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  • ehbowen
    ehbowen replied to the thread Vampires (Customized Lore)?.
    Not in this work, but in a different albeit related story thread I've toyed with the idea of establishing a "Hagworts-adjacent" (TM...
  • ehbowen
    ehbowen replied to the thread Vampires (Customized Lore)?.
    Well, this all plays with my conceit that the two opposing sides "behind the scenes" (likely more than two, although that's what they...
  • J
    jfslayne posted the thread Refugee Gods in World Building.
    In my fantasy universe there is a pantheon of dragons who created the universe rather than gods, but there are gods in my world. These...
  • Adam Scribentis
    When watching Mockingjay Part 2, I was not surprised by what Katniss did when she turned up to the execution; I had seen it coming...
  • Naruzeldamaster
    Same with Ace Attorney, we know the protagonists will get there in the end, but the journey to the destination is wild. About the only...
  • RoccO
    RoccO replied to the thread Vampires (Customized Lore)?.
    A motorcycle riding heroine is great. I say that vampires grow old and decay, nobly rotting in some elderitch gentlemen club, having...
  • A. E. Lowan
    A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Vampires (Customized Lore)?.
    Going to beat up on this section for a bit. Knowing the force in terms of pound per is great. Good thinks. Most of your readers are...
  • A. E. Lowan
    A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Vampires (Customized Lore)?.
    Keep your lore consistent. Yes, it's going to make you go back over and over again to adjust. That keeps you on your t We have...
  • RoccO
    RoccO replied to the thread Vampires (Customized Lore)?.
    It is sounding like a good place to have a school of vampires. Housing, in a boarding school for different shapeshifters, sounds like a...
  • TheCrystallineEntity
    There's the whole 'obsessive counting' thing, which is usually played for laughs in more modern vampire works. Carmilla turns into a...
  • Insolent Lad
    Insolent Lad replied to the thread Does predictable = 'bad' ?.
    There is predictable and predictable. We can all predict Poirot will solve the case but predicting who the culprit will be is not so simple.
  • Naruzeldamaster
    It's true, I've seen who knows how many Rom Coms (including my own) that follow pretty much the same story beats. Anime or Otherwise...
  • Orc Knight
    Orc Knight replied to the thread What do you listen to?.
  • pmmg
    pmmg replied to the thread Does predictable = 'bad' ?.
    Well, are not romances pretty much predictable? And yet...they sell like hotcakes. Somethings you just never get tired of.
  • ehbowen
    For the story series I'm working on now, which I'm wanting to make suitable for YA but not in-your-face condescending kid stuff, I'm...
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