time period, but haven’t planned it out that far. It is going to take place in a fictional land something like Europe, but maybe on another planet that resembles this one. I’m thinking same sex relations will be really frowned on, certainly by his own father. Oooh, maybe his dad will try to kill him! You’ve given me a great idea, so thanks! ( ˆ◡ˆ)۶ ٩(˘◡˘ )
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Best case scenerio is that the princey has to marry a princess anyway to produce a (male) heir and has a boyfriend on the side.
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I think I saw the movie. Do you remember if the book was good?
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I heard Old by M. Night Shamalan was stupid. I watched it.
Idk…I kind of liked it. It didn’t feel weird or stupid (there were some weird parts, but not shown in a weird way). I think if you go into it thinking you’re getting a horror, you’ll be disappointed.
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Book was decent.
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okay so, when reading a fantasy book that’s not so good, instead of groaning about it, I’ve started to do the writer thing, analyzing what it is they’re doing that I, as a reader, am not enjoying, and then trying to think if I do that in my own writing.
Then hopefully not doing that.
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How exactly do you write?
Not just pantser or “I create an outline”.
How exactly? Tell me the detail details.
I’ve never really thought about this.
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I’m never surprised because every one of us has something quite awful about ourselves. The difference is that we’ve not been exposed along what we are blind to. Really, its not done to severity, in most cases, where I choose to be bothered by it.
But then I dont follow their advice anyway. Lol
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Ah. Im in the middle of a plot scenario, and I think about how I want characters to react, then I write it. Then I tease out some elements and make thematics over it, as each new scenario happens. Then I what hell can I throw at them next? 19 hella later, did I drop something? Can anything be resolved? No? Next thing. What is in my head that I forgot to spell out like the reader isnt a mindreader? Next hell!
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Here are some pretty bad fantasy reccomendations for you:
Lightlark by Alex Aster
The Inheiritence Cycle by Christopher Paolini
The Fifth Sorceress
A certain unused script for LOTR(yes this is real)
(I hope ‘starring Mick Jagger as Sauron’ are my last words, oh my GOD I’m laughing so hard it hurts)
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Sorry, not even in a million years
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If a reader (who has never written a story) asked you the same question, would you answer in the same way?
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It is slightly more comprehensible than the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comics at least.
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Glad you asked!
Well! Let me tell you about it. Go make some tea and have a seat. (^◡^ )
• First, I’m hit with a vibe or a message, so I think about what setting would best convey that vibe or message.
• Then I try to come up with a storyline that would show it in the clearest way.
• Then I try to think of the best characters to have to deal with that problem, meaning the kind of characters who’d be hurt the most by whatever the conflict is.
• Then I make a timeline of events dating back before the story even begins, showing how the world got to be like this in the first place. (Most of that won’t go into the book, but I need to know the backstory of the world and keep it in mind while writing.)
• Then from the timeline I make an outline, usually just a bullet point outline, very loose and open. I’m trying to change that and make more detailed outlines, but so far it’s not working. (♯^.^ღ)
• After I have an outline telling me what needs to happen in order to make the story logical, then I start writing scenes in any order, just whichever scene I feel most passionate about as the mood strikes me. Sort of like the way they make movies with all the scenes out of order but grouped by location and whatnot.
• If I don’t feel passionate about any particular scene, then I just write the book in order, starting anywhere. I don’t worry about how far ahead of the inciting incident it is for the first draft. When I edit the manuscript later, I’ll just chop off the first few chapters that don’t add anything to the story. But you have to start somewhere, so I just start telling myself the story from wherever the character might start telling his story, if he were telling it to someone.
I don’t know if it’s the best way to write a book, but it usually works for me! ٩(˘◡˘)۶
So how do you write a book? Is it easy or hard for you the way you do it? ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
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Thank you for a detailed response! 
It was quite interesting to read about because it’s different from what I do.
Does this mean you have a pool of characters to pull from?
Do you ever find inconsistencies when you write out of order? Or you don’t because you’ve outlined the heck out of everything and don’t stray from the outline at all?
True. And hard. I find it hard to figure out where I want to start the story even when I know I might not include that part in the book. Is it hard for you to find that “somewhere”?
Hmm…
Let me think of an example book to use here.
When I first thought to write Pinti’s story, it was for NaNoWriMo 2016.
I tried explaining it...
I had this vague idea of a bipedal blue feline walking alone in a market place, but she’s discriminated against by Humans, and she’s looking for someone because that person knows where to find a magical object she needs to do something for her race.
So, I had an image of that. Then it was all about filling it out and pushing it forward. I had to know why she was there alone, were there others like her, why Humans thought she was a savage creature or why they wanted her, and where she was going, why did she need the magical object. Also, who is this guy that will help her? Is he her race or Human?
I also knew I wanted to pull a wise old wizard at some point and also I wanted her to meet some good wizards and also meet someone of her race that was hiding and powerful.
I also wanted her to be semi-on-the-run from a shadowy monster.
Then I had more things to fill in and add and figure out.
So, I wrote the NaNo version which at 50k, ended in a weird place. Pinti meets the hidden powerful one that is of her race. Wow. Shocking. And then I didn’t continue it. But I always knew I wanted to.
One day, I went back to it. I just continued writing it. Pantsing. I didn’t know where it was going, but I just ran with it. After that, it was a whole bunch of refining and fixing little details, adding and subtracting lore, making the history of the world, etc.
And then I decided to change the story’s beginning and add more characters, more relationships, more travel, more world introduced. I explored what the shadow creatures were and why they were doing evil-looking things.
I created Wikis of my fantasy races and through that, I refined the lore and everything even more. Then I went back to fix the story again.
So, it was a lot of back and forth with world building and writing the story that eventually made Pinti’s story close to what it is today.
Being a pantser, it was a lot of discovery writing. It’s challenging when I come to a plot hole that I have no idea how to fix initially. I might put it aside, work on another book, and come back to it months later. Well, months later doesn’t happen much any more. Now I can do it a few days later
Maybe you can see some kind of method in it? It does feel quite all over the place when you’re in the thick of it. I guess that’s why I’ve never really talked about it much. I don’t have clear bullet point methods like you do.
I can’t say, “I do this, then this, and then this” because I don’t 
I have tried outlining, but I can’t work with that. I feel too limited.
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Asking for details like this, yeah. Not asking for details, its “I throw shit at the characters until they crack.”
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