Recent content by Muan142

Your advice it seems to me is, don’t publish it. My question was, how do we soften the topic to the reader. This does not seem relevant to the topic. I was not asking for publishing advice, but writing advice. Perhaps the two are inseparable in your mind but logically I think you will find they...

I’m not here to answer your questions though I already did if you’d read above. I’m asking for advice on how to soften the issue

I’m completely sure most people will go ew. I don’t know what you mean by self gratification but what I’m asking is is there some way to lessen the blow and make it easier for people. Not everyone needs to like it but I don’t want to dissuade readers of it’s not necessary. All the same for the...

I had something like that in there originally but I decided it was too contrived and nobody would buy it. It could work for certain aspects of the story but it makes our hero look like a cultural relativist and so kind of muddies the moral waters. Anyway the original version was that the hero...

I think you’re kind of jumping the gun here, but you’re asking good questions. For a long time I’ve been fascinated by this pair of characters I invented, a young man who is a paragon of virtue and wisdom but who happens to fall in love with his artistic trickster of a sister. Sort of a play on...

I’ve got a story I’m working on where a brother-sister romance features prominently. It’s not presently my intention to actually consummate it, but a lot of the scenes derive tension by the unspoken subtexts. Or rather I could say it’s like figure skating on top of a really thin sheet of ice...

Honestly, discussions of the heroes journey sort of start with an understanding of Platonism. Read The Republic cover to cover. Then the Phaedro. Listen to lectures on Plotinus. Read Aristotle’s Ethics, Politics, and Poetry. Then Augustine. Probably after that Nietzsche and Freud. Then Jung...

Andressa’s old servant m, Amos, returns with magic he learned at university and helps her overthrow her brother. This follows just after he massacres her brother, his wife and children and a room full of thirty armed men right in front of her. Her niece he for some reason mind-wiped instead of...