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So far it hasn't come up. I did have months and days renamed for my world (as each month has five weeks of seven days each, and there are two other festival days not in the sequence; each season lasts three months exactly, and there is an extra day between Autumn and Winter, and between Spring...

On a scale of "Invading Blancmange" to "Black Knight With Four Severed Limbs" It rates "Dead Parrot"

Shh: Don't tell my ten readers and about 100 listeners or they might get upset... :D

Then you go by arc. One of mine (Between Worlds) should be about 500 total, between either two or three books (expect book one to wrap up around 100 or 120 or so - it's currently at 78 for book 1, 1 for book 2 and nothing for book three, if that one even is needed; might wind up as two...

Incidentally, the late James M. Ward had a kind of neat system. Other than days he had to take off for medical reasons, eight events a year (two charity things his wife took part in, the two conventions he went to regularly, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving, The Fourth of July and the day after he...

I edit frequently/constantly. Whenever I find an error, I go back and edit (listening to the audio versions shows a lot of errors I'd miss just reading it, by the way). Whenever I realize something in a previous chapter no longer works, I go back and edit. Any time I post to a new platform I...

Philosophy and Psychology shape mythology, at least in an historical sense. I have always been as intrigued by what people believed as by why they believed it, and love finding the true source of some myths, legends and folklore (especially when the source is "close enough" to the myth but...

Not enough according to Pocket FM - they really want 10 chapters (of 1k to 5k words, with the ideal in the 1.5k- 2.5k range) a week. I'm doing about 11... between two stories (was managing six to seven when only working on one)...

Superheroes are a modern mythology (well, modern soap opera with colorful costumes and special effects since the late 80s but...) - circus performers following a grand tradition dating back to Gilgamesh and Beowulf, and at one time delivering a moral message (that Optimism, Patriotism and/or...

There are a few tags I'll generally avoid, like Sports or Smut, but nothing that is a guaranteed draw. I'm more likely to look at an interesting title, then look for tags I have no interest in and move on, or read the synopsis if there are none (and then flag either as "Probably won't read but...

Well, in my Digital Cowboy/Digital Cowboy Dane, the character died and was literally drawn into an AI-driven video game. And yes, there are reasons why it happened - and all PCs (Travelers) and a few NPCs (NTs - though they have a very limited one, and usually only gain access if elevated to...

The only characters who show much in the way of religion are Spock (Kolinahr), Uhura ("generic Christian") and, later Worf (an odd mix of Klingon and Christian, due to his unusual upbringing). A big part of this was Rodenberry expected that the future would be one where religion was a trivial...

It depends how critical this is to the overall story. If it just makes it more interesting, helps the flow but does not impact the events (like not foreshadowing), make notes to yourself to correct when done. If it does affect the story, like you have a character in two places, or used the...

Text is much clearer. The first one she looks scheming, possibly evil. The second one just looks angry. Not sure which is more fitting for the story.

Ah - forgot one book that changed everything for me - Robert Heinlein's The Star-Beast. Lummox introduced me to science fiction; before that, I had only known children's books, epic fantasy, silly fantasy and horror (and HATED Fairy Tales - just could not abide these stories about horrible...

First books I read? Not sure if either Frog and Toad Together or Who's Mouse are You? Though the first thing that I read that impacted me was probably the first poem I ever memorized - The Jabberwocky. First books I REMEMBER though were dad reading Lord of the Rings to mom and I when I was...

About once every two or three years I'll pick up a romance (my wife had quite a few scattered around the house before we did a big book donation and she got rid of all the ones she could remember more than two plot points in - this meaning she either "read it but it didn't stick" or she "started...

I had a horror story I lost to a hard drive crash that I kept having to step away from because it got so dark. Was about 2/3 done when I finished it and I keep wanting to go back but the darkness is a little scarier than the story itself...

Depends on the monster. Recall Brigadier Aleister Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart being very pleased to finally encounter a monster that wasn't bullet proof on Doctor Who. Usually it's a matter of scale - King Kong (original version) felt normal bullets, but about the same way we'd feel a B.B. or...

One question, though... why is this in the Artist's forum and not Authors or Readers?