Recent content by Guy

Mine are drop dead gorgeous.

Here are the limitations I use in my stories. Healing magic and potions enhance and accelerate the body's healing abilities, but that's all. They can't get the body to do something it's completely incapable of doing. Under the right conditions, it could reattach a severed limb, but it could not...

In order to contain the weight of the creature's innards, an exoskeleton on a giant animal would be heavy as hell. As far as insects go, respiration is also an issue. At their current size, air pressure is enough to fill the air sacks they breathe with. An ant the size of a horse would need...

“I create gods, and I have proven myself your superior in every way!” “Not quite. I’m still prettier.” “A useless piece of fluff, that’s what you are,” he sneered, “too foolish to see that it’s already too late. I captured you and Baezha, the great Death Queens, as easily as putting on my...

I make a distinction between authenticity readers and sensitivity readers. I think most of the examples people have given here are what I would file under authenticity readers. Learning about a demographic so one can create an accurate portrayal would be going for authenticity, which leads to...

I've always thought the advice to never use a standard part of speech to be rather absurd. I see adverbs much the same way I see exclamation points - they shouldn't be all over the place, but there are times when that's what's called for.

Seems a little like being tired of seeing horses in westerns, but whatever. Like Queshire said, everybody has their own tastes.

Yeah, what y'all said was pretty much what my gut was telling me. But, hell, maybe I can always be wrong.

Like the title says. I did a search and found nothing. Ever use them? Are they worth it?

It's a compulsion. Scenes, descriptions, dialogues, etc. are always in my head. It's a background program constantly running in my brain and needs an outlet. I can't not write.

Yes. Aleena Kurrin is a divinely gifted warrior and Baezha Ambrose is a divinely gifted sorceress. They started out as D&D characters when I was a teen and snowballed from there.

No. How can we possibly predict these things? How could the Beatles know Charles Manson would fixate on Helter Skelter? Are we to produce no art for fear of someone committing an atrocity? Madmen will always do mad things, regardless of what we do.

A bastard sword is also known as a hand-and-a-half sword - it's neither a true one-hander or a true two-hander but an attempt to split the difference between the two. The blade is as long as or slightly longer than the blade of a one-hander, but the hilt is long enough to accomodate two hands.

From a purely logical, practical aspect, I understand the wisdom of #1. The thing is, I'm not a marketer, salesman, or promoter. I'm a writer. When I imagine my target audience, I think of myself as a boy, thirsting for good stories to get swept up in, portals that could take me from this world...

2 and 4, I guess. I have a general idea of what the story is and start writing. As I write, more issues come to light. That's when I have to start making notes and rough outlines, so I can resolve those issues and fill in the gaps, close the plot holes, and polish it up.