Recent content by Lordfisheh

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents...

Honestly, put it in, don't worry about 'acceptable' ages too much. When people are offended, a lot of the time it's because someone made them think about something they didn't want to or from a point of view they preferred not to consider. And making people think and feel something, in my...

Depends if you're writing a transgendered character or a character who is transgendered. With the former, where the character is written around a single attribute, you risk having a gimmicky character, or worse, people will feel like they're having a 'message' rammed down their throat. Make it a...

I wouldn't say we're that ruthlessly focused on survival at all costs. I think the key to writing a good sensitive male character is not to focus on making him a good sensitive male character. Bear gender in mind, but not too closely, or you'll just end up with either a stereotype or an...