Recent content by Christopher Wright

Well, good luck solving this problem! :-)

If your goal is to make Leogaire not an idiot but have him be discovered, the trick I think is to make Cadell smarter. Perhaps Cadell has a spell of his own that would prevent Loegaire from leaving except through the way he entered? Thresholds are traditionally somewhat powerful among the fae...

Have him leave something important downstairs that he needs to get before he can leave. Have it be important enough that Loeghaire decides he has to risk retrieving it. And if what he considers important is actually not so much (i.e., money or something) you also get to give him an exploitable...

Meh. I'm not going to get all worked up about it. Jim Davis does very little of Garfield any more, and everyone knows hit. It's still "Garfield, by Jim Davis" and it still makes him ridiculous sums of money. And think of the songwriters. Some dude may have written a song, but it's still "x's...

OP: eleventy-pants times. Any more than that is just too much.

Apparently Voltaire said "the perfect is the enemy of the good" (I say "apparently" because people tend to believe Voltaire said everything) and I like it.

The best time for me to write is "whenever I get the chance." Usually these days that's at night, after my daughter has gone to bed. The problem there is that The Best Time To Write is also The Best Time To Sleep. So it's a challenge.

I actually agree with Little Storm Cloud here. An author can choose to write anything he or she likes--I'll always defend that--but no reader has an obligation to like anything, for any reason. A reader is allowed to be picky and unreasonable and inconsistent and irrational about what they love...

I don't see how that would be. Past tense: He walked to the store, thinking about the things he had to do that day. Suddenly a car screeched around the corner, flipped over, and crashed into a mailbox. Letters flew through the air like confetti. Present tense: He walks to the store, thinking...

The words do whatever I tell them to. ;-)

You really have to make sure that the two of you are compatible as writers, but it can work. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are as famous for their collaborative works as they are for their solo works. The trick is, the way you work has to work with the way the other writer works. Before you...

I have a serial I'm publishing where everything is written in present tense. The reason I do this is because I'm trying to emulate, through prose, the feel of a "comic book story," and present tense gives you a sense of immediacy that is similar to looking at pictures. Present tense is very...

How are you going to get the text to do that disappearing scrolling thing? I think that's your biggest hurdle. ;-)

The problem is when it's already been associated with another author's name. Unless you've reviewed 100 books, you don't get librarian rights (or whatever they call it) so you either need to contact their help to get them to switch it over, or you need to get someone you know who has edit rights...

Yeah, Shadow Fox, I'd like to know why you feel so confident you know how the magic system in my world works better than I do. I think this would be a fascinating topic of conversation.