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The Wizard lowers his hand, dark purple energy swirling between his fingertips slowly fading away into nothingness as he balls his fist at his side. How could he have been so certain, so researched, and so talented, and yet so very blind? A question he probably should've pondered before now...

You know magic the gathering? One of the planes called Innistrad has a city called Thraben, which has come under attack from no less than 3 apocalypse scenarios: A an eldritch apocalypse, a vampire/werewolf apocalypse, and a multi-dimensional body-horror robot apocalypse. It's still standing...

Omniscience! Let's talk about it. So you want to write a protagonist with an interesting power that you haven't seen done before? Fantastic! Create! The creative rewards for your success will surely make you a better writer! Now the only things you need to do are: Pick a stance on whether or...

Nah 'yesyesyes' is just traditional Skaven for 'kill it with everything you have' and as such is perfectly valid

That's why I like D&D casting, because while 1/100ish people can use magic, only 1/10,000,000 (the wizards specifically) will ever be capable of innovating or even understanding it, but they'll understand it on the same level that current scientists understand electricity compared to the average...

Once. In a fic that will never see the sun, I wrote a death scene from a character's own perspective that was so brutal and tragic up until the point that the character was actually supposed to die that I had to stop and cry for a bit before having a little healthy self-reflection on death...

I agree completely. But if everyone, or at least a significant portion of people, can use that fireball, it'd be unjustifiable to assume that no one has tried to make or been successful at making a better firing pin.

Ah, I didn't mean for this to come off the way it clearly has. I'll clarify. Let's say you are miraculously isekai'd into a world with magic that requires chanting 1-2 sentences before you can cast a spell. We can make up and agree on literally any reason why chanting is required, it doesn't...

We thought electricity was spiritual. Supernatural. Something the gods cast down from the clouds to smite things. Then we developed science to understand electricity, and it rapidly went from being a supernatural thing gods did to being the thing we replaced torches with. Now we know that it...

Counterpoint, any setting wherein magic users aren't actively trying to chant as little as possible or remove chanting all together I'm automatically forced to assume is an idiot plot. It's the equivalent to if people in the real world made gunpowder but not guns, it's that abundantly...

If it's any sort of melee: Melee is brutal and messy, but most importantly, it's fast. Like, a medieval swordfight probably isn't lasting more than ten seconds if the combatants are actually trying to kill eachother, and it's highly unlikely that both will survive, and even less likely that...

My solution to this problem is always a mirror. My target audience is always me; whether that's middle school me, high-school me, one-year-ago-me, or now me, as long as I'm writing something that I would have read or enjoyed at some point in my life then at least one standard deviation of...

someone else answered the same way I would have, but there is something I'd like to add in furtherance of that response: Any attempt at saying 'This type of creative exploration is bad because I think it is, thoughts?', no matter how you say it, such as the way you have with this post, is...

3 2 is just a poly relationship the author is lying about, but 3 is a proper harem.

So you know how most TTRPGs have random event tables that you roll a d100 for? Put everything you need to get done for your story on that random event table, and when you sit down to write, roll the die and write whatever you rolled on the table. It probably won't be good in terms of planning...

It means that if a reasonable audience could find your depiction equivalent or adjacent to endorsement of the act, you aren't supposed to write it. This is easily circumventable by having 2 lines of inner monologue explaining that the character knows it's bad, OR by having some degree of mind...

Ignore tensing. it doesn't matter. Write the way you would speak if you were telling a story to your child or to an audience from a stage, it will always read more naturally and fluidly than any attempt to rigidly maintain tensing.

Hard magic system that has rules that are very specifically not a mystery to the characters in the story. We knew about so much of physics before we ever had the tech to observe it for ourselves purely because of math and theory, why wouldn't magic be like any other science in this regard?

I would say that I'm about to die. But my primary complaint was that despite appearances, no character, no matter how minor, had suffered any form of negative consequences period. I'm probably safe.