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A Study in Scarlet was one of Arthur Conan Doyle's few novels - it has Holmes in it very briefly (IIRC twice, kind of a "framing device"). A small section of that novel does criticize unions, and a larger section does attack, IIRC (read it in the 80s so may be blurring details), founder John...

All of the old comic strips have collections. Some of them, like the Peanuts books (the "Charlie Brown" comics) are frequently reprinted or collected into additional volumes due to agreements with King Features Syndicate. Some of the others are not reprinted as often, like Hagar the Horrible...

You and your friends are both right - but writing IS a kind of therapy. Do a search - you'll find a half a dozen (or more) stories with SIMILAR (though I don't THINK any with the SAME) concept already here.

If you're into the Arthurian stuff, I'd go to either the more historical ones like Bernard Cornwall, or the more fantastical ones like Cordway Jones, rather than going "back to the source" (as there are a lot of bad translations out there). You can't go wrong with Shakespeare, but it often...

If it is important to the story, then either have a prologue or two characters discussing it (or both). If not, then just let it evolve naturally, and keep the explanation document handy to share if someone asks (or as a Patreon extra for the curious, if you go that route)

Zergs - one of the classic Starcraft races. The most effective strategy when using them is to use their fast propagation ability, create massive, low power armies, and swarm over everything in sight; the Zerg Rush.

It depends on how extreme, how fast, and why the transformation takes place. A simple gender change may happen without any real awareness in the "victim" until it's over. Changing from human to a non-bipedal mammalian form should at least have some discomfort, if not some actual pain, unless...

Present tense works best with Second Person (especially if you can also avoid passive voice most of the time).

Or at least offer a free sample first. "This is what your work inspired me to do."

Fearing you didn't understand second person, you posted stating that you were unsure of what it would look like, but now you are experiencing some doubts as to the matter. Maybe you need a sandwich. Or a Snickers(TM) bar.

The fans continuing his work was done against his express wishes, IIRC. Unless I'm mixing his story up with another writer who died about the same time, he had of his friends go through his computers and workbooks. submit the one finished document they found to his editor, and then destroyed...

Someone else has an ex-marine named Dane as an MC? Oh boy... :D May have to read this if I have time (working two jobs and trying to write does not leave a lot of time to read)

I think HelenWave444 was the one who contacted last month and finally shared a portfolio of artwork that fit worst into the story she claimed she was inspired by...

As an aside - the final arc in Ten Years Later has one of the best heroic deaths (and a death the character probably appreciated, even if it felt kind of pointless at the time). And the arc expanded into Blood Royal (pretty much the middle of the book IIRC, or maybe it was the first half; been...

To be fair, Strange Awakening ALSO explores a bit identity and perception but mostly is the above. The other stories are all pretty much that.

Note that The Three Musketeers is actually a series - in chronological event order: The Three Musketeers The Red Sphinx (which I never heard of before and may have to track down - apparently it was the first Three Musketeers story he started writing, then set aside to write their first meeting...

The Point of View is the specific "voice" or "character" the author has chosen to present the story. In First person, it is the character (or, if the lead rotates, the CURRENT character) events effect directly. In third person, the Author is an unseen force narrating the story for the...

Ah, more specifically, along these lines, I was working on a novella called "Hunter's Moon" - each chapter was told in first person by a different character in the cast, and some of them even included that character's death scene. But each character wound up being darker than the last and I had...

Mine says: "Hi there. If you need to pass some time, I'll help you. I hope you'll enjoy it and that I'll eventually get some money from it."

I think so but the tutorial for new users in the General chat group goes into real detail on it.