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There are too many in that scene to copy and too many good ones to pick and choose.

He heals VEEERRRRY slowly in cases like that. Once got caught in a spell detonation that laid him up for two months. He doesn't have any special healing ability, but if it can be recovered from, it will... at about half the rate a normal person would take.

Pretty much the same here. Though it would depend on the specific story, in most cases, I'd prefer to have unknowns, at least as the major characters. Some support characters could be fun as "names" - the last time I specifically cast a character as an actor, was the time-traveling mentor for...

I thought Dave Allen was Canadian - at least his show was on the CBC and his accent seemed to come and go and even vary, depending on the skit. Recall an episode where he did a bunch of "mailman" skits. Mailman delivering weird stuff, or encountering weird things ... or being drawn into a...

The curse is that until the three artifacts he created that, together so offended the gods, are once again brought together and destroyed by someone who understands that this act will end his punishment, he cannot die, no matter what happens to him. He does not heal any faster than another...

What is "art" though? Writing is AN art, but is all writing art? And how much of art is a science? I suppose a work of fiction becomes "art" when people discuss it outside of itself - when something of the story remains behind after reading.

Well... I have one character who can't ... and kind of wants to... but it was a curse...

Edmund Rostand did a brilliant scene of these in the play Cyrano de Bergerac (which I was surprised to learn was based on a real guy - the big nose was only slightly exaggerated, and some mythical traits were added to him - but he also was a creator of something approaching science fiction...

Heh... I have plans to kill off an MC... And it's taking longer than I anticipated (but really can't happen until his kids are born and he hasn't even gotten married yet... and has to attend a funeral before THAT can happen...). And that story has already murdered a major support character and...

I would have to go back and find some of my notes from old role-playing games to find examples (but I think that background taught me how to avoid introducing such characters in fiction... so far...) - there, a lot of ideas got tossed out and only the ones that "worked" wound up being used.

Have you ever seen the anime "Vampire Hunter D"? That's kind of what you're describing (though in a more gonzo, anime, anything goes within the setting way).

It depends on the story. But then, say, Digital Cowboy Dane takes place in a virtual world - days and months have happened for the MC where only weeks passed in the real world. I could figure out how many days it's been for Dane (though there was that week he spent in space where he was...

Why not? I've come close... Especially in one of the two I have on Pocket FM...

...to the authorities.

Yes, but my aim is certifiably terrible.

Ah - maybe that was the way they stated it in the laughable adaptation of Earthsea the Sci Fi channel did before it became SyFy. The one where the only real reason to watch was Kristen Kreuk. They even got the lead wrong, since he was about as Caucasian as you could get, which caused LeGuinn...

Show a way to code this without outright banning it and I'll support your suggestion. But I don't think this is an easy thing - more effective would be to issue a warning each time a chapter is below a certain size, and have the warnings expire after seven or ten days. Collect three or more...

Recall hearing a few (some of which I've shamelessly stolen) over the years. A variation of the above, used to describe a very good-looking but not very bright woman: "She has an empty upstairs apartment, but man what a staircase." One of the stranger ones I've heard: "I don't have a mother -...

Actually, this line is not 100% correct, especially when it comes to comic books. Yes, the fictional universes have rules ("character" and "story" bibles even - the one for Batman is allegedly very long and includes a line something like: "Batman is the character; Bruce Wayne is one mask he...

Eh, I don't see any reason to not allow this. I mean, if the late Peter A. David could pull off a chapter that was nothing more than a chapter title and: "It seemed the polite thing to do at the time." in his novel Howling Mad, I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed occasionally. Maybe give a...