Recent content by Jemini

Exactly this. That said, this assumes a plotter's mind-set. If the writer is a pantser, then "when the story demands it" would be the better answer. And if you're rehashing the same ideas, then that's a simple matter of you just needing to do better. That can happen for anyone, plotter or...

That mess on the 1st page.

You know what the sad thing is? I can't even tell if this is on purpose.

This thread should be in the debates section.

Well, that actually has the potential to go WORM level. Now you just need to introduce a reason for the humans to fight each other more than they do the apocalypses and slow-roll the advent of the world's gradual destruction a bit. (Dying over decades and centuries as opposed to months and...

Well, I mean, in general it's actually kinda hard to make a good superhero story. You are either at the level of WORM or Madoka (if you count magical girls as super heroes), or you don't gain any traction at all. A tip I might offer would be that if you want to write a superhero story... well...

This! Right here! All the this!

Ok. So, I said earlier this thread that I didn't read fan fics, but that linked time tinker story in this thread got me interested in WORM fan fics. There really is some rather good stuff out there. Lots of alt power stories, but I think my favorite is actually this one here that has Taylor...

Same, although my reason for dropping beginning after the end was different, and I think I got a fair amount farther than you. The whole defense of that mountain fort thing telegraphed the plot to a point it was way too painfully obvious, and it was not helped at all by the fact that killing off...

Good freaking lord dude! You are taking this role way too seriously! Right. I do not think it is smart at all to trust a guy who gets so into role playing they get angry about it and still keep on with the roleplaying none the less. We are trying to have a serious writing advice section here...

This is a ridiculous amount of words, and I will now defeat the entire argument with one line. Everything you just said applies equally well to empirical as it does metric. If you are converting from one form of measurement to another, the form you convert to should be the form used by your...

Funny story. The protagonists in my first 2 stories were named using my own created language. The protagonist in my most recent story I'm getting close to release-ready status with was named something that nobody in their right mind would ever name a child, and that's actually a significant...

Alien worlds, you should create your own measurement units in those circumstances. Why would an alien civilization be using metrics? That's an Earth system. If you're going to convert alien units, convert them to whatever you use in the rest of the series. And whatever you use in the rest of...

The MC of the story I'm working on now is a bit of an anti-sue, (the reverse of a marry sue, a character that's a little overly flawed,) so it's hard to pick just one flaw. However, I'd say teenage angst is probably the one that's gotten her into more trouble than any of her other flaws, so...

Not the way the Parahumans universe works, dude. Only the freaks and crazies and complete posers have an arch nemesis... which, come to think of it, actually that IS the way the Parahumans universe works. I just described literally 80% of all parahumans just there.