They gained respect, but it was contextualized in terms of their humility; the story is self-aware of the irony of the humble hobbits being...
I have this repeated problem where I get started with my writing for the night, intending to go to bed around midnight, but then I get In The Zone...
I’m very fond of villains that make you feel strong emotions. When a villain inspires you to passionately hate them, be angry at them, or even...
We’ee going dangerously close to the truth that genre is a construct that starts to become really unhelpful if you look at it too closely.
This has been said in the thread in some ways but a lot of tropes we think of as “Tolkien derivative” are not actually. They’re actually...
Even if the book contains something I find repugnant, I try not to let my personal feelings influence my ratings unless I feel like it was really...
Im seeing a theme here of genre conventions meaning certain things should be expected (e.g. graphic violence in a military focused fantasy) and I...
Teletubbies are pretty horrifying though.
It really may just be her teaching style that’s not very engaging, or it might be just me being already familiar with a lot of the terms she...
I don’t know exactly. There’s been little opportunity for complex discussion.
You’re right in that it’s 100% not possible to warn for every possible trigger ever because they are literally infinite. Things not directly...
The thing people usually miss about exposure therapy is that it’s done under the supervision of a professional. It’s necessary to feel safe and...
It's not necessarily so people can avoid the book. some people just want to know ahead of time that a book will contain X thing, instead of being...
If i haven't been active on MS in a while, this is definitely why. For a while I was going a little bit bonkers trying to stay hydrated and get...
It's now exactly one month since I moved into my college dorm. I feel slightly more sane than I did initially. It took me a while to figure out...
Never, as long as it's still concretely grounded in character and plot. If you're so fantastical that human feelings and choices no longer make...
"Trigger warnings" are a difficult concept in part because they assume that a limited pool of topics are "triggers," when actually ANYTHING can be...
It would be...ideal, I guess, if I could work it into YA, but YA is just so damn specific in what it is/includes now. A lot of books written...
For a long time I have wanted, usually pretty vaguely, to write the sort of thing I would have liked to read when I was a kid. I often read and...
Just make sure they add something to what you're saying. If you write that a character "smiled happily," that's redundant. You need to scrap it....
