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Demesnedenoir replied to the thread Do you have any characters that are 'goblin coded' ?.What the old folks call hedonists? heh heh. -
Demesnedenoir replied to the thread Starting your book.Write it. Figure it out later. Start the book with a war scene that you say you can't do, because there are no rules, and when you...
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yes, when i'm not reading fantasy its 19th century classics or neuroscience articles and texts. The quality of writing in the latter has...
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This is, as is self-evident, the origin of the phrase "tough as snails"
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I have it on good authority that snails of the day were actually pretty tough. They are what the holy hand grenade was initially...
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Demesnedenoir reacted to pmmg's post in the thread Why Do People Suddenly Hate Superheroes with
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My term for this is CGI boring. Recently, I was watching the movie 'They Were Expendable', an old John Wayne movie. In it, there is a... -
Demesnedenoir replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.The dragon should save the knight from the princess. I always wanted to be rescued by a dragon. I hate no tropes. I do hate the word trope.
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Demesnedenoir replied to the thread Why Do People Suddenly Hate Superheroes.I'm also sick of super heroes. Have been for years. Over a decade at least, and I didn't like that many to begin with. They simply don't...
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Demesnedenoir reacted to Aldarion's post in the thread Mongol Invasion of Hungary 1241, Part 1 – The Invasion with Like.
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Demesnedenoir reacted to Aldarion's post in the thread Mongol Invasion of Hungary 1241, Part 1 – The Invasion with Like.
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Demesnedenoir replied to the thread PoV.I'm used to reading present tense—or I was—from screenwriting, so it doesn't phase me. I'll have to post a bit of a chapter sometime and...
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I've read a few novels by R. Scott Bakker, where he switches from third person past tense to third person present tense for 1 particular...