Well, I think one of the things many people don't take into consideration is the social state of the people doing the reading. Back over a 100...
Work, the kind that pays the bills. I suffer from it all the time. My job has me going to various places to work for different clients....
The biggest thing to remember on books about writing is that they don't teach you how to write, they try and teach you how to think. How do you...
Liquid story binder, it is an interesting program, and it had one feature I found worth paying them for...timeline. It isn't really that...
Writing software is only valuable if it helps you organize what you are doing and write more. I have been working with LSB which is interesting,...
The other main point of showing the character is that if you expect the reader to gain a form of connection with that character, then the fastest...
My typical way of knowing when to tell something is that when I'm trying to write it I find I'm bored with it. Can you summarize it, yes. You...
I actually think people learning to string together good words is very important. There are so many badly written stories, the content becomes...
My only problem with it is that they have taken good books out of the standard shelves to put them in a new marketing group called...YA. Just...
My point is that not all fantasy is world ending, but it is a very common theme. To me, the world ending plot is so cliche I really can't find...
Being that I read both, but mainly write scifi, I doubt that the writers are really the issue. There are good writers on both sides, but scifi is...
Maybe use more than just crystals? For some abilities crystals work best, others metals, and maybe even a few require simpler things like water,...
Work, morons who change timelines because it fits what they want over reality...which leads to more work, long hours, and a mental tiredness that...
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I haven't seen them overused myself. I use them all the time in my fiction, but most of my use of them is data storage. :) I write more scifi...