Recent content by Badgerfrog

“You needn’t worry, you may remain in the waiting room when we arrive at the palace.” She said. Not funny out of context, but I got a chuckle out of ending a chapter with this line.

It's interesting going down the list and seeing how many I knew off the top of my head for a series I'm working on. But then it got me thinking about whether I'd really displayed all that much of my knowledge in the script itself, so thanks for raising interesting questions.

"Loose framework" means different things to different people and for different stories/settings. For me a framework is enough to start if I really need to get something down on paper, but it's also about 4 hours of frantic typing just to outline a broad timeline and bullet point history for the...

The obvious comparison is squibs, so unless you want people making that comparison you'll need to do something to differentiate them. Also the addiction aspect seems like it'd have a pretty huge effect on how they'd raise children and on how education would work. Additionally, some questions...

I wrote a bunch, often just worldbuilding thought exercises or gibberish but sometimes short stories or outlines, in a google doc. I don't consciously remember starting, might have just been inspired by a book or something a few years ago. All of it got deleted when I got bored of a concept...

Edward is fine, Eddie might be a stretch but you could make it work depending on the setting.

I've been thinking about mind magic, not as the whole system but a part of it. Kinda like psychics, but they're incredibly limited in anything but basic telepathy and some illusions, except against other mind mages who are more vulnerable because they open themselves up to it by reaching out...

Rather than worrying about whether a setting or plot is realistic, instead ask whether the people involved act compellingly. Is Discworld realistic? Are Malazan's blade-armed space velociraptors realistic? Do we care? Much of the greatest dialogue is incredibly unrealistic, real people aren't...

The better question is, why would you deprive your characters of pizza? More seriously, rather than asking if it could exist, ask yourself instead whether pizza's existence helps you tell the sort of story you want to tell, or whether it might instead distract readers.

With fantasy, my personal method is to first ask myself what sort of words the locals would come up with/use. Often that involves visualizing what their spoken language might sound like, then imagining some similar sounding words that aren't words to them anymore(to simulate names based on...