Recent content by HylianShield

Real world names really detach a story from Fantasy for me. Some writers, like Elizabeth Haydon, pull it off by mixing real world names with original names, and her main characters all have original names. When I'm reading Fantasy, I don't want to read about Michael or Kevin. I don't want to...

I love describing my characters in action. Here's a passage in which I used a chase to describe a character's clothing. Catching the roof, Vinecci swung and twisted, rolling onto the roof and to his feet, not wanting to miss a moment. The brown vest he wore over his plain white undershirt was...

When you pose these questions, my thoughts go to Metroid for some reason. For a fanfic, I took the Wave Beam and made it into a static projection from emitters on the bottoms of the suit's boots. A Waveboard. You're only limited by your imagination. For instance, G Force. One G is equal to the...

As a reader and a writer, I might caution against too many apostrophes and double letters, lest they grow stale and cliche to your reader. I remember playing a game called Ninety Nine Nights, where every single name of every character and every city had a double vowel in it. It irritated me so...

Here's what I do: I have my idea for the scene. I write the scene with just whatever I have in my mind. It's barebones, skeletal, and passable at best. Once I'm finished getting my idea out, I go back and start adding details, depth, tension, observation, introspection if necessary. I make the...