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Except for the "Every Friday" (and implied "regular readers") I have pretty much been there. Just stick to a release schedule for one book - you'll get to the important chapter eventually. And the muse may be fickle and play hard to get for a few days or weeks so best to be safe... OR set up...

Ah - the classic example is probably Persephone in Greek mythology - Hades kidnapped her to be his wife and she was ordered to not eat or drink anything while she was there or she would never escape. She held off for a while but finally broke down and ate six out of twelve pomegranate seeds...

For me, every once in a while bits of a story DEMAND to be told so I sit down and write them if I can (and sweat a little and hope to remember them when I have a chance to write if I can't... and then forget them 90% of the time). So the motivation has never been an issue for me, just finding...

Usually, people write in genres that interest them so seeing what is similar can help create a reading list, and also see how some tags work - or fail to work - as some of the "similar to..." stuff... well... really is not.

Not sure what a "government name" is and the only nickname that I know of that I ever had that stuck was "Iggy"

The best I've seen is at the end of "Big Trouble in Little China" - Jack Burton does all this stuff to help Grace, and then, at the end, when she clearly (finally) is interested in him... just gets back in his rig and drives to the next town ("Aren't you going to kiss her?" "Nope"). I think...

I think this was one I saw mentioned in another thread as having moved to a pay site. Either that or someone lamented that it hadn't in a thread about stories that had moved to pay sites.

We-el Vampires are much more varied than that. The Chinese "Hopping Vampire" is more of a ghost that can assume one of three material forms - a songbird to charm victims, a rain cloud to travel, and its normal, monstrous form with long, sharp fingernails, powerful legs, an inability to walk...

The first book was great. Made me wish I had Robert Jordan's ability to describe things (but, oddly, not people) so intricately that I felt like I was THERE. By the third book, I wished HE had MY ability to gloss over descriptions and only point out unusual or exceptional details. By the...

Depends on which story. In several, the mid-stage villains often either slink off into the shadows, possibly to return in a sequel, or wind up providing key information to defeat (or, in at least one case, to REVEAL) the main villain, usually by switching sides, sometimes just before death...

I had been wanting to see it for years; was very happy to see two versions running back to back on Universal Classic Monsters channel on Roku last night. Still have not seen the two versions considered the best (a silent version and the first Universal black and white one - part of a quest to...

I would consider slipping it into the Voynich manuscript ... but that might be the key to unlocking the whole thing so maybe not worth the risk?

I could literally see that happen to Saitama... or maybe it did - there's a lot more in the manga than the anime...

Ever since the age of fourteen, Parker Wallace (who recently celebrated an 18th birthday) has been plagued by dreams of a snake and a large ball of fire. For the last year, Parker, who is best described as "Bishonen" - nobody is completely sure if it is a boy or a girl, and Parker likes keeping...

So most of the work would be rapid-fire mathematics and keyboarding. The latter I could still handle, the former I would need a really good computer or great assistant to handle now.

Ouch. Only recall two novels I read enough of to dislike enough to give bad reviews and only finished one: "Portrait of the Lady" by Henry James. Ugh. Hopefully I'm not in one of the lead male roles, and if I got stuck in the lead female role... well, if there's free will, the story would...

Guess I should have said "hi" two weeks ago... :D My name is my name (got the name of the dead grandfather for my first name and the then-living one for my middle name). Currently writing while between jobs so have a good backlog in case I want to do more than one story here (though looking at...

Watching a movie and a remake of it that could have benefited from this. The Hammer remake of "Phantom of the Opera" did a little more believable (but far more brutal) corruption arc than the Claude Raines version (still have not seen the older B&W ones), but in both cases it seems a little too...

Can't give a specific answer for the question asked but do know three things that I did not like the first time I encountered them but loved them on a second viewing: Orphan Black Firefly Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

Carve it into the plates of Guttenberg's original printing press.