Recent content by evolution_rex

I like to use the end of chapters as a stopping point, and because I personally have problems reading more than 30 or so pages in one sitting, I tend to appreciate smaller chapters. I would say I’m happiest with Michael Crichton-leveled chapters. However, it never really comes to play when...

I think what you’re saying is like what I mentioned, it is not a literal child just merely looks like one. And like others have said, the idea is very discomforting. It sounds like to me the romance is the more important dynamic, and that the goblin looking like a child is inconsequential. So...

Uhh... do you mean ‘looks like’ he’s 12-15 mean that there some kind of magical element that has made him just merely appear that age? Or do you mean to say the character is literally that age? If its the former, you might have an argument for it, because appearances don’t necessarily mean...

I actually think the opposite unless we’re talking tongue-twisters. Alliteration in moderate amounts rolls off the tongue well. In slip knox’s post he used the words ‘poetic passage’ and it felt really satifying and smooth to say. Doesn’t particularly matter to me if I did it by accident, if I...

If I want to do a straight high fantasy, I feel very inclined to write the story in a typical european medival age a la Lord of the Rings. Its classic status makes those types of stories very satisfying. It’s very hard to write though because how tired out it is. On the other hand, fantasy with...

Any crime that is unsolved is a mystery, so I don’t think it works. You need a word describe the unusual sci-fi aspect.

I haven’t had anyone tell me to use other words than said since high school, and only then it was teachers who just wanted to encourage a high vocabulary. When you read dialogue, the ‘he/she said’ lines tend to disappear because the reader naturally focuses the words being spoken. So, to...

I think that unless you’re specifically writing a comedy I’m not sure going out of your way to tell jokes is the right thing to do (unless of course you’re a particularly funny and witty individual, but you wouldn’t be asking if that was the case [no offense]) I would also suggest situational...

I agree with everything Devora said. To me, all I see are basic premises, and so what I usually do after coming up with one of those are to start coming up with random details. You must have an idea or two for a scene or visual. Start building details around what you know about the story so far...

I don’t typically like romantic side plots. They often come off as seperate from the story and feel like filler. My thought processes during these thing are usually something like this: “oh okay yeah so they gave each other a passing glance...oh okay yeah they’re gonna fall in love with each...

Anyone ever see the movie Primer? Some very, very hard to grasp time travel elements in that movie. And that was sort of the movie’s point, it’s gimmick even. It sold the movie to people and allowed the director, a nobody in the business, to go on and direct two other movies. I really, really...

I do a form of this. As I write, I always imagine it as scenes in a movie, so when things get really big or fantastic I visualize it like a movie and if the visual affects of this hypothetical movie feels excessive or not believable then it indicates to me that I should strip some stuff down. I...

Even though there are hypotheticals I could never find myself enjoying reading, I do not think any content is off limits. What is more important to me is what that content says about the author and what the author is attempting to say. Two horror novels could have the same gruesome, violent...

I don’t have much to add for this specific case so isn’t entirely useful information but here’s a point to think about: My brother, who is gay, has often talked to me about the annoying trope in TV shows of introducing a romance between two men only to kill off one of them, leaving the...

I don’t think these people exist. The idea of becoming famous for being an author is, well, extremely unlikely. People write because they like it, they believe they’re good at it, or because they believe they can make some money from it (but even then, the chances of making anything worth while...