Recent content by Avi Love

I don't know if this will be helpful or not, but I feel like past this point " In each variation he stills has a cute baby sister, a lazy, obnoxious older brother, a domineering, slave-driving....adult" you have no idea what's going on. Now I know that's basically what you're feeling like...

I would actually highly recommend you read some movie scripts. They don't look anything like you think they do, and a script like that would never make it's way up the hollywood chain. It would get chucked in the trash by a reader who reads like 15 of them a week. However due to the fact that...

If they don't bear a lot of importance in the grand scheme of things then I'd say it's ok to leave them a mystery. Don't leave a mystery anything directly necessary to progressing the story. If you don't reveal the usage of an amulet of such-and-such immediately but it contains the magic power...

The best way to stay original: don't. I have encyclopedias of fantasy creatures, science fiction aliens, imaginary settings of all kinds, mythologies, folktales, etc. The ideas you have are the result of the ideas you've encountered. The ability to create new ideas stems from the ability to...

I think the easiest way to describe it with quick reader recognition and not much need to explain would be a two-way mirror. Most people are familiar with them now thanks to crime tv shows, and in fantasy the explanation is often with the goal of metaphorical familiarity rather than scientific...

My immediate thought was similar to Benjamin's. A lot of simple children's games are based on not having something happen rather than having something happen. How about a game where you get the most points/credit for the amount of seconds you can drink from her. However if she passes out while...

It depends to some extent on where your story is going, but I would actually break the standard societal names for the vermin. Maybe something like "The Shroud." This would be indicative that the society exists in clarity and order, but the vermin area is something that exists in opposition to...