Recent content by cydare

It's very much the same for me! And when I sketch, I fix it many, many times before I'm even remotely satisfied and start with the colours.

Another little thing with possibly atrocious Japanese. It's been a few years since my studies and I've just started up again! The character on the right is mine, the one on the left belongs to a friend (elegant-atrocities on tumblr, though look her up only if you're 18+ since her art is rather...

I wanted to throw in a suggestion to read Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman if you haven't already. They've got an interesting (and hilarious) way of discussing angels and demons, and two of the main characters are an angel and demon trying to work together to stop Armageddon.

I have a problem where I over-focus on the characters before writing. This leaves me with too many characters, many of which I'd planned out in detail but can't include much of (or at all) if I want the story to flow. Because the story is always shifting, I also have to deal with major...

Thank you so much for all the responses! You've brought up points I hadn't thought of before, and suggestions on how to work through the problem through different angles than the ones I was trying. I'll be keeping all of this in mind as I try to find the voice I want and continue with my...

The more details you put in regarding the physics and biology which might make humanoid flight possible, the more readers are likely to nit-pick at your work and find mistakes in your theories. This isn't to discourage you from research - I like stories that are ground in some form of reality...

Most of my writing is on a computer I currently do not have access to, but I can show you two pieces of my current WIP for now? They're as telling as my other work, I'm sorry. The first one is what I mean to be the story's start. I've been working on fixing it for quite some tome now, so I...

When I was younger I used to write with excessive detail, turning everything I touched purple. I was on a definite path of improvement and reached a better balance before some troubles stopped me from writing for a few years years. Fast forward to this year when I've picked up the craft...

You absolutely can! I always welcome feedback and hope to improve.

What if you compromise between the two? Ariel knows the prince means to kill his father, but has the wrong idea of when and how he'd do it. That way, she knows what's at stake and has more agency, but the details of what will happen in your story aren't revealed. Perhaps she thinks the prince...

I'm reading Six of Crows right now, and am very pleasantly surprised in how much better I like it than the last novel I read by the author (Shadow and Bone, which definitely wasn't for me).

Another suggestion to add is ground long paragraphs of internal monologue by adding in some action. Ideally, she'd be physically pushing part of the plot forward (Getting to city X, creating object Y, etc), but every-day basic stuff is okay too. Even if she's alone in a room with only her...

Thanks! She's able to communicate via telepathy with the pistol's owner but no one else can hear her. Though she can't control the pistol, she has a level of supernatural influence over the owner. She's almost like a second mind within him, pushing to control his actions. The owner himself (who...

One of the main characters in a story I have IS a gun. Due to an experiment gone wrong, she (and an associate) are stuck in a pair of pistols. I'm not sure if that counts as enchanted.

A few years back, my little sister got really sick and I would stay home with her. She wasn't allowed to move from her bed or do anything, so I'd sit by her side and read her stories. Eventually, I started making up one of my own, with her as the main character. It was a fantasy setting, but I'd...