Recent content by AnEmberOfSundown

Wait, are they a butt stabber who is fluffy, or a stabber of fluffy butts?

When it comes to unsolicited thoughts on something you want to write about, I like to think back on the immortal words of The Dude, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing:

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." Cap it off with "Anyway...goodbye,"

"He is so stupid it would take him an hour to figure out who shit in his pants. Then he'd get it wrong."

"I don’t think I’ve laughed this much during a serious and impactful narrative maybe ever." Felt good because it meant I'd struck the balance I was trying for.

It's the appropriate way to interrupt a clause. Most of the time when people overuse commas, they should be using an em dash. Hyphens can be used for a stutter, but an em dash is the correct way to show someone interrupting a thought or someone else's speech. En dashes are only for things...

This is definitely a real, live humans person I can tell having also been a real humans person for many years. I bet they do all the things that humans do like breathe air and buy groceries like I, another humans person, does.

Never mind, I retract my response. Carry on.

A well-timed fart joke can let the wind (no pun intended) out of even the most pretentious, high-minded monologue. 💨 Now who let that low-flying duck in here?

My advice? Humor should be character-driven. That is, your characters should be funny in their own way without tipping your hand as "the funny author". Having a variety of humor helps. Each character should have their own register. The dry wit, the foul-mouth sarcastic one, the goofy...

I may have misspoke. While I can understand WHY these kinds of stories get written, I don't like them either. It feels forced and frustrating almost every time. I'm agreeing with you, just trying to dissect why they get written the way they are.

I guess I'll answer in two parts- 1: Maybe I misunderstood the point you were originally trying to make but when you mentioned threats against the community, I took that to mean literally. As in "stop fighting or I'll harm the people in your community". That's a very different scenario than...

It’s not something I’d noticed before but I don’t think you’re wrong. If I had to guess, my theory would be that POC superheroes are “saddled” with the additional responsibility of representing their own race/community in addition to whatever their actual story is. That implicit tie doesn’t...

Absolutely not. Unacceptable. I don’t want anybody here to read through my carefully written prose and offer free proofreading feedback that would be AWFUL. I world be compelled to answer each one with genuine gratitude. Gag me.