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  • pmmg
    pmmg replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.
    I am going to say, I am not sure I accept that the dichotomy is truly theme vs being preachy. That does not feel like a vs thing to me...
  • Fyri
    Fyri posted the thread Plot Bunnies in Chit Chat.
    I can't remember where I first heard the term, but I think it was on this site. Plot bunnies, from what I remember, are like little...
  • Esraa_Saeed
    Esraa_Saeed replied to the thread Creation of Arda.
    continuation Thus, land was born- not as a blessing, but as a division. Serima was not slain. She was wounded and bound, entombed in...
  • skip.knox
    It wasn't just the big screen. It was an experience. We have big screens now, but somehow the experience isn't the same. So, while there...
  • SamazonE
    SamazonE posted the thread This peach in World Building.
    I am writing a speech, and I want to run something by you. In this land we are beseeched by a drug that is widespread and harvested by...
  • M
    I'll just do it. The thing that's causing me to delay isn't any of the technical aspects of writing, as much as I have chosen such a big...
  • skip.knox
    skip.knox replied to the thread Too Many files!.
    Lots of good suggestions here. I shall be helpful by trying to complicate things. <g> One, the line between what is major and what is a...
  • skip.knox
    >. I'll take what I think is useful and discard whatever seems unhelpful, even if it's otherwise. Both halves of that are worth...
  • Queshire
    Queshire replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.
    Is that a bad thing? 0_o EDIT: Haven't actually had a chance to watch the video at the time of typing this. Waiting to use it as...
  • JBCrowson
    JBCrowson replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.
    Navel gazing your writing in a spongy place - are you writing in the bath again? FWIW (the square root of zero) I think post modern...
  • JBCrowson
    My take is that they (beat sheets) are neither inherently good or bad, but like all tools developed to help writers, they do not suit...
  • Fyri
    Fyri updated their status.
    There's no way the last time I made a status update was 2 years ago when I was on draft 8. How have I made 4 new drafts since then??
  • Incanus
    For me, learning and applying structure helped quite a lot. I don’t think I could have completed my rough draft (what I call a...
  • Esraa_Saeed
    Esraa_Saeed replied to the thread Creation of Arda.
    Ki is not human, but will itself cannot remain idle. Creation was not mercy — it was inevitability...
  • Esraa_Saeed
    Esraa_Saeed replied to the thread Creation of Arda.
    continuation: She did not hunt to survive. She devoured to erase. Serima mimicked the forms of other creatures, luring them into...
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