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Can't help but be curious now: what would you recommend cinematically for accurate depictions of medieval warfare? Same question to you. You gotta top three for spot-on cinematic depiction?

Everyone has a philosophy, and there is probably at least one philosopher who fairly well represents the believe system of anyone, were they to think their belief system through. Certainly. To say "philosophy is bad" would be as inane as saying "thinking is bad." Even philosophers I find...

What if he thinks he's in a video game, at the climax gets plugged into a machine that the doctors promise will send him into the real world. As he lays on the table, plugged in and catatonic, the POV switches to a long, ominous scene of the doctors taking his vitals and making notes. At the...

it was all a dream.... jk. I hate that trope. I really like how much thought you've put into the plot. I like the mc being kind of an asshole in both realities and having to deal with that, that's raw and I think you're on the right track. I would suggest EITHER "steal like an artist" and...

The one little monologue I can think of from any of my work: ..... The captain turned and locked eyes with Gamel. He was older, with a clean shaven head and brutish face, broad shouldered, his eyes narrowed and face turned in a scowl. "I love this ship," He said in the husky voice Gamel...

I've got an alien character in my space fantasy named BeginAgain. Everybody calls him Beg. A nickname of a nickname. Have I explained why his nickname is Beginagain? Nope. Why? Because I have no idea why he is called Beginagain. It's just what came out of my little fingertips.

MeatBricks... NightNight... Clock... Stars... The really good ones are based on stories though. Like with a boxer, maybe "Pinkie," cause during a fight a decade ago they actually got a whole pinkie finger ripped off, but still finished the fight. Even if the pinkie finger got put back on...

The greatest adventure, Is what lies ahead! (In the voice of Glenn Yarbrough from the 1970s Hobbit cartoon, obv.)

I'm sure it's mostly just random chance, whatever sticks, but in the three seeming categories of nickname (Personality, Physical characteristic, Legacy), I wonder why choose one over the other. Did forkbeard not do anything notable, or did he and Sven the Notable was already taken? If people...

I partially agree, but tbh if someone told me blackbeards beard was actually brown I'd believe them. Reputation and legend account for alot more than fact when it comes to nicknames and titles. Take Bloody Mary for example; while she was responsible for a lot of persecution, the nickname had...

1. People can swap outlandish stories about the character when the character isn't there. "I heard he can vanish at will, in a cloud of red smoke. Laughing. They all say he's always laughing." 2. I do think there's alot of power in name choice. Try using illiteration (King Kron, The Black Blade...

Reminds me of the story of Day Boy and Night Girl a little. I'm with pmmg it's a fine backdrop, tell me about the Story.

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256-bit AES is industry standard and the same that Google uses. Probably plenty for writing unless you're Stephen King and subject to be specifically targeted, but not the best for personal data. Googles privacy policy is the problem; your data could be accessible by Google employees and...

Tell DONT show?!? gasp, swoon, glance around for fainting couch. Great article! I agree with you and hope the common advice that anything shorter than 120k words won't get published is going away. I love the tomes, but I think the number of "epics that could have been a novella" is increasing.