Recent content by BrittleBones

Good twists- or at least, unexpected dramatic moments, even if they wouldn't necessarily be considered 'twists'- are delivered best when there is a precedent against whatever you're setting up. Surprisingly, a two hour video essay on Mario Maker troll levels of all things taught me the nuance in...

Hm. I've tried working on this in the new chapter. Since I've got you here I might as well ask, am I doing a better job here? Anyways, after this I think I'm about done with this thread. Need to stop leaking all these excerpts on here or I might as well just post the entire story lmao :LOL...

You can find excerpts in one of my comments

Sorry for the double post, but yes it is (a crossover, though) and yes, that's definitely true. Could be why I'm getting very positive comments so far. I could have stumbled into giving my audience exactly what they wanted? But I still need to be able to get them to feel for the characters to...

Okay, so that other story I mentioned. I figured I should include some excerpts to illustrate how it compares to my own stuff. Without further ado, (fwagon isn't a typo, by the way, no matter how many times my phone tries to autocorrect it) Are they doing better than me, or is it writer's...

Eh, it's definitely more of a lighter scene (most of the story is less serious in tone. I emulate the tone and humor of the work it's based on), and some of the points you raise seem half due to a lack of surrounding context, but I digress. Some things here definitely make sense, though. I...

Ok. So over the past couple of weeks I've been writing a fanfiction. An idea randomly jumped out to me and I ran with it because I was interested in the concept and it wouldn't leave my head. I'm two chapters and a prologue in and I've been working probably the fastest I've ever gone up to this...

I'm reminded of Okabe from Steins;Gate.

As a British person, I appreciate our colonization of fantasy worlds.

I'm sorry but I nearly had a stroke trying to read this, could you clarify a bit?

I could, but romance... isn't exactly my forte, especially since I'm asexual 😅 Finch is right in that romance is a bit of a different wheelhouse compared to platonic relationships. Doesn't always create the same kind of situations. (And, I'm pretty sure they'll have just met each other at the...

...without falling into common dynamics? I'd like to write a sort of buddy comedy and, while I have a pretty good concept of what the two leads will be like- one is an intelligent, socially awkward PI and the other is a more sociable, overenthusiastic noble (think of- though this is more of a...

But the medieval fantasy writers will. Perhaps we'd stand the best chance in a zombie apocalypse :unsure:

If I were writing a musical I think I'd want to make the songs feel natural. Give the characters a reason to be singing. Cause while most musicals don't do this and have plethora of great tracks I think from a writer's side it'd bug me if characters were singing with no contextual explanation...

I would recommend, and you could be doing this already but I thought I'd put it out there just in case, not 'villainizing' power, if that makes sense. I think compulsion as a term has a negative connotation which could make you more inclined to cast that side in a poor light, but there are...