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skip.knox replied to the thread Color Me Annoyed.Sounds like graphics card, which is not great news, There was a cartoon, many and many a year ago, that has ever held true. When... -
skip.knox replied to the thread Hello from newest of the newbies.We welcome reality, fantasy, alternate reality, and alternate fantasy. And even alternate historical fantasy!
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skip.knox replied to the thread Overthinking Worldbuilding?.It can be separate, but I would call it a hobby only if the person involved never actually wrote stories. Worldbuilding for a game, or...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Tired of using the same word.In this as with pretty much all other "what's another word for..." questions, I suggest temporarily stop looking. Instead, look at the...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.I have a couple of Chosen One tropes that has never even made it to sketch stage. One is, Wrong Guy stumbles into a place or finds a...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Color Me Annoyed.Another vote for cables. Back in the CRT days I encountered this when people would shove those huge monitors as far back on their...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Victorian England.Which sort of life do you mean? Think how you might answer if a person asked you what life in America in the 2020s was like. Which part...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Four-letter words in literature....Depends on the genre (even just within fantasy), the author, and the reader. If the language is used in an erotic scene, the author...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?.I ought to have been more clear. Everything that is in the *finished* story should be there on purpose. Drafts are exempted.
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skip.knox replied to the thread Workflow to Find Non-AI Art.I used to be able to add exclusion strings: -getty for example. Because Getty and other entities have tied up billions upon billions...
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skip.knox reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like? with
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I would say you have this wrong. First person is a story written in the "I" form. I did this, I did that. You are stuck in the head of... -
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Two big examples are Lord of the Rings and Dune. They are both omniscient, though in very different styles. The Hitchhicker's Guide to...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Most recent books you bought..Two more books by Patrick Leigh Fermor, both about Greece. One, Roumeli is about northern Greece while Mani is down in the Peloponnese...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?.I find it more useful for myself not to call it head hopping. The phrase is pejorative from the start. It's switching the point of view...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How to 'kill' the he said/she said habit?.>use it less like others here have suggested. You can look elsewhere and find not merely suggestions but outright recommendations to use...