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  1. laccoff_mawning

    How do you control an overpowered character so they don't break the story?

    Make them want to hide their powers for various reasons. Give them a problem that they can't solve with power nor intellect, like a woman's fickle mind and fragile emotional state.
  2. laccoff_mawning

    The grave matter that is related to people with left-handedness

    I write with my right hand because I was taught to write with my right hand, but I'm left handed in most other things. I find that my right hand is more coordinated than my left hand, but if I need to use my entire arm then my left arm feels more natural to use. So if I play a racket sport I...
  3. laccoff_mawning

    I'm tired of OP heros

    I very much like OP characters. The problem is, if you truly want to make a story with an OP character, you can't write it in the same way a traditional action story might take. If the MC is truly OP then your MC never truly fights; he/she only performs one-sided beat downs. If there's an actual...
  4. laccoff_mawning

    How can I transmit that I am talking to the reader instead of narrating the story?

    I find this to be a confusing question. Narrating a story is talking to the reader. If not, who do you think you are narrating the story to? quotation marks "" or '' are used when a fictional character is speaking. Dashes and parenthesis are a lot rarer in novels. A dash is like a comma, but...
  5. laccoff_mawning

    Recommendations Searching for Stories Where OP MCs Stay Undercover (...like To Be a Power in the Shadows/The Eminence in Shadow)

    disasterous life of Saiki K. Daily life of the immortal King. Both of them are more SoL rather than action, but still very good comedy in both. edit: saiki K isn't a novel, and DLotIK's novel format has a very wide range of quality to it. It can be boring for 100s of chapters in a row, but I...
  6. laccoff_mawning

    Need a bit of help with my cover.

    You did that in only two hours? That's cool! What software did you use? As others have said, the subject matter in the picture doesn't give a good depiction of what the story is about. The contrast between the eye for the O and everything else makes me guess this is meant to be a horror story...
  7. laccoff_mawning

    How are YOU going to fix the genre you hate or dislike?

    Thank you for the logical argument. I see that your opinion is backed by none other than the most ironclad logical principles, with absolutely no emotional involvement whatsoever. Often, whether the MC reciprocates or not is unclear until near the end of the book. So we still have the same...
  8. laccoff_mawning

    What makes your fiction worth reading at least once in a lifetime?

    It's... at least sometimes funny? That's about all it's got going for it.
  9. laccoff_mawning

    How are YOU going to fix the genre you hate or dislike?

    As a harem hater, I must strongly disagree. If a story is harem for everything but the last few chapters, in which the MC chooses a single lover, then 99% of that story's chapters are of the harem genre. If 99% of the story is a harem, then the story is a harem. The ending has little relevance...
  10. laccoff_mawning

    Sonic Boom is pure comedic genius. The way they did the comedy is so bold, you can even see it...

    Sonic Boom is pure comedic genius. The way they did the comedy is so bold, you can even see it in the intro.
  11. laccoff_mawning

    Trolley problem. Just that.

    A question that haunts my soul. I've lost many a friend to trolleys knocking on my door.
  12. laccoff_mawning

    Taco, Hotdog, or Both?

    :sick:
  13. laccoff_mawning

    Trolley problem. Just that.

    I would disagree. It's a problem posed to challenge moral views. Yes, it doesn't ask about how we can save the five. No, it doesn't want to bully you into becoming a murderer. It simply wants an answer. An answer that most people are reluctant to give and will try and sidestep around. It wants...
  14. laccoff_mawning

    Give me your honest opinion on my lil 4 chap story

    If by "description" you mean "signature", I'm getting 404 page not found.
  15. laccoff_mawning

    why?

    why?
  16. laccoff_mawning

    I'd like some second opinions.

    No. I google searched some reference images of the sunset. Lower down clouds near the sun are tinged orangey-yellow by it's colour, while the higher up ones are greyish-purple.
  17. laccoff_mawning

    I'd like some second opinions.

    This is the shrunken down one I see when browsing scribblehub. It's 100 x 140 in size, for anyone interested. You can definitely see the text become blurred at this size. One of the things I might try then is to jiggle some stuff around a bit and put the MC behind one of the buildings, for the...
  18. laccoff_mawning

    I'd like some second opinions.

    This is correct. This is what I'm going for. The supporting character you mention is actually the main character. The reason why he isn't in the center of the picture is I thought the current composition including him on the side was funnier. So the guy in the center is an enthusiastic side...
  19. laccoff_mawning

    I'd like some second opinions.

    My newbie self decided to boot up piskel (very high tech, I know.) and create this little piece. It's now getting to the point where I think it looks like it could be a finished product. So I'd like a few more pairs of eyes to help form my opinion on what I should do before uploading it as my...
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