Recent content by HabeasCorpus

Since when did authors start caring about being offensive?

I think this would be an opportunity to create a particular title and term unique to your world - rather than a generic term, base it off something one of the underlying aspects of the job. To take your example, IT, information technology is based around the idea of everything to do with the...

So, by assigning the term 'trope' to the theme of good v evil, the entire theme has been reduced to obscurity and borederline derision. As a result, the rise of the morally ambiguous or gray characters has been swift and is itself quickly approaching 'trope' status. My question, poorly...

Hey all, In case no one has heard of it yet (I just recently came across it from an artist friend), there is a smaller scale kickstarter site that might be more conducive to unestablished writers out there as a way to get their work out and establish a following. Check it out. Also, if...

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Rothfuss, through Kvothe, does a fair bit of bashing of the traditional cliches - and then uses them, though I suppose it isn't the cliches themselves he bashes, just the way it's done. A lot of it came across as pretty arrogant, but that could be the character I'm picking up there and not the...

Coming from the perspective of someone who has suffered their way through more education than he can probably afford, and seeing as I'm not a professional fiction writer, please take what I have to say with a moderate amount of salt. To say that a degree will help you become a better writing...

I'm approaching the point where I am going to really start creating my cast of characters and, while I have some ideas of what types of personalities will bring about what I'm writing towards, nothing is that fleshed out. One tool I was considering using were the various personality types from...

Minor bit of thread necromancy here, but I wanted to just say that I appreciate what you're trying to accomplish here Mindfire. The system I'm working on is similar to yours in that it does not fall into a category that is already specifically delineated. That said, I don't think there's much...

Paid. By. The. Word. Longer = M04R M0N33

I'm really enjoying the responses so far! The festival or other national/regional events created to evoke, encourage, develop emotive capacity and expression are something I hadn't considered. The question I have to deal with then is the why of it, which is always fun to do. I am going to be...

Feel free to move it where it's most appropriate. My only thinking was that it had to do with the actually act of writing...

Seriously, I can't stand sitting here tacking away on the keyboard, listening to the machination of the computer steal away the organic nature of writing. I've never noticed this before when writing, but now that I'm sitting and trying to do something deliberately creative, I'm repulsed and...

Road to Chicago from the Road to Perdition soundtrack by Thomas Newman... good for subdued scenes/introspection

What is the function of the clothing? Is it to camouflage, attract a mate, enable for better fighting? Is practicality even a concern in the culture? Are there different social classes that need to be represented differently? Those are the questions I'd ask myself if I were in a situation...