Recent content by Coldboots

I like the concept of understanding of tech being outpaced by the capability of making tech function. For instance, using our own modern world's example, certain technologies that have been preserved being seen almost as magical as the methodology for proliferation of the tech has survived, but...

I know what this is like. I'm perfectly fine at coming up with names or have plenty of resources to rely on if I'm not feeling great about naming them. It's just a pain when you're introducing characters left and right in the middle of writing or brainstorming.

A staple of fantasy literature are things that deviate from what we see in the ordinary world, whether it be in contemporary world or in the retrospective view of things in the historical world. Something I've struggled with, is allowing myself to include more and more supernatural elements...

I wouldn't be rude, as that isn't my style, but the question tends to be an idle one in my experience. Many times it seems when you tell them you're writing lately, they seem to expect that you want them to ask about what you're writing. I was just expressing that it's difficult for me...

If you don't mind my opinion, the order you set for regaining her emotional faculties sounds about right in the order you listed them there. Idk, just a random thought.

Hmm, good points I'm seeing here, and good humor as well. Maybe I just need to find a flippant response that can act as an icebreaker: It's a book of elevator pitches.

Thanks, that'll help me from falling off the rails the next time someone asks me. And also helps me from falling off the rails in the writing process.

This is one of the more common questions that I get when I let people know that I'm in the middle of or starting a WIP. "What's your story about?" Does this annoy anyone else, or am I just too obtuse in the head to answer it properly? It's hard to narrow down enough for me to make people...

I don't have much to add, except to commiserate about reading the background info on authors who've led productive lives while all I've done is waffle about. However, life is what you want it to be. In a hundred or a thousand years, most people alive will have been forgotten. All that endures...

... Shows so strongly that even I notice when I'm not motivated to write what I'm writing, and not in any way inspired. However, when I'm on, I'm on like a lightning bolt. I used to love writing and feel I was quite good at it a few years ago when I was writing everyday, but after revisiting...

Sounds good, all. Thanks for the insight, once again. Speaking for myself: If I'm going to be using one character's perspective, as I like to, I tend to be more comfortable in first person. It lends itself to a more casual style. I just have more fun with it and tend to make fewer mistakes...

Thanks for the input, it's all been useful and interesting. I have a question about perspective that I didn't really want to create a new thread for and is in part related to this one. It's similar enough in spirit to my original question not to start a new thread for. What are everyone's...

I recently decided to revisit an old story I had written a long time ago, rewriting it from the beginning in my current style. I decided the hook at the beginning would leave the reader in confusion as to who is who and what is what, so decided to open with a character building scene before the...

I agree with all the above advice regarding legal and emotional issues. As someone with a few hobgoblins in my past, present, and future, I personally wouldn't want to lend them credence by including them in my stories. At least not in a prominent capacity. Use your anger to fuel your...

Thank you all for your insights. I was more troubled by the spiritual implications of writing something that might be considered to be profane, but I suppose if one Christian is willing to see it as a harmless fantasy and not something I'm serious about, God would understand I'm just having fun...