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Really got me into it? Children's books about dinosaurs. Read so many I have no clue what any of the titles are (but my first grade teacher commented: "It is ... interesting having him in class when we discuss dinosaurs. He keeps correcting my pronunciation, and when I look into it later, the...

The war game Warforged has a faction that is, essentially, a science fantasy Soviet Russia (one of my favorites in the game), though it's been a few years since I played it).

I think it may be more a matter of style. Some authors need to use complex language to get ideas across, others work best with simplicity.

For near human races, the physical organ is at least similar, if not identical, to humans, but the chemistry behind it is not. Well, most of the time. Sometimes I'll play with even more fantastic concepts, like a world where there are no female dwarves because all dwarves are formed from rock...

I started here. Reposted one story to Royal Road (got one review, at Chapter 4 out of 21 IIRC, that still amuses me; in a nutshell "Author did what he set out to do. I didn't like it."), and did one story as an original there (only response was a scrubber site making an unauthorized audio...

As the priest began the words of the exorcism, I suddenly felt my hold on my body beginning to slip.

"They called me mad. I'm not mad. Maybe a little angry..."

Etruscan

Have been making new monsters since 1983. Some are parodies of real people, additions to folklore, strange stuff that popped into my head, or even weirder things (like the Pickerberry bush - a shrubbery that picks pockets; the Grapes of Wrath - cursed grapes that can use weapons or hurl...

The first one looks like a work I saw a few times in the 70s. Not the same but definitely borrows from the same sources. The third one looks like someone added detail to one of the color plates in the second edition (though for the fourth of the game itself) Vampire Counts sourcebook for...

Three to five seems to be the rule for TV shows. Which usually works well, except for aberrations like The Last Ship: pick any sequence of five episodes from the first three seasons ... they have to be in sequence ... you'll find two absolutely brilliant episodes, one "Good but not great" one...

My one successful story here hit its stride around chapter 11 (unfortunately the history doesn't go back that far as far as I can tell to verify). The "sweet spots" that tend to draw readers are: 1. Getting a lot of comments and reviews and activity to combine and go into trending. (which...

There has to be a reason people make it TO the fourth book in general. Give the first one a shot - if there IS something, maybe a character you like or a concept that seems new and fresh, stick with it for one book and decide whether to keep going or not... Or, just do what I wound up doing a...

Fifty chapters. That seems to be when readership picks up if it ever will.

Crusader Codex

I disagree with some of his examples (Burroughs deserves better, as, believe it or not, does Hubbard - unless you're considering Scientology and Dianetics to be fantasy instead of an experiment in building a religion that got out of hand...), but his ideas are sound. I suspect I'm a level 2/3...

Don't think I had the line exactly but was close. A few times I had it exactly though, even the inflections once.

It was a minor point but it was consistently done and important for a few characters (including the rogue spook who was Jefferson's mentor in the absence of Batman in the series), and I just loved it as something you almost never see. The religious figures are either cynical, hypocritical, or...

It depends on two things: 1. How important is it to the author to have either the MC or the reader know what really happened? Sometimes you need to tell them everything, sometimes only the reader needs to know (for example, the gods of the Diskworld are playing a role-playing game with dice and...

Varies wildly. Usually but not always Well, the only time this ever happened to me was with the movie Species - the first time I saw it, I was literally quoting dialogue as the actors were saying it without ever seeing a script or any stories it was based on, it was THAT "by-the-numbers."...