Recent content by Lorn Ashby

Are these truly separate worlds? Or two hemispheres that are really the same world? If separate hemisphere worlds, I think you'd need to know how something like that could physically exist, and what is on the exposed flat surface. If the same world, what's keeping the inhabitants of these...

I have a similar problem. Drive is a mess no matter how often I reorganize it. I've solved this for the actual writing because I move the current version of everything into Scrivener (which I've had forever). I do a lot of editing in Scrivener, but prefer Docs for wholesale writing. For me...

I have a similar, annoying issue with a word. I've decided not to bother trying to find something better for now, because it's a huge time suck. The world has rings, and I'm tired of saying "the rings' glow" and things like that. But I figure that something will eventually come to mind. Maybe...

Hi! Also new here :)

Same as Prince of Spires - I used to think you had to map out a lot of character backstory before beginning. But I've found that something happens when I finally get into a writing habit and have some pages with these people under my belt. For the POV, to start I really just needed to pick...

We have a great advantage over writers from decades and centuries ago: it's easy to change things. It's possible that king v emperor will, in fact, matter, and you just don't know it yet. I run into this all the time myself and have trained myself to pick one and run with it. If I change my...

Hello! I'm excited to join the community. Resident in New York and had been putting off writing for, well, decades. I'm not about 100k words into something and looking to get and give some energy. My studies (long ago) were in Folklore and Mythology. My work has been in data and operations...