Search results

Experience without imagination is a textbook- dry, uninspiring. It might be educational. It might be useful. But unless it has something you need, or are otherwise interested in, you are not going to just randomly pick it up. Imagination without experience is fantasy. The issue with...

Batshit crazy are the most fun to write. But placing them in a semi-serious setting is hard. Unless you want a Heath Ledger Joker homage. As much fun as it would be to add one in, my MC would try to shoot them within a minute-she has no chill. This.

I am still working on this. I agree with Envy-chan though that it is a important aspect of being a good writer. It's also my weakest, or part of, as dialog is were I struggle. I would like to get to the point where my characters can be identified by how they talk. But it is a balancing act...

Strength: Stubbornness. Weakness: Dialogue. It always feels stilted to me.

Hell no. Those characters are boring. This was why I always hated superman growing up. They are boring. Give them a flaw. If they have an overpowering strength, give them a weakness. And not just an 'allergic to some glowing rock' unless there is a reason for alot of that rock to be floating...

Ease of publishing/posting=higher numbers of works available. But the number of 'quality' pieces (however you define that) is still only a small segment. But if before it was 1 in 100, and now it's 10 in 1000, your percentage is still the same, you may just have to search more.

I just tried to find the exact comment but couldn't, because there were so many others who had commented since, with many complaining the author had too much info...... proof that you are never going to make all the readers happy.....

Broad strokes unless details are required for clarity. I don't want to read a grocery list unless it's relevant to the story(if the character is a chef, it makes sense). One of the stories on here starts when the MC is 16, and one of the commenters was getting pissy that the author wasn't...

Yes? There aren't many spells. But what makes it tricky is that for effects the caster is having to maintain and combine multiple spells. For example a fireball- unless you are just going to drop it over the wall onto someone's head, you need to combine the heat generation spell with the density...

Not sure if you had seen this: https://www.amazon.com/report/infringement/signin?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=aaddcf1b-e7c8-483b-a430-2788f7c12aba

My hardest was getting over the 'high word count =better' that got beaten into me through school. Say what needs to be said, as clearly as you can. You are not Charles Dickens, you are not paid by the word.