"They shared a shot glass and fashion tips for thirty years, such was the depth of their bond."
Isn't it possible that different worlds would be at different levels of technology, or with different mixtures and emergent systems of science and...
I'm always curious about how the odd setting is going to be presented to the reader. To what degree is the presentation going to be through the...
I love it. Good choices.
Caricature: noun noun: caricature; plural noun: caricatures a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking...
Sanderson has actually spoken about this on his podcast a few time. I think, essentially, he suggested it as a trick to get the writer out of his...
Any consequential event will have stories told about it. Some of these stories might be spot-on, but others may be tall tales, entirely wrong, or...
Lots of World of Warcraft these days. I'd quit for about 8 or 9 years, but returned earlier this year. Lots of time put into it. I've been making...
Pulling back from your writing, letting it sit in a drawer or on the computer for a couple months or more, lets you come back to it with fresh...
For you, what gives to the fantasy genre its vibe? The fact that my answer works so well, for me, with the answers already given in this thread...
Yeah, my experience of kings in fantasy stories is more general than all of a single, specific variety. More or less power, more hands-on with the...
Curious to hear from others.... I did a quick Google search, and learned about blood meal, a kind of fertilizer that is essentially the dried...
It really depends on what your goals for the game are. Are you styling it after other games? World of Warcraft uses Blood Elves and Night Elves....
Well, so I began a loooooo...oooooooong comment exploring an A to Zed continuum of info dissemination, hoping to come to some conclusion about...
For me, the question is how any single, given piece of art is absolutely required to be in the public domain for this public good. People can...
I have little of value to add.... Which is kinda the point, heh. How can a work of fiction ever be a "public good?" Seriously. Copyright laws...
Well it's a rabbit hole I know, but what does it mean to make characters "as real as possible" ? Another turn to the screw: How well do I know...
Ah, I'm still not getting the great example of infodump. Yours is a very cool start to a potentially cool story. But for it to be infodump,...
What is interesting to me, and may be slightly off topic, is the way characters are characters—and not people. There's almost always some form of...
I think I agree, but not entirely. My life is a history lesson in beating heads against a wall. My own head at least. Whether my boredom or the...
