Recent content by Devor

^ So this is mostly about two things: Finding a theme that's more subtle than, say, a political talking point. And then executing it well. You don't commonly hear people complain that somebody hit that coming of age theme a little too hard, or that they felt like they were being beat over the...

You can decide if this is relevant or not…. But old lost texts are found in libraries all the time. Old libraries have tons of books that are never opened, never looked at, walked by and ignored, in languages nobody reads, misfiled, and so on… nobody has any idea they’re special to a niche...

So, my story is epic.... but also not? The story starts with a cop on a case, but each book in the series is supposed to get bigger as things spiral into an epic journey. There's five countries on one peninsula - think of it as larger than Spain. It's an epic story across these five pretty...

As luck would have it I've got a plan for a trapped-in-a-game story which I'm putting into a Trope Reboot article in the coming months. The ideas I share there are all "free to use," so I'll drop part of the story idea now because I think it's relevant. The idea I had was that the video...

Yeah, I wish it said portion control. Daily weighing is not for everyone.

^ That's a lot of time spent trying to prove that he took a multivitamin and protein shake and vegetables, when I clearly detailed all of that already. It constantly feels like we're having two different conversations here, like you're trying to argue with someone who isn't even here. So I'm...

You know there was a guy who went on a Twinkie diet. He ate nothing but twinkies, a protein shake, a daily vitamin, and just a handful of vegetables with his family dinner. On this diet, all the benchmarks for his health improved. When he started swapping other things back into his diet...

I've got tons of different groups in my setting, but no transients to speak of. The setting is a peninsula on the south side of the continent with a bit of a racial history to it. A big empire swept in from the mainland hundreds of years ago, bringing sweeping changes and diversity, then they...

^ Iceland is an outlier on a lot of different lists. It seems to hit the perfect blend of an exciting great outdoors with long evenings that forces you inside to do things like read.

One factor that was put forward because of recent events, the longer someone has been in power, the more they get "fed up" with their advisors and what everyone tells them they should be doing, and the more likely they are to take the big actions they've always wanted to, like going to war...

Honestly, the area I'm struggling with right now is character building through flashbacks and other references to their past or backstory. I can pull off most other things well enough, some with a bit more effort than others, but every time I mention a character's past, it always feels like a...

I've been ruminating on this for a few days, feeling like I had something to add but unsure how to pinpoint it. I'm not quite there yet, so forgive me if my response is a bit muddled. There are a handful of big tropes which, when looked at in isolation, follow a pattern. First there's a big...

^ Huh? Who said anything about veganism?

Hey, total aside, but go look up Dr. Ho Man Kwok and the science and background on MSG. It's a fascinating story. You won't be mad you did.

Honestly, it doesn't even matter, as there are reasons other than diets which contribute to their longevity, which makes it largely anecdotal. And how their pork diet interacts with a low-stress body may be very different than a high-stress body. The pork they ate traditionally wasn't the same...