Recent content by unholyGhostwriter

This is exactly it! I haven't properly finished a story in ages, so I've become so hyper-critical of anything I write that I just end up stopping a writing session altogether. It's true, a lot of new writers are bad at seeing past what *they* think is bad about their work, and it ends up...

I'm finally getting out of what's probably the worst writer's block I've ever had: haven't written more than two paragraphs at a time for the past ten months, and most of them end up getting deleted anyway. Writing again has been great, but I've also had to deal with a problem I've been avoiding...

Oh, yeah, this is true. Dialogue could be defined as 'good' when the reader doesn't really register it as separate from the story, because that means it flows so well that their mind doesn't bother to focus on it as a device. If you can pick dialogue out from non-dialogue, then that probably...

I come from a family of book-lovers and artists, so I've pretty much been reading my entire life, and I've been writing for almost just as long. I've had a lot of people tell me that how I write characters interacting is really good, and not to toot my own horn here but I'm pretty proud of some...

Ohh, thanks for this. You'd be surprised how many simple options my brain completely overlooks. I appreciate the tip, and DIRE is a super cool acronym :D

Hmm. This is kind of a hard question to answer. Mainly because whether or not a twist is needed in a story REALLY varies. I think a twist in a story depends on a lot of factors concerning both what the writer is going for in the story, and the story itself. Every genre of prose has the...

Oh, I quite like IIIE. It does roll right off of the tongue. And 'examinators' is kind of the right descriptor for the organization, since they investigate about whatever Lovecraftian beings they manage to capture. Thanks for the ideas!

Thanks! Her name's Rue. The story she's the protagonist of is on hold because I've hit a solid wall inspiration-wise. Maybe I'll find that inspiration on here, who knows?

Whoa, a misleading name is actually really smart. No one's going to want to investigate a group of people that supposedly work at a cheese farm. Elusive. I like it.

Ah yes, a goal I've been wanting to achieve for a while now. I can now sleep peacefully--haha no. Thanks for having me here!

Thanks, Avery! And yeah, it's art I made of one of my innumerable fantasy characters, haha.

Well, dang. The fact that I didn't think about rearranging the letters says a lot about me, heh. And all of your suggestions are really good! I shall add them to the little pool of options I have gathered so far. I appreciate the help.

Greetings and salutations, ladies, gentlemen and variations thereupon. I'm a newborn adult who might have been an owl in their past life, as I have not slept normally for seven of the eighteen years I have been alive. While graciously shortening my lifespan with every unholy hour I spend awake...

Hiya! New here, and this is me impulsively shooting out a thread ten minutes after making a profile. Can't say I'm proud of it. I'm currently working on a story where one of the main supporting forces is a covert semi-magical, semi-scientific organization. It essentially operates like the Men...