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One of the rules I made for myself says: "Show the society as it could be, not point fingers at what you think is wrong."

If you followed the Iron Pen challenges and my entries into it, you may already have read about the city of Bazaarat. The first professionally edited and published story set there is now available in the third Theme-Thology anthology, New Myths. Mythic Scribes as a community has brought me...

I partly agree with Addison. I think it's simpler though: Publishing companies are, by their very nature as a large entity, rather cautious when it comes to 'interesting topics.' You might call it somewhat conservative. They need to consider the potential of a work to appeal to a large audience...

Tails are the only thing about toys that count. Especially if they are tall tails. I tell a tall tail from time to time myself. As such, I totally resonate with your dog. My sofa needs more pillows.

belittle - what else could it be?

I think Blue Lotus' answer hints at why we might not see too many stories take that path... it crosses over into no-no-land for too many modern people.

He'd crossed the line, and now it was dead, as was the night, and he'd soon be too. He dangled the phone from its cut extension cord, no more grace period for that writer's career of his. It would rest in pieces, there was just no point in negotiating over dead lines.

"Everything I need to know, I can learn on Facebook." Hehehe

Yeah, I second whatSeverinR says. Either the eye is kaputt, then there are no tear ducks intact. Or the eye is only 'blinded' in the sense that the lenses have become opaque... this would mean the character sees light/dark and possibly some shapes (a door, window) but nothing concrete. This kind...

Outtake from the current storyline: Reemu: "And we could raise goats." Awynn: "What's a goat?" Reemu: "You don't know what a goat is?!" Awynn: "No. Describe one to me." Reemu: "Ok. It has cloven hooves, that's like a horse, just split in two. And it has this white little beard under its chin, a...

HEY! PHIL! Share the cookies? Happy B-Day, yeah? Here's to many more where that one came from. (The Day. But we can talk cookies too, if you like. Got some?)

There's a song the SCA used to sing in these instances: (to the tune of Walzing Mathilda) "Freaking the Mundanes, Freaking the Mundanes, who'll come a Freaking the Mundanes with me..."

if ever I write a book on writing, I will want to ask to quote you. Very nicely said! "It is your bully, in my story." Yes.

The difference to a movie being that in film you have several channels to draw a picture (here mainly visual)... while in story you only have the prose. You can't do setting 'in parallel' like in film.

Right, clothing can be important for the setting. And I agree that more detail might be good early on. Later in the story - setting and characters established - what matters is what is *different*. So detail is important if it sets things apart.