Recent content by StepIntoTheRoad

I feel your pain of losing a day of writing to something like this. I mentored high school kids in college, but it was for engineering not writing. It was also on my terms, not the school's, which was nice. From what you wrote it sounds like you aren't a huge fan of the structure they're...

Gurkhal's statement is what I thought when I read the title of the thread. Sure you can make them different but if you're going to do that jump in with two feet and make something with no baggage. This concept of calling them something else was mentioned before by Insolent Lad: More recently...

I think Hayao Miyazaki is very good at using outside characters to explain new and fascinating worlds. Within the first 5 minutes of In Princess Mononoke, the main character's tribe banishes him. He then goes on his adventure, and the movie NEVER goes back to explain what life was like in his...

:oops: You are right Thoras. On a day to day basis, I try to make my habits easy to achieve. Like I consider an exercise 10 pushups a day. Not a full 60 min gym excursion. And writing every day is equivalent to sitting in front of a screen for an hour a day without looking at a distracting...

I love setting the bar low for myself. I made one goal which was to work 25 hrs a week on personal projects minimum. Obviously, I'm not going to do this 52 weeks a year because I do want to take vacations. So I gave myself four weeks off in the year where I don't have to hit the target. It's...

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! You are right Russ, everything I've read on here has been above and beyond expected. I will quit my searching :coffee:

The most terifying part of writing anything to me is putting something onto a blank page. So to fix that I put something on there. In fact I put anything on there. That fixes my first problem. Usually I'll start with the highest piece of the story, maybe tell it in the most broad terms and leave...

According to a Mythology Wiki on Centaur Variants the term for a deer variant is Cervitaurs (Pretty close to Eidson's suggestion). If you search for Cervitaur, you'll find more info on them. I don't know if Cervitaurs is "cool" enough for you, but it seems to be the technically correct term...

As I look through this thread, I feel like the difference between a pointless sex scene and a genuine sex scene is whether or not it adds something to the story. A useful sex scene conveys some information about our characters. Readers can tell when the scene is in there because 'sex sells' and...

:LOL: My party and I have now changed our DM's name from "God" to "Mom" in our chat. So I'm sure he's thankful for your picture. I thought it was funny.

The ear-buds even when alone is a big one for me. Instead of music, I have an hour-long thunderstorm track that I play whenever I'm trying to focus. It's a fabulous Pavlovian technique - if I hear rain I do work. My favorite way to measure progress is a habit tracker. I have a streak on the...

Hey everyone, I'm excited to be here. I've been looking for a decent forum for fiction writers online for a while now. My name is Nicholas, and I'm an avid reader and writer. I've been making stuff up my entire life, and I finally got around to writing some of the less abstract things down over...