Recent content by San Cidolfus

Hello and welcome to the Scribes, sir. May you find everything you seek here, be that a sense of community, guidance and aid for your work, a sounding board for your thoughts, or just a fine warm place to curl up and forget for a while. If you do go for the latter-most, take a word of caution...

It's good to see that most of the wordsmiths here are in committed, healthy relationships, and that it's an observable normality in the wider literary world. It gives one hope. Not this one, mind you. Emotionally fragmented, sociopathic loners continue to be the vogue minority. Go me. :cool:

Greetings and welcome to the Scribes. In accordance with what you asked, I wish you luck. More than that, I wish you luck, creative virility, editing acumen, an obscene amount of financial success, and the ability to smite your enemies in righteous halos of heavenly fire. Well, perhaps not...

Hello and welcome to the Scribes, Ms. McPhail. Marrying fantasy fiction and a major in philosophy sounds like a good recipe for some colorful, conflicted characters. And by conflicted I mean tortured by their demon-haunted psyches. You're mean to your characters, aren't you? It's okay, you...

Hello and welcome, Penpilot. If you Maple Leaf types are looking to invade, I'll point you towards the Etiquette and Expectations of Marauding Hordes rulebook that we keep behind the bar. It's all well and good if you want to come in wielding swords and fiery death, but we expect a higher...

Greetings to you, Ireth. I'm certain you're a wonderful person and very talented at what you do, but forgive me if I state in advance that I won't be eating anything you cook and proffer.

Hello and welcome, yeggy. You'll find this to be an educating and invigorating forum, full of fine and respectable people. And me.

How-do and welcome, Shangrila. And of course we'll accept you; we're a very open-minded bunch. Unless you have some form of lycanthropy; not the werewolf kind, because that would be fine, but if you were, say, a were-squirrel, that wouldn't be cool. We'd still accept you, but you shouldn't...

Strictly speaking, prologues should only be used if you wish to introduce plot elements that are ultimately important to the narrative but which are not immediately vital to the rising action. If your story doesn't have too many twists and turns or other elements peripheral to the rising...

Just butting in here, but if the Legend of the Five Rings is based on the Book of Five Rings, then it probably doesn't have much to do with the historical interpretation of 'magic' in Japan. The Five Rings is Miyamoto Musashi's teachings on styles of swordsmanship. It's a fighting treatise.

When I was fifteen or so I got my hot little hands on a TSR creation kit for the PC. Anyone remember those early 3D grid-based PC games? They did a few in Dragonlance, some Forgotten Realms adventures, so forth. Anyway, point it, the game designer let you build those yourself. I went to town...

Greetings, young Alex, and welcome to the Scribes. Here you'll find all manner of like-minded deviants, up-and-comers, raw talent, old salts, and all degrees of tastiness in-between. Feel free to dive right into the forums. I don't believe we have any zombies roaming around...although I...

Hello and welcome! And hey, no worries; we're all trying. Let me tell you what a breakthrough it was when I learned that drunkenly mashing the keyboard with your forehead was not constructive for your narrative! The willpower to finish what we start is what makes a writer. Trying is nothing...

Greetings, Reprobate. *pauses* First time I'm not on the receiving end of that appellation... Anyway, welcome to you! I see you've already begun to explore our grand spaces and make yourself known. Onward and deeper, pilgrim.

Hello and welcome, and tread gently. We impose harsh penalties upon those who break rulers, or any other stationary. We're writers here, after all. We value such things.