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Stan Lee had the same issue. It's why Robert Bruce Banner, Jr. disowned his father and refuses to be called Bob, even when he IS The Hulk, and Peter Parker had at least three different names, one of which made it to print, the rest were caught and corrected, in his first five scripts. With...

Life goals?

I have a sneaking suspicion that there is a 75% chance this post would be better off in "Writing Prompts" a little below here, a 24% chance that it belongs in Forum Games at the "bottom" of the forum, and a 1% chance that, with a bit more detail and maybe an example or links to a few examples...

All "feelings" are electrochemical reactions to stimuli. Love IS one of them. What is NOT a feeling is how a person reacts to those feelings. The problem with focusing on realistic reactions is that you're catering to a very small niche group within an already small group - AND, unless...

I would argue that A Princess of Mars could be considered the first Isekai - though he "got better" at the end and wasn't dead after all... Though might have been at the VERY end, after talking to his favorite nephew (the person who "published" his "memoirs")

Most of my characters are pastiches - mixes of people I run into and characters I see on TV or read about. One character was created entirely because I saw a guy on the street in Chelsea, MA, who looked like he had literally been cast in bronze and brought to life - no clue who he was or...

A lot of times, I get mildly annoyed by the time factor - some stuff (like "moving on/forgiving") is often presented as far too fast to be realistic - but that is often done because it is needed for plot purposes, and a realistic timing would just add a dozen chapters of soul searching and the...

I was thinking that sounded like cannibalism, but then remembered Elmer's uses a bull on the packaging but horses in the product... I have no idea how long my fiction will last. Some of it is likely already gone, while some of it may well outlive me by decades or centuries. It's up to readers...

Worst I ever read the whole story for was the male lead in Henry James's "Portrait of the Lady" - just an awful character, the worst kind of "gothic romance" villain posing initially as a hero but revealing his true colors quickly (and, other than the castles they live in occasionally, he's the...

Start by giving each character some unique quirk or catch phrase and build out from there. For example, I have a character who frequently replies "aww!" and calls people "dear heart" - especially but not entirely her boyfriend (who is the only other character who ever uses that phrase in the...

Write up a list of descriptors. If one character is a large, red-haired man named Bruno with a thick moustache, alternate between "Him," "Bruno," "The large man," and things like "The man with the moustache." Of course, this only works if he is the only guy with all these traits - if all your...

Ah you want a "popsicle" licking scene not a "popsicle licking scene" - or a literal blow job rather than a suggestive eating of a popsicle? Could help with the latter, but not the former, beyond have a lot of meaningful eye contact before the first physical contact and frequently throughout...

Neither good nor bad but fairly typical stats AFAICT.

They are one of the more entertaining couples for me to write. Actually, I think I'd probably be bored by either of them alone but have a lot of fun with them together.

Buddy Baker or Garfield Logan, as they can become all of the animals... Oh - overlooked the absolute best one - Animal of Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem...

They seem to be getting bolder - saw a video ad on Facebook for a company that, if you send them a chapter of your book, will illustrate "a few key scenes" and come back with an offer to illustrate the rest of the book. They aren't coming to us to scam us, they're begging us to go to them...

Try writing slice of life in a brothel? You never really know what will connect with readers and what won't until it does (or doesn't).

And literature professors in the 20s-50s said pretty much the same thing about how the pulps were ruining literature. They were probably right back then too but ... eh.

I had a moment like that between two characters. Was a bit more ... obnoxious though, I think....

Though it would depend on the specific power set (If I spread disease at a touch, well, that's less likely to have ANY benevolent use, while super strength could go both ways, and healing is generally geared towards "good"), but most likely I would TRY to use it for good, and be successful for a...