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Okay, so here's the scoop: My MC at the start of my story is a rookie member of a police/anti-terrorist organization. Now he has had basic training and already graduated the academy, my MC still lacks field experience. This doesn't mean he doesn't have baseline skills, I mentioned he has several...

Well the thing is the organization my hero joins is already headed by a hostile character, I created the captain to be my MC's commissioner Gordon to his Batman. If I must deliver my plot well... My story is set on an alien world and my MC is an alien himself. He lives in a mostly futuristic...

Yeah if I structured my story in a normal military style story it would be 800 chapters before anything happened. So yes I do have to make some shortcuts as this is an action/science fiction story. It would sure as heck slow the pace of my story to a crawl, and I am aiming for something more...

Let me clarify a few things a bit here: Well I am not talking about an army here nor a war. This is a small scale skirmish between a gang of criminals/terrorist and what is in essence a police force/anti-terrorist group. At best, either side has at least 20 members in this skirmish. It's not...

True, and it's not like the commander doesn't ask questions. I make sure the commander doesn't just go on a limb here, mind you. Plus, this mission could be a way for the commanding officer to fully test the mind of the MC in on itself. I mean, it's not fully in the wrong for the commanding...

So as I work out the kinks in my story, I came up with a scenario that I want some second opinions on. Believability is something I know most people complain about these days, so I'm trying to apply some common sense here. So here is the scenario, I have a commanding officer who is leading his...

So says every right ring nutcase I see on the matter. You sure as heck sound like one of those alt right nutjobs so far.

If this was true Chauvin would not have been convicted of second degree murder or the death would have been ruled a manslaughter at best.

Just because you have oxygen in the blood doesn't mean that death from asphyxiation is impossible. Also, even if the autopsy did reveal drugs in his system it's the amount of drugs that would still be in question as I am aware that he had fentanyl in his system but most reports I have studied...

Funny as one can say you are brainwashed by right ring racist media so... Again even if he did resist we still have someone's knee on someone's neck resulting in someone's death. I still say that Derek Chauvin should have backed off at some point, just put the man back into the car and use oh...

Yes, but a lot of good stories are mostly social commentary, even if they are not as blatant as others. You would not think of the movie Aliens for example being a social commentary about the Vietnam War but scratch under its carapace, and it's right there. Most of my beliefs are my own, this...

No, he was murdered, plain and simple. The only crime he committed was having a counterfeit bill, could have happened to anyone (heck I once had a counterfeit bill once, didn't make me a criminal or counterfeiter or a drug smuggler). Even if he had drugs in his system, he still had outside...

So here is the scoop, I am totally redoing my characters backstories and well I want to solve a problem I have. You see, I originally had my characters as police officers, a simple approach but one that would account for why they would become superheroes later on. I was originally inspired by my...

In modern story writing I am seeing this huge trend in younger writers who do everything they can to avoid tropes. Trope avoidance is an issue that can drive one mad too and leave stories feeling static or unsatisfactory. This is because for many tropes = clichés, and it's rather sad when it...

You know America is known for foods that we took from other nations and made them our own, the Pizza, the Hamburger. But I don't see many people talk about the good ol Yankee Pot roast. I make mine with an eye roast, two containers of beef broth and or beef stock, a sweet onion, baby carrots and...

Well technically you can have as many side characters as you want, but it does have the issue of having too many characters to keep track of. I say either narrow things down or if you must have side characters when you add them in make sure their roles make sense. Sure having lots of characters...

It's better for a serialized format then it is for a per chapter story format. Plus a very good cliffhanger can leave the audience wanting more and seeing where the story goes next. Yes bad cliffhangers happen, I won't deny it, but that doesn't mean they should be avoided altogether. As a fan of...

The one in Google Docs can be a bit obtuse as it is incredibly basic and while it has good sense of tense it does have major quirks in its grammar checks that you can't alter or change. I'm not saying that these tools are a replacement of knowing proper grammar of course. But then again the...

Okay so as I may have mentioned here, I am autistic and grew up with a learning disability. Now I am mostly high functioning, but it does have its effect on my writing and how I do things. I have always had an odd relationship with grammar and punctuation but because writing is my only creative...

Well is what is "fluff" to you? Thing is the term fluff is very subjective as what one person sees as fluff is wholesome to another, this is always the issue I see in romance movies (as romance novels don't interest me at all but I do like a few Rom-com's) And yes it is a very slippery slope as...