Not being an expert, I have zero idea how accurate this is, but it sure is comprehensive. It's got everything you could possibly want to know...
To try to salvage this, what if the society's primary threat comes from monsters that are heavily armored/scaled? If you want to push swords as a...
There might be multiple mindsets involved here. Take the thread in World Building about a society with no bows and arrows. I didn't contribute...
Counterpoint: So Game of Thrones won the Emmys | Feminist Fiction
If you don't want to write a straightforward story of someone going from "not grown up" to "grown up," can you reject or subvert the concept? I'm...
@Penpilot: I'm reminded of Valkyria Chronicles. The Darcsen are very, very obvious stand-ins for Jews during the Holocaust, and the writers do...
Or the Wiccan Rede--"An it harm none, do what ye will." But as an economics major, I'd dispute its possibility within a large group of people....
I'm intrigued. Either character could be painted with various degrees of sympathy for the mistakes, flaws, and/or bad circumstances that land them...
This thread was inspired by an interesting article, which I'll quote in part: Agent Carter presents us with many elements of the post-war New...
Three years ago, I linked a video about the three-act structure, and why so many video games use amnesia as an excuse to cut out act one and just...
If you can find it, Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder might be a good book to pick up. It's a collection of science fiction stories Silverberg...
If it's a one-off encounter, the MC may not have the opportunity to see more than one side of the character. Consider a waiter at a fancy...
I'd say the snob is someone who judges by only one metric and can't understand others. For instance, if someone is writing in a language that...
A bit OT, but this gets right to the heart of the problem I've always faced when trying to write characters who believe things I think are false....
Way late for this, but the most positive portrayals of pseudo-Christianity I've seen in non-Christian fantasy have generally been fast and loose....
Inspired by The Serpent and the Rose, but relevant to a lot of different fantasy stories. If a story is generally "fantasy" and is otherwise...
The standard argument against societal models is that they lead to biased value judgments. For instance, if you claim that polytheistic cultures...
It's a bit fantastical, but my favorite use of disease is in a video game called Trauma Team. It's a bacterium originally found in the stomach of...
If you ever want to see exactly how bad this can get, read Chronicles of Blood and Stone, and then despair over the life choices that have led you...
Just as long as they're not the "bad guys." It always bugs me when the only characters who're okay with homosexuality and/or crossdressing are the...
