One of the rules I made for myself says: "Show the society as it could be, not point fingers at what you think is wrong."
If you followed the Iron Pen challenges and my entries into it, you may already have read about the city of Bazaarat. The first professionally...
I partly agree with Addison. I think it's simpler though: Publishing companies are, by their very nature as a large entity, rather cautious when...
Tails are the only thing about toys that count. Especially if they are tall tails. I tell a tall tail from time to time myself. As such, I totally...
belittle - what else could it be?
I think Blue Lotus' answer hints at why we might not see too many stories take that path... it crosses over into no-no-land for too many modern...
He'd crossed the line, and now it was dead, as was the night, and he'd soon be too. He dangled the phone from its cut extension cord, no more...
"Everything I need to know, I can learn on Facebook." Hehehe
Yeah, I second whatSeverinR says. Either the eye is kaputt, then there are no tear ducks intact. Or the eye is only 'blinded' in the sense that...
Outtake from the current storyline: Reemu: "And we could raise goats." Awynn: "What's a goat?" Reemu: "You don't know what a goat is?!" Awynn:...
HEY! PHIL! Share the cookies? Happy B-Day, yeah? Here's to many more where that one came from. (The Day. But we can talk cookies too, if you like....
There's a song the SCA used to sing in these instances: (to the tune of Walzing Mathilda) "Freaking the Mundanes, Freaking the Mundanes, who'll...
if ever I write a book on writing, I will want to ask to quote you. Very nicely said! "It is your bully, in my story." Yes.
The difference to a movie being that in film you have several channels to draw a picture (here mainly visual)... while in story you only have the...
Right, clothing can be important for the setting. And I agree that more detail might be good early on. Later in the story - setting and characters...
The key being "key elements of clothing."
"The same symbol mean 4 different things." Ok, I can live with that. I gues the only thing that counts with this "Elven Logic" is that it is...
Tell me what the clothing says about the character... not so much the details of dress. If you describe the clothing in detail, chances are, I...
I like the idea, lots. A few things though: the circles all have their role in each category of 'belief,' but the correlation between those...
I think one of the reasons why physical reactions to emotions 'vary' is not because the reaction to the base emotions varies... but because we...
