Recent content by CharlesEBrown

I have two books signed by the actors who played main characters in them (Got Majel Barrett to sign my copy of Peter David's Q-In Law, a book that includes perhaps the most chilling line ever written - even more so when you realize Lwaxana Troi said it: "Relax dear, mommy's omnipotent."; and got...

Possibly. The Marquis's speech reminded me of the old "Deathstroke" module for the Champions role playing game. The villains hijack national television, prove they had a device that can cause any nuclear reactor to go critical, and then end their announcement with: "America, which would you...

Speaking as a writer, for both book and chapters, as long as they NEED to be to feel right. Speaking as a reader, chapters should be anywhere between 1200 and 3000 words, inclusive, and the book should have 70-100 chapters, or maybe a few more.

It has a paid version but works like Google Translate with nag screens for free: Old English Translator | Free AI Historical English

Actually found an app to translate between Modern and Old English... Knew it was different but not exactly HOW different until I played around for a few minutes...

Define "end"... probably haven't reached one yet... Well, except for the one I wrote when I was in my early 20s.

Ic wolde ondrædan þæt ic write an langsum auld Englisc gesceaft...

Add in surgically enforced gender-bender and that seems like the direction Netflix's "Back Street Girls" anime was heading in (the potential "femdoms" were male yakuza who screwed up and were turned into "idols" by their boss...).

Original comic book Thanos was a super-powered intergalactic gangster (with a helicopter). First (and, IMO best) retcon Thanos had him as the leader of a nihilistic cult (The Black Order), that he founded to carry out his goal. His goal was this: as a teenager he believed he had seen Death...

You'd have to ask my readers who is most memorable. Most fun is a different story... and that would probably be a villain from an old RPG in my college days (his name was Mayhem, or Morris Emmerson, as he was subtly admitted several times, the non-canon son of Frank Oscar Randolph Charles...

Believe that falls under "Fair Use" - I make a lot of pop culture references in one story, and had to downplay a few for legal reasons on PocketFM (mostly with songs included - can give the title and a few words but not a full line unless I own the copyright). Quoting the jedi code or having the...

Varies depending on number of characters and type of conversation. One of my favorite minimalist examples was from Brust's The Phoenix Guard which was kind of a tribute/parody of The Three Musketeers cycle. He has three characters talking, but the dialogue is so short and simple it doesn't...

What's the title? Does it have any special characters like -, ', ( or ) in it? Those can mess up search results.

Well, they should have an initial reaction to each other reflecting how the relationship ended - if they left on good terms, they should be friendly, casual. If they left on bad terms, cool, maybe even adversarial. Since you mention the relationship was toxic, odds are one of them still views...

I'm always willing to get critical feedback. Even happy to get it if worded constructively or just politely. Now I admit, I may sometimes need to cool off for a minute before I can take it as constructive if its a long list or something, but usually I see the intent and can make corrections...