Recent content by LittleOwlbear

Personally, I don't understand what you are going for? The writing style is supposed to go into the "dumb brute"-route, but the content of the thoughts is quite interesting at its core ... so he can't be a dumb brute? Is the thought supposed to be written in the orc's own language? He won't...

I think authors should refrain from portraying characters as stupid most of the time anyway. Viewing people as stupid often means you haven't looked close enough to recognize the real reasons behind their actions, or people are mistaking education for intelligence. It's often a pretty lazy...

How? Pullman's whole worldbuilding and motif is about critizing religious institutions.

Yes, they are called Elben in the German version, so I dunno. Well, I wouldn't mind, but I don't like Christians morals in fantasy that are veiled as something else. Whole society is, or has been, trying to shove Christians ideals down people's throat. No, please don't. I find "I will pray for...

There are a few tropes I always hate: - abusive relationships including the "bad boys", possessive behaviorn, jealousy etc... - men that are like untamed animals and growl every five minutes. I know he's a werewolf, he still is in human form right now. That is so cringe I put it away, also...

I don't get this either. My main character is bit more analytical towards situations, people and themselves. So these are just their inner thoughts. I think their pov is more describing than other povs. It's best to balance it, but it still depends on you

It's not the writing I dislike, but ... - the romanticization of monarchy with "the one true king that needs to return" - the various Christian allegories, he's almost on the same level as Lewis with this - the immortal elbs that hold up his Christian sexual morals like no sex before marriage...

I also go with people, and add their relationships (romantic, platonic, family, mentor-student ...), because I daydream about various characters since I'm like 7, 8 yo. Of course the characters and their depth changed a lot as I got older, but the core never changed that my stories are made up...

I don't think you can fully avoid it, because you will mostly come up with the same solutions real cultures did. The core of cultures is formed by climate and geography, with the food you can find or grow, with the type of material you can build houses and temples and so on... So when you...

In some way, I do hang out with them. They are in my daydreams and they follow me everytime I write. So yes, I only create main characters I like personally, because I couldn't stand having characters around, who I dislike or hate. It's bit different for side characters tho.

I always had a vivid imagination and created characters in my head. I thought it would be a nice way to spend my time to put these pictures in my head onto paper. That is pretty much all. There are other fictional works, like Avatar and some romances (or what I want to read in a romance) that...

I love them and use a protagonist like that. For once, they are working as a professor, so of course, it's their job to "info dump". Also they are a big nerd, so ... I really love characters with special interests yapping about them. Not a "know it all", just a yapping nerd. It needs to come...

Absolutely spot on and very human and likeable arguments. I also recommend to listen to Miyazaki's take, if you are interested in. The only use I can find in AI: it finds spelling and grammar mistakes that Word doesn't mark. At the same time it often tries to rewrite my sentences, even in my...

It only becomes an issue, if you overuse it, it's the same with everything. You can overuse the "[Dialogue line]." [Action]-strategy too. People don't do something, or change their voice or facional expression, everytime they say a new sentence. Some things are just... said.

Jed Herne is a likeable guy in general and he had some nice advice. I have mixed feelings about the channel in general tho. He's highly reader- and commercial-orientated and it deeply displeases me to write a book with a market audience in mind and having this highly commercial mindset...