Recent content by CharlesEBrown

Just have a small, sharp jagged object nearby. Broken glass, exposed metal, chair with crack in it. With her experience at this, she spots it right away and uses it to weaken the ropes enough to get out.

If you provided proof you were the author when you uploaded here OR if this is the first place you uploaded to, you only have to worry if it's in different languages on different sites (then you may have to provide or re-provide proof if someone accuses it of being a translation).

I'm under contract to the more polite, less evil, less competent cousin of WebNovel, PocketFM. You're not missing much unless you live in the country where they are headquartered and can output thousands of words per writing session.

For me, pure slice of life really only works in short stories or episodic fiction (like television shows or anime/manga, and even there I prefer to have something not "real" thrown in; one of my favorite manga series is Ah My Goddess! which is pretty much mundane life ... except for the Goddess...

That style is an artifact of the translation more than a style choice as far as I can tell - it is the natural way for Japanese writing to flow, but it doesn't always feel "right" to native English readers.

Not me - I run my mouse over it to see if there's a tooltip to tell me what kind of link it might be first... :biggrin_s:

As an aside, I left off the "punchline" - before I submitted it to the magazine, it won a "cash" (well, college bookstore credit) in a contest at college; I was one of only two Freshmen to win it and the other one, she took third place in all three categories.

H. P. Lovecraft did that a bit. O. Henry as well, I think (at least in the one or two of his stories I read, which were supposedly typical, like, IIRC Gift Of the Magi). Ramsey Campbell is pretty good with that, too.

Huh. I once submitted a short story to Amazing Stories (the 80s revival not the original; I learned to read about a year after that one folded IIRC!) and the editor who rejected it asked: "But what happens next? Does the narrator survive?" Uhm... it was a horror story, the ending was left...

I've never heard anything good about college level creative writing classes - community learning center ones? Yep. High School and Middle School ones? Absolutely - one of my better experiences in ... either seventh or eighth grade, don't remember which now. But college? No, those are...

From what I gather, it won't work - it will ignore the new post in calculating new releases - just make the next one on schedule and you'll be fine though.

If you wish to be an artist of any stripe, you should study that artform any way you can, to learn what has been done before, what hasn't, and to figure out if you wish to emulate one or more of the Masters or find your own path.

Trigger Warnings trigger me so never see use. The rest I use when I feel it is appropriate.

You could always take the extreme route used in The Sandman - each of the Endless has their own font that only they speak in...

Firefly had at least one scene like this. I'm drawing a blank beyond that, but I know I've seen a scene like this played out dozens of times, usually for comedy. The Princess Bride may have some good moments to draw from. As can some old Laurel and Hardy movies (Another fine mess you've...