Recent content by RoccO

I was waiting for Delroy to discover he was a vampire. The food adds flavour to the work, though I did not think you could use so many descriptives, it could be burnt out. If you were interested, you could do a travel book, biography type deal, dealing with the cooks journey, till he discovers...

A motorcycle riding heroine is great. I say that vampires grow old and decay, nobly rotting in some elderitch gentlemen club, having something to do with climate change. A night under the moon will do more for the lycan than you might think, and a swim in the swamp is sure to do more for the...

It is sounding like a good place to have a school of vampires. Housing, in a boarding school for different shapeshifters, sounds like a really neat idea, where the school is reserved for vampires, and perhaps the hundred years of recovery time for the turning. There are a lot of theories for...

I remember the renaissance years. Shows like Animaniacs. They were a really good at a set of shows - they aired on Nickelodeon before Cartoon Network was a thing. I very much miss the days of satellite TV, it was only for grandparents and weekends. The shows of yesterday year were unaffected by...

That is seen throughout a story structure, so I do not see why it should not inhabit other schools of thought as well. There are basically three units to a family, three sections to a dwelling. Sure, you can add other things, but the main structure remains intact. It might be difficult for some...

I had a story like that. It dealt with fantasy creatures and magic, but I could not find a plot besides an evil king from another land. It was not spectacular or dark, it was a usual furry adventure with sword fighting, street urchins, hooded strangers. I got the idea from the usual books, I was...

It is about what you can get on the page. Not what you store in your mind.

Good writing is when you can think for yourself, therefore everything is good. There are three types of writing: one about romance, one about battle, and one about both.

I have to read books to better know characters better. How it works, how it is different. I sit sometimes and watch people, I know it is creepy. There are patterns you can discern, but there is a lot I do not know about people. I call it as I see it. A lot can change in one situation to another...

I find it different how there are a series of actions that do not shock and awe like they do in RL. There is suspense in a movie or book. Sometimes even tears. Then you have to return to the black void and light at the end of the tunnel.

Skins episodes are titled that way, and sometimes they are just titled, “everyone,” but only once every season. You also have books titled by the MC, and that is actually quite common amongst the classics. The problem you may face is having a POV chapter titled by the previous name, or another...

I had a story idea about the second coming of Franz Ferdinand, Francis Bacon, and a time travelling black hand.

In my universe there are archetypes that are more so than others, I think it draws back to an ancient time, that may not have even existed but is prevalent in my mind. For instance there are books I have read with different classes of people who are identified as having more of the gene than...

A good way to increase tension is to foreshadow the main villain. It happens a lot in aeroplane fiction, stuff that you just throw away because it is generic. It is done in Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden and Dan Brown’s books. It brings up a pervading sense of evil and strips the meat from the...

Japan has stopped making anime like they used to, I think it is time to say goodbye. The latest Ghibli movie was hard to follow, because the veil has been lifted. I sense the light dimming. The light of the balance that sustains the world. They have been making live action pieces most recently...