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Ah - maybe that was the way they stated it in the laughable adaptation of Earthsea the Sci Fi channel did before it became SyFy. The one where the only real reason to watch was Kristen Kreuk. They even got the lead wrong, since he was about as Caucasian as you could get, which caused LeGuinn...

Show a way to code this without outright banning it and I'll support your suggestion. But I don't think this is an easy thing - more effective would be to issue a warning each time a chapter is below a certain size, and have the warnings expire after seven or ten days. Collect three or more...

Recall hearing a few (some of which I've shamelessly stolen) over the years. A variation of the above, used to describe a very good-looking but not very bright woman: "She has an empty upstairs apartment, but man what a staircase." One of the stranger ones I've heard: "I don't have a mother -...

Actually, this line is not 100% correct, especially when it comes to comic books. Yes, the fictional universes have rules ("character" and "story" bibles even - the one for Batman is allegedly very long and includes a line something like: "Batman is the character; Bruce Wayne is one mask he...

Eh, I don't see any reason to not allow this. I mean, if the late Peter A. David could pull off a chapter that was nothing more than a chapter title and: "It seemed the polite thing to do at the time." in his novel Howling Mad, I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed occasionally. Maybe give a...

I've had it say that "you can't just introduce a character like this" and insist I'm making a mistake just because it's been about 20 chapters since I first introduced the character and then had no reason to use him until now. I've had a few other moments too where it gets upset with me and I...

Initial engagement was better at RR but it didn't last. Here it's been slow but steady.

For the stuff I do on Pocket FM, when I have the time and patience to play with their AI tool, it is rewarding - it adds in sound effects and music cues and sometimes makes suggestions that are very helpful (it also, and I only found this out last week, tells me when it thinks I did something...

Heh - she doesn't bother with message boards (especially writing ones - maybe occasional political ones) and told me why she dropped the story (didn't like all the "military jargon" that crept in - 99% of it straight from Star Trek but with the serial numbers filed off, by the way - and its only...

Ah then unless I got it in one of the Amazon sampler bundles (and then it would only have been about four or eight chapters probably), it was something else. 2007 seems as far back as the 90s at times...

There are few moments that surprise me in my own writing, ever since I stopped over planning and started "listening" to the characters (I still sometimes force them to take certain paths, but not always the way I'd intended at the outset), but there are some, like realizing a side character was...

Why make it Harry Potter though? He NEEDS to go to Hogwarts due to his ties to Riddle. Now a normal-ish kid, like Tim Hunter (Vertigos Books of Magic series, but a limited series and then an ongoing one) looked a bit like Harry and even had an owl familiar (the appearance thing was...

If you mean EVER, it was when a friend of mine told me his class spent nearly 45 minutes - about 3x as long as it took me to write! - discussing a piece accepted for our college's literary magazine. One of my goals as a writer is to make people think - even if what they think is "what an...

That is fairly typical for this site.

It was a joke. Can't maintain a true dash at my age. I use an EM dash whenever editing software suggests it. Used to use it a lot - even had the ASCII code for it memorized, along with ° and a few others, but that was back in the 90s and early aughts.

Could be - was something I stumbled on by accident in the 90s I think, and just barely remember.

The honest answer is: I use them whenever spell check suggests them and I can't see a better way to reword the section (so about 2/3 of the time it suggests it).

The stories I've seen from it were all "dark future" (but with bright colors). Kind of an American version of the mag Judge Dredd debuted in (AD 2500 or something like it.) Never seen a full issue nor more than a few clips from the animated film though. Sounds like a good but challenging...

It seems ... familiar, like I've run into a very similar concept somewhere before in a fantasy novel or game or something (I think it was one where True Names were used as magic - not just the true names of People but of Things, like to attack someone with fire you needed to know the True Name...

More of an EM sprint these days.