Search results

On the plus side, the abbreviated version that showed up here interested me enough to read the full version. Unfortunately, the full version felt overlong and a more like ... well, what someone said upthread, what the marketing department decided to put on a paperback, and felt kind of like I...

Have only ever done, IIRC, two (aside from stuff for classes in the distant past) and stand by both still (one was for a REALLY bad book in a bundle on Amazon and the other was for a friend who was begging for reviews at a time I could sit down and read his book and be honest, and mostly...

Cliffhangers are tricky - I think I am starting to get the hang of them but sometimes still keep going. The trick is to break the action up right at the "interesting" bit - right where it looks the most dangerous or heart-wrenching or to be the biggest twist, just STOP right there. Take a...

The problem with a 1 (or 5) star rating "in a void" is you do not know if: 1) The person who rated it just hated (or, if 5* loved) the concept (which has nothing to do with the WRITING) so much that they could think of nothing to say and just marked it - or - 2) The rater is just not the target...

Ah. So a story where the MCs find that a game they play is based on an alternate world (and that they can travel there) would be something else?

That could work. I've seen other people say the only use they would have for an AI is to have it write the text for an AI... Then again, I have a schizophrenic AI which is trying to stop itself from escaping into the real world so it is both an asset to the MC AND the Big Bad - and only...

At least they kept your name on it. Send them a Cease and Desist letter first, I think, and then go the DMCA route is what I would do. Fortunately they don't seem to like my stuff enough to pirate it...

It changes a lot but probably The Tick.

I'm only halfway through (at the first Villain Attack Arc) myself so can't help but sounds about right. A bit mocking but only a bit.

The story that's up is about 1K per chapter and will probably end around chapter 20 or so, maybe 25 (but I already have plans for a sequel) The one that's pending is a lot longer all around, about 3k per chapter and at most one third of the way through at present.

I try to go with: 1. Skills: Abilities that improve with use. Skills are needed to control magic but true magic relies on all four elements. 2. Talents: Innate abilities that may be latent (and thus unlocked via skills, the use of other talents, external factors, etc.) or active from the...

Usually repetitive use of one word is a bad thing There are exceptions, like when the word is part of a character's personality quirk and it just slips in there, but in general you should look for different words to convey the same thing. You never really do. And a writer is usually their...

I do not think there could be a "hard and fast rule" - some such relationships will never be toxic, some start that way and mutate into something positive, some take a short while to go bad but then do. It is, sadly just like real life only weirder (and, usually, faster)...

I think there is some fear as to exactly WHAT would be "leveling up" there....

What exactly is the difference between these?

I would say make the party itself the MC and have the focus shift between characters as fits the current story situation. Start in medias res with the group of four traveling between two locations, then have the first few chapters include flashbacks explaining how they met and got to the first...

Well, with mine about 1/3 of it was "explained" as the hero realized what he could do, another third comes out when he is forced to prove he has actual magical ability, and the rest seeps out in bits and pieces as the story progresses.

The few times I have done this, it was usually in first person and the MC either did not initially realize he was the villain until very late in the story, or it was a horror story and the MC was holding information back from the reader until it was time to reveal the truth.

I know a guy who, working with a friend, managed to get $200 out of one of the "Nigerian Princes" before turning the whole record of their interactions over to the FBI (who said "Good work on getting something from these guys. It's better than we usually do"). I was hit with the "other side"...

So far I have avoided this by having several different stories I am working on (and when I tire of writing stories I shift to writing adventure scenarios for RPGs). If I stop writing it is because either a job became too demanding or I have been too distracted by other issues (like the doll...