Recent content by Prince of Spires

In general for main characters I begin with a rough idea of what the character is like, and then I just write them and let them develop their character through their actions. And then when editing, I go through the whole thing and make their traits more specific and stand out more. For side...

To me it sounds more like you need to have a sit down with your parents and discuss things about your relationship and how you're living together than an actual computer or security issue. I'm not qualified to give you relationship or mental health advice, but that's the direction I'd look for...

I just go with what I need at a certain location. In a big enough place, you'd find pretty much anything you need in terms of shops. So if I need it, it's there. There are a few caveats of course. First is the general era in which you're writing. A roman town would have different shops from a...

First question is of course, how are you sure they are using your computer? Then, if you're absolutely certain, just change your password to biometrics or something they can't guess and you should be good unless you have very tech savy parents. Anything you pick as a password should be fine...

I hadn't heard of it yet (though that could just have been teenage me not paying attention during French class), but I'm going to find myself a copy now :)

I think you're overthinking this. Though that might just be a culture thing. Since I'm not from the US, I only vaguely know there was a school shooting at Columbine, but that's where it ends for me. So it might be that. But if you're telling a story about a princess who's fighting in a fantasy...

Still sounds better than Vogon poetry... They sound like fun elves. And it makes a lot of sense that someone who lives forever unless killed has a very different approach to death and dying than a human would. After all, what is 1 day of shame if you can spend the next 100 years to make up for...

It's all about context though. I'm sure you could write a steamy scene with two biologists flirting with each other where proboscis becomes a sexy word (for them). Start with a third (non-biologist) person in the room, and they use proboscis and similar as code language to flirt without the...

Sounds like on average, your monitors are just fine... Have you tried turning your head sideways and quinting in just the right way to combine both images? It might just work.

I'm working through a novel, that's already challenging enough. I don't need more writing work... Having said that, I can see it being good practice to write shorter pieces that try to achieve a specific thing. I probably should do more of them. I just don't have the cognitive room or...

Been thinking about chosen ones some more over the weekend, and I concluded that it very much depends on how their executed. My main realization was that in Lord of the Rings, both Frodo and Aragorn are Chosen Ones. Gandalf literally tells Frodo that he's meant to have the ring, and Aragorn is...

Now that I think about it, the best Chosen One story that does this is The Life of Brian.

I vote for simply throwing this monitor out the window and getting a new one. Don't know how old it is of course, but sometimes they just kill themselves. That, or accept life and go back to the 80's monochrome green on black monitor look...

By searching for synonyms you're looking in the wrong place. Firstly, because in the end few synonyms are actually true synonyms. Rather, they mean roughly the same thing. However, there are clear differences between magic, sorcery, and witchcraft (for instance), which means you just can't...

More accepts the call because you want to go on an adventure, but after three chapter you find out this whole save the world thing is too much work and you just quit. Or what if the call was put out by the actual bad guys. After all, why can only the powers of good (or whatever) have a chosen...