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  1. ThisAdamGuy

    Should scary stories have explanations?

    We already have an explanation: Hideo Kojima is on all of the drugs.
  2. ThisAdamGuy

    Should scary stories have explanations?

    Stephen King was once quoted saying "Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations. They’re antithetical to the poetry of fear." Do you agree? The most famous thing HP Lovecraft probably ever said was that fear is the strongest emotion, and the strongest...
  3. ThisAdamGuy

    Humor Writing the trench warfare of writing.

    They can work just fine if you do them right. Here's a example from one of my books:
  4. ThisAdamGuy

    Humor Writing the trench warfare of writing.

    What stands out the most to me is that your prose is kind of rambly, which stretches your jokes out. Brevity is the soul of wit. Every word you put between the setup and the punchline kills the joke a little more. Its not impossible to make long jokes work, but it's very difficult. You can't...
  5. ThisAdamGuy

    Writing Convince me emojis is a bad idea

    It's bad because your words (or pictures, in the case of manga) should be enough to get your characters' emotions across. If your readers need emojis to know what your characters are feeling, you've failed as a writer and/or artist. And if people can tell what they're feeling without the emojis...
  6. ThisAdamGuy

    What would you write?

    "You shouldn't have done that."
  7. ThisAdamGuy

    You MUST read my life-changing, super enlightened, euphoria-inducing stories, fr, fr! No cap!

    This reminds me of something that happened about once a week over on RR. "HEY FANTA BROS AND FANTA SISTAS! YOU NEED TO READ MY TOTALLY AWESOME STORY CALLED ETERNAL MONSTER SLAYER (or something like that, I forget what it was called) WHICH WAS WRITTEN WITH A PATENTED AI STYLE AND IS THE BEST...
  8. ThisAdamGuy

    Is it better to have no cover art or AI cover art?

    In my experience, the people who complain about AI covers usually do so because they're pissed that you didn't commission them, specifically, to draw it for you. It's less about artistic integrity or whatever, and more about the money that isn't going into their pockets. That being said, if...
  9. ThisAdamGuy

    Skinwalkers: A Dark Shapeshifting Fantasy

    Fey is a skinwalker disguised as a human. Zave is a human who owns a dog named Clueless. Clueless is a skinwalker too, but doesn't know it. When the bad guys show up, Fey activates Clueless' powers so she can actually become a skinwalker.
  10. ThisAdamGuy

    Skinwalkers: A Dark Shapeshifting Fantasy

    We are ONE WEEK AWAY from Skinwalkers' Scribble Hub debut!
  11. ThisAdamGuy

    Anyone excited for the Oblivion remake?

    Fish Lips giveth. Fish Lips taketh away.
  12. ThisAdamGuy

    Anyone excited for the Oblivion remake?

    Everyone, meet Fish Lips.
  13. ThisAdamGuy

    Anyone excited for the Oblivion remake?

    Update: they released it!
  14. ThisAdamGuy

    Anyone excited for the Oblivion remake?

    In case anyone hasn't heard, a remake of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is (probably) coming out tomorrow. For some reason, Bethesda decided to shadow drop it, and the only information we've had until today is from unofficial leaks. They finally came out and said there's going to be an...
  15. ThisAdamGuy

    Story Feedback

    Have you ever heard the saying "show, don't tell"? Because your writing is 100% tell, 0% show.
  16. ThisAdamGuy

    Question for writers?

    I used Wix for my site. I had the premium plan that let me use my own domain name until they jacked the price up last year. Now I use the free version, which is basically the same but I have to use the generic site address. It's also really easy to use, as evidenced by the fact that a caveman...
  17. ThisAdamGuy

    Am I doing text boxes right?

    [THIS POST HAS BEEN CONSUMED BY THE VOID]
  18. ThisAdamGuy

    A bit of advice

    This is a piece of advice I've wanted to give to more than a few people over the past couple weeks. I won't name names. If I'm talking to you, hopefully you'll know it. We're all supposed to be writers here. That means we think that we're skilled enough at writing that other people will want to...
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