Recent content by ThinkerX

I remember you describing and me commenting on your WIP a year or two ago. I suggested the bad buy might prefer to capture, rather than kill the heroine.

This sounds familiar...

I considered the classic permanent day/permanent night with the twilight ribbon between the two - but then I realized that Venus in our Solar system is tidally locked, yet still rotates, albeit very slowly. So, there is a real-world example. It is worth pointing out that the planet's orbit is...

I created a world something like this for Lovecraftian short stories. The 'Eldritch World' - I need to come up with a proper name - is tidally locked to its primary, yet still rotates on its axis, which has a seventy-degree tilt. North of +30, the sun never sets, and the terrain includes...

Well... if you are feeling brave and have a few minutes... highlight to read. Warning: Lots of naked people engaged in naked people activities. https://mythicscribes.com/community/threads/leave-warning-adult-content.9966/

It happened a few times with me. Strangely, most of those times were during the winter. One rather attractive gal answered the door in a towel, which came most of the way undone...but she caught it in time. Then there are the adventures of my lovely young daughter. Her first job was at a...

They talked a lot and got pregnant several times during my time. I did see repeated public displays of affection - the one (short) gal climbing her (tall) BF sticks in mind, as does the commentary that ensued when I delivered a pizza to a hotel room wearing little more than racy underwear and...

I spent a decade delivering pizza for a shop where several of the female staff were promiscuous - to put it mildly. Among other things, they thought business would skyrocket if the waitstaff 'went topless.' They continually drifted from one affair to another, with corresponding emotional...

I try to build little quirks into my characters from the outset to make them distinctive. I have several minor characters with enough quirks piled onto them that seem alive. Some examples from the current WIP - Simon Fury, aka 'Simple Simon.' A natural (bastard) son of Sir Richard Fury...

There are different origin/creation stories for my worlds, but the core truth is Lovecraftian - a mad god created the universe by accident and is quite capable of destroying it on a whim.

There have been different forms of apocalypses in my worlds. A Lovecraftian Apocalypse ended the civilizations of the alien races that terraformed the main planet and brought in other races as servitors and experimental subjects. The aliens are almost extinct, but many of their artifacts...

In my worlds, the divine and infernal come in different flavors. Lovecraft gets part of the blame for that situation. The cosmos is Lovecraftian, dotted with utterly alien beings of immense power regarded as gods in many worlds, often identified with local deities. They are regarded as...

'The humiliation from his first attempt to complete the move still lingered in his mind. But that was months ago. He'd actually succeeded the fourth time - but failed eight more times in a row. Two days ago, he'd almost pulled it off. But today would be different. Today, he'd succeed.'

Have something happen relevant to the plot - news of trouble in a place the MC visits later in the story, or a despicable act by the villain.

I think a lot about the stories and the worlds they are set in, turning ideas over and twisting them around. The more interesting ones get notes.