Recent content by Kasper Hviid

Yeah, I think I might end up making my own creature, actually. But I still need to be aware of what the existing categories are. Like how NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD actively avoided using the word zombie, to distance the living dead from those Haitian ones. (okay, later movies decided to call them...

Okay, I can see that I'm pretty clueless about the tropes at play. Had no idea dark fae was related to winter ... "predatory side of nature", though, that I get. I ... okay, I didn't knew the word drow, but an image search showed them to be quite different. I found this article, by the way...

One of my characters felt a little undefined; I hadn't quite nailed her down yet. Then suddenly I realized that she was a dark fae. But I don't really know much about this trope, so I wonder how to go about making it instantly recognizeable? Here's my notes so far (which may be dead wrong) In...

I have a mind-reading antagonist too. Here's how I go about it:

I want my writing to be alive and invested. I don't really like the mechanical step-by-step approach of "Dummy's guide to...". Before writing the post, I tried doing an internet search on this, but all the top results were in the vein of "How to write a non-fiction book in 5 easy steps" ... :-/

I'm working on a small book about surveillance. Mot as much about the potential danger of having your data used against you, but more about the emotional response; why is it that some people react so negatively to being under constant monitoring from governmental and commercial bodies, and why...

I'm going slightly offtopic here, okay? But not too much. Now, an area of mundaneness I try to incorporate myself are those bits of life experience that can make the story feel like the real deal. For instance, in "Insomnia" a Stephen King novel I'm currently stuck in, it is mentioned how each...

For new concepts, a fave hack of mine is turning existing words into nouns. So I would go for "their double-edge" or maybe "their ambivalent".

1) Take inspiration from yourself. You have a literal lifetime of research. Don't your punches. Try to really dig into your most personal stuff and put it to use. 2) Give the reader a solid core that can easily be summarized in a single line. The butch lesbian. The stoic warrior. The stupid...

fatal fateful terminal the last straw coup de grâce fatality (Mortal Combat)

In my spam folder, I found a message titled I have animal desire to have sex with you.. "animal desire". Such a cool expression! I opened the message: I'd say, that's a pretty good setup. The lesbian background is a smart way of making the 27 old somewhat "virginal". The idea of the...

In theory, yes. But if we look at this forum, we need to make double line breaks for paragraph breaks, and the lines continues far too long for comfort. Might look better on a mobile phone. Still, I think an A5 .pdf is a safer bet. For some reason, the .pdf has become a standard for "serious...

I have a little short story almost ready, but I'm unsure about how exactly I should present it. A4 is best for normal printing. But the lines are too long for comfort unless you make the margins really big. A5 looks good on screen and zine printing is pretty easy with Acrobat Reader. But A5...

Yeah, it's tricky. Sometimes when you read it, you do this double-take where you go "Hey, word repetition! ... Well okay, it's intentional".

Oh, I'm absolutely game! (unless you use the term in the meaning "Animals to be hunted down and killed")