Recent content by Prince of Spires

Depends on too many factors to actually answer. The only true answer is that a story should be as long as it needs to be to tell the story you want to tell. If you have a story that only needs 25.000 words to tell, then don't turn it into a 75.000 word book just to meet a word count and vise...

It happens. Somehow, my word count per chapter always ends up roughly around 2500 words (though it's been sliding upwards with each progressive novel somehow...). It's apparently the size of chapters my brain comes up with. The positive thing is that it lets me roughly estimate how long a novel...

The discussion on four letter words has me wondering if there are other numbers which have the exact number of letters as the number they're spelling out. Yes, my brain is weird.

Welcome! If you're looking for writing groups, look around online. You're of course welcome here. But you can also find people on Youtube or Twitch livestreaming while they write and people can just join in and have a chat while writing. Lots of options online :)

If with genre you mean the more finely detailed sub-genres like a heist story or even a sword and sorcery story, and not the high level genres like fantasy or romance, then I think that 70-80% of one thing and maybe 10-20% some other thing describes almost all novels out there. A novel needs...

That's the case with all tools though. You generally don't need them, but they can make your life easier and faster. You can write a novel using a quill and ink jar on paper you crafted yourself. You don't need a computer with a word processor to do so. However, it makes your writing a lot...

To me it feels like you're asking two separate and very different questions. The first is where do you get inspiration, and the second is how do you manage to turn that inspiration into a story. They're very different things, and the best way to approach them is to treat them as very different...

I just do it to annoy my kids. I'll take whatever hip new lingo is bouncing around and use it in the most incorrect way possible. It's fun... 6-7 all the way.

There is six Monkey Island games now? :O I stopped counting at 3. I'm really out of touch... I should get them. I finished the first, and played the second. And they're great games. Had lots of fun with them.

It is: If you increase the diameter (or circumference) by X2, then the surface area increases by 4X, and the volume (and thus mass) increases by 8X (give or take...). Of course, there's some wiggle room, since you can play with the density of the rock or the material the planet is made out of...

Welcome! 1. Depends a little on what you mean with 2.2X bigger. Generally, it's thought that having a radius of about 2X earth is about the biggest rocky planets can get, so 2.2 times the earth radius is about the upper limit of what you'd find. If you mean in terms of mass, then that limit...

The one variation I've come across is Canadian flags. They're still tourists. However, in my experience, someone wearing a Canadian flag (or have one stuck on a backpack or similar) has a higher than 50/50 chance of being an American.

Just as a completely off topic remark, but Business as Usual in the Ash Heap sounds like a kick-ass book title for a Sci-Fi novel. Someone should write it. I'd read it just for the title alone :)

Pretty much this I think. If you're unsure, then you can always check with a mod before posting. And you can always add a content warning at the top of the post (though this isn't a way to get around the forum rules of course, just to let readers know what they get into).

I think it was Brandon Sanderson who defined becoming an adult as "learning how to make yourself do those things that you want to have done". I like it.