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I just happened across this video on communication in a professional setting, and it made me realize something about how we characterize our characters. It talks a lot about what the use of certain words says about you and what impressions it makes for the listener. Well, these sorts of...

So, for the sake of feedback as well as visibility to readers, there are several reasons you might want to have your work reviewed. Some of the best people to review your work are other authors, as we are more likely to know the technicalities that are more worth being called as well as using...

I am writing a story in which each of the 4 elements has an elemental plane. Each plane has a name by which it is referred, not just "Plane of (insert element.)" So far, I have names for the worlds of Wind, Fire, and Earth. Wind = Ether. Fire = Efreet. Earth = Agarath. I do not have a name...

I just happened across a rather interesting video on the history of warewolves in fiction, folklore, and how those beliefs relate to historical events. This is some pretty good stuff and there are some very interesting concepts and ideas to work with here.

These are just some thoughts I have had about comedy in writing. I often notice that novels that have the "comedy" tag tend to really not do well, and I think a lot of this is because a lot of authors really don't understand what it takes for a work of writing to be funny. Comedy is a rather...

I am something of an armature lore historian. I would not call myself an expert, nothing even close to it. In fact, a lot of the things I know have largely been from some casual web searches on whatever I happened to be interested in at the time. However, I have over the process of a year or so...

I have seen too many people favoring speed in story-telling for a while. From the perspective of someone who has trained both HEMA and Kenjutsu, I think it is high time to debunk the OP portrayal of speed. It is just not as effective a factor in combat as people give it credit for. If you want...

A piece of advice I once got talking to a real published author at a writing event is that you should be able to find some way to sum up your story in a short 15 second speech, saying something that will be appealing and very interest catching in as short a time as possible. This is important...

So, I saw something awesome come up in another thread which I have actually been employing myself in my own work as well. It is a method to keep Webnovel from stealing your work. Webnovel is infamous for plagiarizing other people's work. They are based out of China, so they don't have to uphold...

I am trying to link an image from my Imagur account. I have done it before and managed to link images into a story on the site. https://www.scribblehub.com/read/16995-second-life-as-the-sister-of-a-goddess/chapter/145803/ However, when I try to do THE EXACT SAME THING that I did before now...

I just got this idea from a little rant I got triggered into by someone trying to complain about it being too hard to improve their writing past certain issues, even after I told them the exact method I used to get past the same issue. The line in particular that got me going off was when I...

I am someone who has gone through the trouble of creating my own custom language for the series I am writing, and this effort has a way of really making you consider the way we use our own language. I have recently been considering the concept of a turn of phrase and how it develops, and I...

I was just looking into what I could find on the Russian Firebird based off another conversation I was having, and I suddenly ran across a piece of Russian folk music called Tale of the Firebird and couldn't help but notice how similar it sounded to the Tetris A theme. I know Tetris was also a...

I just noticed I had a very unusually low view count for this time of the day for my series. It's no big deal, it happens. However, this is the requisite 2 days after my posting day, which usually brings a boost due to placing somewhere on trending. So, I checked out where I ranked in. My...

Just a thought I had after reading something over in the writing prompts that I thought I'd share. A lot of classing liteRPG story lines have the trope of Hero Vs. Demon lord. And, in that sense, the hero and the demon lord are framed as being the 2 prominent powers in the story-line. But...

Either way works for me, I am mostly looking for well implemented characters portrayed in a purely written format. I admire the character archetype, but all of the actual GOOD ones I'm aware of came about from visual media. (2 of the best I'm aware of are Hisoka from Hunter X Hunter who is...

So, there is a certain very stupid argument some people make whenever you try to point out an inconsistency in a fantasy story. It goes a little something like this. "You realize you are trying to ask for logic in a world where magic exists, right?" There are several dozen reasons why any...

So, as the title suggests. We have all heard the concept of a "genre breakdown" which was a term that became very popularized in 2012 when Madoka Magica hit the shores of the US under it's English translation and Re:Zero and Kono-Suba were coming out in Japan. It became a new genre descriptor...

The Epic of Gilgamesh tells the story of a man who was born from the gods, given every powerful tool at his disposal, and told he was to be the hero of humanity. He turns into a tyrant king and the worst villain the land has ever seen and the gods panic as they have to now contribute more of...

I just got finished watching Das Rheingold, the first of Wagner's 4 part epic Ring Cycle. I've heard people comment on how powerful and transformative this epic opera was. I had not really payed it much thought, but after watching it... WOW! Just the first one. I couldn't believe the power of...