Recent content by Miles Lacey

It's been a crazy week so I haven't had time to write anything on this thread. Hero's journey and heroine discovering herself combined has always been a popular theme. I've always liked tough female characters so that fits in well with what I am aiming for.

If truth be told I never thought about it in that way but I can see why the story would come across that way. I largely saw it as a hero's journey adventure story.

Some excellent reading options here. I will check them out when time allows.

I ultimately decided that the antagonist wanted to make the main character disappear. It is more ambiguous than to state his aim is to kill or capture her.

Oh crap. Don't tell me that something I had thought was an original story has been done before! Or were you referring to my assessment of the Lolita book?

I have read Lolita and also saw the film of the same name that starred Jeremy Irons. It was a very good book and i can certainly understand why it's very controversial even in this day in age. Lolita is younger than my main character as I decided my main character had to be at least the age of...

Good point about letting NPCs in video games date other NPCs. Not sure how it would work in a setting where quartets rather than couples are the norm. But still very interesting.

The thing with the ‘fade to black’ suggestion is that I think it really is dependent on whether it would fit the themes of the story and the style of narrative. If you’re writing an epic fantasy series that explores the darker side of the human condition where we are already exposed to the harsh...

I would except that my maths is even worse than my ability to attract a partner of either gender.

I remember reading a book about young United Nations aid workers who became disillusioned with how the United Nations conducted its various operations. After encountering life-threatening situations they would have what you described. It was called "emergency sex". The book was called...

I have some excellent - and unexpected - sources of information about sex through a mate who works in the sex industry here in New Zealand and my experience of working for the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (now the Burnett Foundation) in the 1990s taught me more about sex, sexually transmitted...

I wrote this thread because of a very unusual problem which has been the main reason why my work in progress has grind to a halt (aside from a technological issue a few weeks back). How do I write about sex, intimacy or relationships if I have never experienced intimacy with anyone, had a...

The planning is more absolute than the execution because things do change as the story progresses. It's just the way my thought processes work. Magic is gifted by the gods through something similar to a lightning bolt from the heavens. No one has worked out exactly how those gifted with...

Here's how I came up with the diversity in my story: Move setting to the tropics, as in the equivalent of southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Looks up ethnic groups in the tropics. Most people in tropical areas aren't white. Change skin colour of characters. Tropical rain is hot...

Agreed. [Waves flag of truce.]