Recent content by balthore

How long is your chapter right now? And if you want I can take a look at it and see if I can't come up with something. I'm pretty good at finding ways to add in angst to a story. :)

You could call it a "Mass Zap Storage Device"?

Just turned 37...mind of a 18 year old, body of a 81 year old I was waaaaay too reckless with my body when I was younger. Now paying for it in pain.

Like Chilari, music is a huge influence on my writing. My roommate will be watching TV or something and I'll just put on my nice headphones and zone out while I write. And my music is based on what I'm trying to write most times. The more angst I'm trying to have, the heavier the music is. I...

I co-wrote a fanfic for Valentines day. I wrote the male side and their quest for the "perfect" gift, and she wrote the women's side. The final part was her writing the aftermath of the gift giving. She wrote the romantic aspect better, and my side was full of angst and conflict (my gift was...

Love the idea for this. My squishiest line ever used... "I am but a mortal man. What do I know of the heart of an angel?" (One man looking at his new wife while talking to his best friend.) One of my fav exchanges... "What do you mean no weapons? How are we supposed to defend ourselves?"...

Anywhere and everywhere. Most of the writing I get done now is at home or at work when I have a break in duties. Basically if I have my computer with me, I'll drag it out to write if I have a chance. But I have been known to scribble down scenes, quotes, or other random ideas about...

I have a jump drive that is always on my car key chain with me that I keep updated, another that stays in my fire safe, I also save to a couple online spots, my stories are stored on the card of my phone, I have hard copies, they are on my computer at work and (don't tell) actually backed up on...

The plot line you are using sounds very much like the storyline from The Little Mermaid, so I would be a bit cautious about making things too similar to that. It does sound like the ending is going to be different, which will be interesting when it comes to how it effects the gnomes. A couple...

Many of my larger stories deal with the death/murder, often tragic and brutal in nature, of someone very close to the main char in my stories. It is often the spark that changes the char in one way or another, and not always for the best either. In other stories the theme that comes out...

Eragon was one of those books/movies you picked up when you wanted something enjoyable, but not something you really wanted to think while doing. There were no unpredictable plot twists and you could easily guess what was going to happen next. There are times I enjoy stuff like that, and times...

Another situation I thought of when naming a weapon would be needed is in the case of an animated weapon. If you have a weapon with a true personality, you can't just call it "hey you"...might hurt it's feelings. Waaaaay back we had a Warhammer RP session, and the GM had a animated Battleaxe...

I always have trouble with hair as well. Usually I stick to the simple "light, dark, brown, black, white, grey, blonde" type descriptions unless I want to really point out something special. Any advice on this would help me as well.

Long ago I wrote a story that revolved around seven weapons that were forged in the "who knows how long distant past". Encased within each was the "warrior soul" of a God. The God who's soul was put into each weapon got to name the weapon. An apt time to have a named weapon. The Dwarven God...

Telcontar brings up some good points. I've been in my fair share of violent confrontations and there is very little time for internal dialogue during the act itself. So in my writing I try to convey that, although my fight scenes in my fanfic have been rather bland compared to what I know...