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So the anti-Thomas Covenant?

Usually you get about four - the approver, yourself, yourself again, and someone else. If you're lucky, you get a few more within the first 24 hours.

Used as a tool, AI is great. Used as a crutch it is poison.

Unforgiven. Red Dead Redemption. The second Alone in the Dark game. Deadlands. The Three Amigos. The Rifleman. The Virginian. Rawhide. Anything Louis L'Amour wrote. A handful of, believe it or not, Harlequin Romances.

I tend to write fights in one of three ways: Type One: Single character versus either one or a small number of foes. I go into detail with moves and thoughts for that one character (sometimes they fight alone, sometimes not), and everyone else is just acting/reacting or triggering events for...

Even though I'm only legally an adult (and have been for 2.5 decades, and almost never act mature, I usually have to use those two tags myself... :biggrin_s:

Dane Coleman - guy I maybe met somewhere who got executed for vigilante justice. Dave, Malcolm and Carol - people I met through gaming, David and Mal might even be co-workers. Would probably not know Audrey or Liz, unles Liz worked with my wife. If Thellissandra lived in the real world ...

Dark Fantasy does not always mean gray area protagonists. It can mean horror stories with traditional fantasy elements (the novels and gaming setting for AD&D 2e and 3e - Ravenloft - was of this type, though the gray area stuff ruled the rust in the spin-off "Ravenloft: Masque of the Red...

I generally don't read anything with over ten chapters unless it's marked Completed just because I may run out of time or lose the link to it (online; with print stuff this is rarely an issue)

For print, any length is valid (Peter David had a chapter of a book that was literally just the chapter number and "It seemed the polite thing to do." in Howling Mad), but 3000-7000 is considered standard. For webnovels. 1000-5000 is "valid" with 1500 to 2500 the "sweet spot" to aim for. At...

If it's only happening in that chapter, on it; if it happens in other chapters too, both. At least that seems to be the standard.

Misrepresenting-Everything?

The drawing made me think of that. The seventies were a WEIRD time, and rock stars even weirder it seems...

Reminds me of a story Alice Cooper told on his old radio program - one year, The Who was touring in Detroit but there were no hotels with rooms available willing to rent rooms to them given their reputation for property damage, so he offered his place for them for the three days they were in...

The following line is not needed but can stay - doesn't seem to help or harm the synopsis.

A pretty flower, that smells bad.

So you want an Architectural System?

Experiments in alternate history

Kind of tangential but once I was out riding around with some friends and we saw a tornado funnel cloud. For some reason, the kid driving thought it would be a good idea to follow it, and we DID for about two minutes, before he suddenly stopped the car and said: "What the hell are we doing...

Sounds like "Adult Content" warning is appropriate.