Recent content by ladyander

I would assume that it would cause issues. Scar tissue will form because that's how your body can repair itself. However, a lot of scar tissue is bad. Usually they perform surgeries to minimize scar tissue because it can affect motion and one's flexibility. On a surface level, the scar itself...

I don't see twists as even one goal of a story. I don't go into writing a story thinking about how many twists I can add. They just happen as part of the story's progression. Now, if I was writing something that depends on a plot twist, certainly I will give it thought. However, I like subtle...

I wouldn't bother with Wattpad. Despite it coming up on searches everywhere and recommendations from content writers never used a writing platform in their life. To many writers in the web fiction circle, it's not a great platform. Reasons not to use Wattpad is the very reason people claim it's...

It's basically Amazon's attempt at serial fiction. It's becoming a more popular thing in the western world. However, more popular in Asian countries. Web series generally are posted for free unless you get a large enough audience to help support you. They mostly attract writers such as me who...

I'm really not a fan of short stories. I don't read many at all to be honest. I can't even tell you the last time I've gone out of my way and read a short story. It had probably been several years. Okay, maybe I might read the short-stories at the end of the Tor newsletter, but I rarely read the...

It's not something I add to all my character voices and even stories. Heck, even in my current series, I tend to have a single character who does internal dialogue. Mostly when he's thinking one thing and has to filter himself when he speaks, if he manages to filter himself. It's a little...

It's not really about writing anything that is worth reading. I know a lot of people treat it like that. They want to write a novel that they can publish and then edit afterwards. I think February is seen as NaNo editing month. Maybe it's March, it's been a bit. I always thought of it as just...

What I would like to see is less epic fantasy. I want to see more stories that are smaller in scale. Saving a single town from nonsense that doesn't go beyond the gates of that town is fun. And if it is a series, it doesn't lose sight of itself by unnecessarily scaling up to the point the...

As a writer, you have to learn to create something with an audience in mind, but have no expectation for said audience. You can't go into wanting to create something and looking for validation for reasons to create it. It'll be the end of your motivation, you will start questioning yourself...

Wow, good job.

I can listen to music while writing. It's not something I need all the time. I'm equally fine with silence. I don't listen to vocal, I like instrumental music. So I'm a huge TSFH fan though I argue I'm more of a Thomas Bergersen fan though. I like Marcus Warner, AudioMachines, Lindsey Sterling...

An unreliable narrator is simple, a narrator who tells the story through a lens that contradicts or misleads the reader from the actual events in the story. This can be done purposely because the character wants to deceive the reader or they do so because their understanding of the events is...

I mean, this is something very up to your story's setting and "era" isn't a setting. What is around your characters to use as a prank? What can they access easily? Where do they go that can be the setting of the prank, and who do they want to prank, and what would it take for that...

I think it's okay to view a story through the lens of the heroes journey. However, my issue with it is that it's often seen as the only way to write a story or the only way to view a story. That not everything needs to be written to fit a hero's journey, neither does every story need to be...

In my currently world. It's already a bit of a low magic world meaning that magic use is exclusive to a certain body of people. Taking out the magical bits, the story would still exist. I could still have the same characters, it's just that their function would be different. The focus really...