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Struggling through the first chapter. It keeps starting out good, and then hitting a rough sentence that brings it all to a halt. Kind of like driving in heavy traffic. Makes it a little hard to follow the story at times, just trying to hold on for the ride.

Read that a couple of years back and had since forgotten it - good point. Suspect it also inspired the metal of the Red Steel AD&D setting too.

Had this idea pop up in my warped head last night. Have no real idea how or what to do with it past the first chapter, and rather than letting it languish, I'll post it here. Meet Maxwell Harlin. He is a completely average man with two great loves: reading, and being the minion to whichever...

Well, I am going by the word of a friend who claimed to have looked into it (he was a history minor, I think Economics major; don't even recall if this was in college or when I lived in Chicago the decade after college), who believed that the alloy definitely existed, and was used briefly in...

Sounds like an interesting concept, but one VERY easy to do poorly or to overuse. Have never encountered it myself though.

Bug me in a week or two - have about six that I'm slowly plodding through and want to finish before I take on another to review.

There are a few others, though many are "trademarks" of specific publishers - Cinnabril (TSR/WotC trademark) for Red Steel; Vibranium (Marvel Comics), Nth Metal (DC Comics), and about a dozen others I have forgotten. Adamantium and Orichalcum are both derived from Ancient Greek texts (though...

I kind of tried this with one character. Find that Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo are very useful for getting descriptions of these various conditions (including of how they feel to experience), and then just go from there (of course I have the added complexity of having a female character with a male...

Obviously HUNGRY sick minds...

Ah - this thread is the third time I've seen the phrase Manwha anywhere, and the second time for Manhua. Know Manga (at least in a general sense) fairly well though. Wonder if my wife would be interested in these - she, on rare occasion gets into comics, but LOVES Korean television dramedies...

Grew up in a household where mom's family is 100% German, dad's about 10%; developed an abiding hatred of the stuff temporarily renamed "Freedom Cabbage" during World War II as a result.

So.... what exactly IS Manwha?

That is a simpler way of saying what I was thinking, yes. Some cards have properties that work on their own, some cards have properties that only modify (up or down) other cards, and some cards have properties that change either other cards or due to other cards and can go either way...

The NTR beam suggests "The NPR Beam: The target suddenly becomes very interesting, but also incredibly dull; everyone except the power user finds themselves unable to turn away from the victim of the beam, but, unless said victim begins auctioning off stuff, they all immediately fall asleep"

The only time I have seen a story where the protagonist does not interact with the main plot, as he is too focused on his own plots and schemes and pleasures, is the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser. Harry Flashman is a con man, a rogue, a womanizer, who keeps getting sent off into...

the second one, Strange Awakenings. After a night on the town, Kelly Morgan Pierce wakes up in the body of ... Kelly Morgan Pierce. Only this new Kelly is female; her life was remarkably similar to his, but also very different on a few points, some of them very significant. Only 5 (of 17 so...

well, in one of my stories, a few NPCs know or sense the truth, and the MC never denies it to them (except the dying father who sometimes gets it and sometimes does not). MC also opens up with the boyfriend once the MC accepts actually having a boyfriend. Most of the time the MC is just...

It is more how you ask than if, I think. Ask nicely, perhaps with a "focus" ("I need feedback - is this relationship feeling real or forced?" "I am having trouble with dialogue, can anyone give me pointers?" "Is this plot too complicated? Not complicated enough? Too obvious?") and you may get...

Just opening the file on a different device seems to work very well for me. About 90% of my writing is done on my cell phone (most of the rest is on the laptop) with about 75% of my editing done in GoogleDocs on my laptop, and 20% in Scribble Hub whenever I upload (the rest is done on the phone...