Recent content by DireBadger

There's a fine line between breaking tropes and mocking tropes.

If you can find or make good art? as many book covers as you can...

For some reason, in my experience, intentionally 'gay themed clubs' and good taste go together like peanut butter and sidewalk chalk. In fact, most 'sexuality themed clubs' are in hilariously bad taste. "Eyes wide shut" was a cute movie, but it doesn't really work that way.

To me, the Characters are basically my roleplaying friends... only they are tied up, with duct tape around their mouths, and I get to DECIDE what their characters say and do! muahahaha! That will teach you to one-shot the scary lich with a lucky die roll!

Diet Coke. I need the caffeine, but I don't want my feet falling off.

My basic command of English spelling and grammar. I also know what a comma is generally use'd for :)

You seem to have a decent command of the English language and basic spelling and grammar. For here? That's high praise indeed :)

I am confident that some day you will overcome the desperate need to use 'capslock'. Truth: explain the worst part of a novel you are writing (or reading if you are a reader instead) Dare: find the most disgusting, exploiting, and ridiculous novel you have seen on kindle ulimited, or that you...

Well, it would still fit the archetype... heavenly tribulations aren't always lightning, cultivation authors just use that as a shortcut. There are also mental tribulations (fight yourself!) heavenly beasts, morale, potential deviations, alchemical challenges, and sometimes just some kinda...

good point. I have nonstandard sexuality characters in my books, but since I am not writing sex books, it really doesn't MATTER. people are people, and generally, what they do inthe bedroom only matters for certain genres.

This is almost always true when it comes to speaking, except when specifically reacting or interrupting. Reactions and interruptions, however, are something you definitely have to learn by reading. Actions, however, are often a bit more complicated. Good writers are ALWAYS frequent readers.

Just don't surprise the reader, since it IS a stress factor, politics aside. Most non-standard sexuality will be a stress factor unless you specifically mark the story as containing that. Of course, lots of readers specifically look for non-vanilla sexuality in their books, so it might be as...

I wrote my first full chapter for a new story since my stroke 6 moths ago... and realized I still could!

I don't understand resets. Especially around things like sexuality. Why not just... I don't know....write a new story?

Well, it helps that both my wife and I are in our fifties and have been playing roleplaying games together since 'basic' D&D was a thing. If you have someone you can 'idiot check' scenes with, that is absolutely an enormous boon to your writing veracity, especially sex scenes and conversations...