Recent content by Zadocfish

Any chance I might be able to in this? I've been chipping away at my first novel for like a year now, but I can never stay motivated. I do want to be a professional, someday, but I could help in a circle!

Nomadica definitely has a point. Oil, that is, a resource for light and heat and making food, is also valuable enough to be useful for currency. Anything that many people will often or always need will make a good currency.

I'm not asking for plugs or anything, but I can only seem to get motivated to write when there's some kind of challenge involved. Anyone know any good sites with regular/a lot of writing or short story challenges? Preferably fantasy/sci-fi, of course, but any will do.

Hm... Unfortunately, the focal character is roughly 8 inches tall. There aren't many non-monster threats he could be of any believable help with. The monster is less of a problem than the emotional parts, though. I don't mind too much bringing the Allosmore'us to life, it's the characters...

I think I'm at an impasse on my little novel, and I think it's a reason more seasoned writers would be familiar with. Put simply, the next scene is one I really, really don't want to write. To explain in more detail, my main characters have just been thrown into a ravine. My plan for what...

Remember, they don't exist in real life. You can do whatever you want with them. Make them filled with vanilla frosting if you want, it doesn't really matter since there's no established non-theoretical rules or laws on them.

Hm... what if the prologue is done in the style of a separate, seemingly-unrelated short story, to introduce or set up aspects of the setting?

I hate the lack of edit option... the links up there are wrong, so I'll post the actual ones. RPG Skeleton - Google Docs Dream World Character Sheet - Google Docs

Messed up the link for the character sheet... this is the right one. Dream World Character Sheet - Google Docs

Two things about the freaking insufferable torrents of "it's a ripoff/rehash/whatever of New Hope" from my perspective: 1: If there was one thing the prequels did that hurt the franchise the most, it was the massive departure from the feel and setting of the original movies. I suspect that...

Also, I thought the firing of the Starkiller was so much better than the firing of the original Death Star. Why? Because you SEE the people on the ground looking confusedly at the beams coming at them. That adds an incredible amount of weight to the proceedings; with Alderaan, you only were...

What I liked about Kylo's lightsaber is that he used the cross-guard in EXACTLY the way that a laser cross-guard should be used; to attack the enemy even when he's been parried. I can never quite understand people who say that Rey shouldn't have been able to beat him, though. He had an energy...

I forget which one, for I listened to them a long time ago, but either The Land that Time Forgot or The People that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs.. Whichever one introduced the "evolution pools." Referring to "less evolved" human features as "Negroid" and portraying beautiful white...

I TRY to make my most important thing God, but I'm not sure how well I'm doing with that.

Man, I've barely written a word since Nano... It's hard to work up enthusiasm when there's no kudos on the line...