Hi my name's Matt i'm nineteen years old and a hopefully up-and-coming author. For the past couple years i've been writing this novel that i don't even have a name for yet lol. granted it's my first attempt at a novel i want to hit it home the first time, but i feel that it won't happen right away. I'm trying to create a medieval fantasy world. Jim's books, namely the Codex Alera, have inspired me greatly and I can't wait for april by the way Jim . Anyway The book is very adult orientated and once it's done i'm going to have to go back through and rewrite some of the battle scenes so that they're not as gory as I have them out to be right now. really the reason i joined this forum is to get some brainstorming feedback because i'm stuck on a few key points that are keeping me from completing the novel. Granted it's short right now but I found i like to think about the beginning and the end of the book, how i want to start it and where i want it to be before it's done. And then I'll fill in everything else as I go. Sounds like a bad way of writing for me but it works i suppose. Any help would be appreciated