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Not sure I could pick a single favorite, even just from the two I have posted here (kind of feels like trying to pick out a favorite child), but one of my current favorites is from one I have not posted anywhere yet: Several hours later, Malcolm awoke with a mass of red curls covering his...

If a lot of terms and characters come up sporadically, or you make a setting interesting enough for the reader to want more, then the glossary is a great idea; otherwise it seems there would be better uses for your time as an author. Unless, of course, you use it to track names and places for...

I think that is kind of the point. It is play with words, to turn them into art instead of a story. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not, and sometimes it is a very personal thing that has different meanings to each reader (and that can include "no meaning at all, just words strung...

Having been to a few concerts, it really varies with the artist; some are much better live (Have been to a few shows with "Yes" - or rather some core members of Yes, sometimes performing AS Yes, other times as solo artists and other times as "AWR" - Anderson/Wakeman/Rabin, and they are just a...

Hmm - back then I usually was helping build sets, or (once) was an actor on the stage (not in a musical though) and we tried not to be amateurish, even though we WERE amateurs... :D Actually our school and our local community players' group were both very good and very encouraging of young...

Could always research the dialogue in Marvel's old "Journey into Mystery" books (before Thor took over the title as his own). The Black Knight used some of that in some of his early appearances too but that did not last long, unlike "goldilocks" himself who kept up with that flowery language...

It always feels to me like I don't give enough clues to population sizes but I have had people tell me otherwise so... no idea (and most of my world building was for RPGs).

I just never have the time to review stuff or would do more myself.

You left out one other thing a writer can do to improve: Challenge yourself. Especially if you hit writer's block in an ongoing story, pick something you would not usually write, or something you do write but in a different way, and write something there. If you've never written erotica, or...

I watched two or three sessions of Knights of the Dinner Table (comic book/magazine) being drawn and written. That was interesting (especially when the writer kept asking for facts from the viewers, like "which issue did this character first appear in?" and got about three ballpark answers...

Well, I'm more a "Plans are good and needed when you start, but no plan ever survives contact with the MC" type... :D

This discussion seems to be plodding along... And I think the original meaning of the word "Indulgences" was close to "things forgiven" but it became something else (a way to buy others out of "purgatory" because they were dead and unable to earn forgiveness on their own, apparently)

Wow - have not seen this one since my early days on AOL back in the mid 90s... Yeah, its a scam, a little bit updated but a scam

What I have found over the years is that you need a basic structure - not an ending per se, but a climax - in mind. The characters may well tell you that you're full of it and take things in different directions (have one story I'm working on where a character meant to be a minor supporting...

That cannot die which has the power to eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die... Assuming the dream came with some strange flutes too, that is. I very rarely remember dreams, usually only if I partially wake up and intentionally continue them, which is sometimes more weird than...

In the Eleventh Doctor's episode "The Pandorica Opens" of Doctor Who, Matt Smith gave one of the most epic speeches, ending with the line: "so let someone else make the first strike" - there have been a lot of epic speeches on that series, really - Peter Capaldi had a few, Tom Baker's short...

I am more likely to look for a story with very few chapters posted to get a feel for it and see if I want to go further myself, but I'm probably an odd duck.

There are always massive potential pitfalls in travelling to the past (at least one of which is undoing her sacrifice to save her and freeing the thing she sought to stop), so always choose to go forward when that is an option.

Usually for me there is just a story or three or five that want to come out. Every once in a while I instead set a challenge for myself just to see what I can do, but usually it is just that a story wants to be told and has chosen me for its outlet.

This is something much easier to do in a visual medium (manga, anime, film) than a purely verbal one. The writer is already either in the head of one character or an omniscient viewer, and sharing their perspective with the reader. Moving into another head is like jumping tracks on a train car...