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I tried reading it a while ago and something felt "off", but I couldn't quite place it. Meant to come back and see if I could figure it out but kept finding more interesting things to do and then just forgot about it - but you nailed it right here, it (the prologue - either I didn't finish or...

And his enemies call him Archie?

Most of my stories grow out of a "what if?" question and I rarely backtrack. Occasionally characters take things in directions I hadn't planned (for example, one character I had originally only planned to be the friend everyone bumps into in passing, with no real role in the story, just would...

Man - wish I could remember more details of some of my dreams (some I kind of want to forget). Had one strange dream where something was chasing me and I somehow ran INSIDE a newspaper, with it pursuing me between text rows and even into the comics section where I tried to find help but...

That was my first guess, but in book 7 or 8 (one of the two in the series I have NOT read - though the last one was apparently co-written by someone else under Harris's direction and does not feel the same, judging by reviews), you find out Sookie is half-fairy (and thus irresistible to...

Already did that in the story submitted on Honeyfeed - his parents are both tied up for work so plan to celebrate the day after and he spends the evening with his soon-to-be-girlfriend and her mom and sister instead (then shares a slice of cake with his dad). All after fighting giant monsters...

That was one of the powers a character who used the codename "Geomancer" used in a story I never finished putting together (wound up first trying to write it as a script, then a Champions adventure, then a novel, then an Icons adventure, and then kind of scrapped it altogether). She also could...

I've considered it, but then see my wife use the function on her tablet for her work. It seems she spends more time editing what it THOUGHT she said into what she did say than she does actually saying it...

Interesting - I heard one professional bowler was trained by his father (who owned the alley) putting six pins in the normal target area, and two each in every gutter. He could not remember ever throwing a ball that did not knock over at least one pin. Kind of the reverse of this (unless the...

Writing is creating a shared hallucination (unless the "theory" that writers are actually psychics who view other worlds and try to chronicle the events they witness there is true - then it is even weirder...) to direct others into. Very, very weird, yes.

Depends on the story and situation but for webnovels it seems an average of 1200-2500 is standard.

Sounds like the reverse of how "Sanity" stats work in most games (the first one that I am aware of, Call of Cthulhu, had Sanity rated from 1 to 99 - no mortal creature can go above 99, and anything that drops below 1 becomes permanently insane; another one, an optional rule for Dungeons and...

Have created characters in games who rely on this (including one Champions character who, aside from his two major flaws, was shamelessly based on Mandrake the Magician - his flaws were that he was "hunted" by a journalist who "exposed" him as a fraud, so nobody believes (due to a Reputation...

Pretty much the same as yesterday. Still trying to get one story done before I dive back into the ongoing ones and should finish this weekend, with luck.

I pretty much grew up with British authors (Tolkien, Lewis, Nesbitt - and after spending some time with native Yank authors like Heinlein, Niven, Baum, I got into Lovecraft who preferred the British spellings and claimed to still view the US as "the colonies" despite being a Rhode Island...

Well, that is great, unless you suffer from a schizoid personality disorder like Divided Identity Disorder. Or you are a writer or actor who so fully embraces your characters that, for brief moments in time, you become them - which may well be the same thing, come to think of it.

The two systems that were merged to create that (Poser and Bryce) were the ones I was using. Have tried to use the current version but have to relearn everything from scratch, and the hard part was really making good textures.

Was expecting a quote from the song "Mister Roboto" here... (probably because they used it in the episode of "Pantheon" I watched yesterday...) "The time has come at last To throw away this mask Now everyone can see My true identity, (tee, tee, tee)..." Enjoy your vacation!

Whatever fits. I personally prefer at least a number (partly because upload order is not always accurate). Some stories lend themselves to detailed chapter titles, some to single-word ones or just numbers. I had one story (sadly lost after multiple computer issues) where each chapter had the...

Only at the conceptual stage. Used to have some good 3D graphic software, but did not have the patience to do more than create a few of the characters I would need and one of the sets, so scrapped it. If I could do (decent) artwork by hand, I might have gotten somewhere with it (one of the...