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So... not sure why, but the site won't let me post pictures, emoji's, change bold/italics, ect. They all are greyed out and unclickable... I have tried restarting my device and opening/closing scribblehub.

Think this was the inspiration for Migi from Parasyte? It's from a movie that came out in 1989 called 'Leviathan'. Kindof a mashup of Alien meets The Thing, meets The Abyss.

How thoroughly do you purge your stories of words and/or concepts that wouldn't exist in either a fantasy/alt history context? Some things are fairly easy replacements, like instead of describing someone as 'christ-like', use 'godlike' or 'messiah' and it becomes less tied to a specific...

Is anyone here familiar with this outlining method? I hadn't heard of it until I saw it referenced in a reddit post yesterday. It breaks down the story outline into fifteen 'beats' that span the three acts. Each 'beat' is a plot point meant to address/accomplish a certain thing in the story. It...

....You're going to end up somewhere else. -Yogi Berra. Wrote the ending of my story (or at least Book 1), and realized that this Yogi-ism is as true for writing as anything else. Now, I need to create and add in an new character to give my main character a the skills to have snowballs chance...

...She was right.

For those of you who have done your own fantasy worlds for your stories, how involved and elaborate is your mythos? Do you have a creation myth for how your world and races developed? I decided to create one for the story I am starting to outline and flesh out. I think it helps me set the tone...

Most of my writing is short stories- I go in with a simple idea and that's it. Works okay most of the time. But for longer stories I struggle to create a coherent flow as I have an idea, and a few scenes that I want/need to occur, but the rest is badly connected with awful flow that I spend as...

Most of my book is from the view of the main character. But I do have sections where I flip to another characters viewpoint. How should I break these out chapter wise? They are smaller portions, always under 1500 words, some much slimmer. Do I give them their own chapters or do I insert them as...

Like the title says. Do you prefer the stories you write(or read) to have open endings or everything wrapped up. What makes a bad ending for you?

Because Ship Teaser asked for it....

I was curious what the average age of the writers on the forum is.