Recent content by Agamemnon

I know this may seem a little odd, but I'm not being sarcastic here. There's also the consideration people might confuse it as a fan fiction for the popular Deux Ex video game series, just saying. However I agree that a title people don't understand will hamper your ability to draw in readers.

I'll take that into consideration

Any advice for a writer who just can't seem to get into the swing of things anymore? I have everything I need, plot, characters, setting, the whole nine, then I just kinda blah on the writing. It isn't just one story or idea, this seems to be affecting my writing in general.

This is something of another hang-up I've run into recently. I'm looking for tips, tricks, and ideas on ways to describe characters physically without stopping the story for a paragraph long description. However, being a new step I'm taking, there's a bit of a struggle going on. I'm looking for...

Okay, let me give a little perspective here, I'm already getting some ideas. The chapter is about the a character who was recently promoted to captain and given command of a ship (sci-fi setting). She's actually taking over for the former captain, to whom she was first officer for seven years as...

There are other types of conflict other than action, anyone care to elaborate, so I can draw ideas and have a general frame of reference to work with?

Okay, here's something else, any tips for starting a chapter that isn't action packed? There is action, it just comes later. Chapter 2 of the story I'm working on involves a good bit of writing for the characters to actually get to the point of action.

This is one of my big issues here. I'm having trouble writing sections of the story where there is no action. Honestly I'm not sure what to do. Should I focus on character development, interaction, setting, what the heck should I write?

This isn't as strange an idea as you might think. I actually wrote a medieval-ish fantasy story where most of the races the story revolved around were 'alien' in the context they came from another world. In a nutshell the staple races were being pushed out of their original world by another...

I've also read that when it comes to writing a story someone needs a solid opening line to hook the reader. This isn't always easy to come up with, but I think I may a good one. No matter how confident or strong she tried to be, there was still one weakness Mercedes always seemed to fall victim to.

I've already thought about that and I've tried to see both points of view. Here's a little sample of opposing ideologies between the two of them. Mind you this is a roughly mapped out thought, I haven't actually written this part of the story yet. Gifted with incredible power by the birthright...

I just wanted a little advice on something I'm writing. I'm doing a superhero story in my own modern day setting. I've already worked out a lot of things about the main heroine, but at the same time I want to avoid a number of genre cliches. The hero and her arch-nemesis are sisters, I know this...

Well, for my two cents worth, I don't think it's so much that one word is more important than another, as how they're used. It all depends on the format and situation they're put into. One scene could make a word seem very strong, while another could make it very weak. It's all about how you use...

evolution_rex makes a good point that most elves in modern literature are rips from the Tolkien works. Try looking up elves as they were written according to human mythology and you might find them surprisingly different. I've personally used them, once or twice.

Honestly, when writing stories with a large cast of characters, I find it best to write out a few chapter to see where things go. Often times the characters will, in a way, cast themselves. What I mean by this is that some will turn out to be main characters important to the plot, while others...