I don’t know that I agree that the obvious solution is to remove the ridiculousness since, like you said, that’s kind of the entire…[Read more]

@imwritehere1920 My week’s been pretty stressful as I’m preparing for Good Friday and Easter stuff for my church’s audio/video team while…[Read more]

(I love all those…[Read more]

I’m Taylor. I’ve previously been either really active on the forums or gone for long stretches of time.

For the past year or so, I’ve been working in a jam kitchen that daily saps my will to live (and have been working with a very toxic editing client I should have broken ties with a long time ago, and which I’ve finally done), so…[Read more]

I’m not talking about literal man vs nature in the sense of being stuck on a mountain with a bear trying to eat you. I was trying to suggest you look at the structure and thematic implications of man vs nature and man vs God.

Man vs nature tends to involve a human trying to prove he’s worthy to exist in a brutal,…[Read more]

First, I just realized I have no idea what the Dystopian spread of genres has looked like over the past decade. I grew out of the YA-focused part of the genre a couple years after the Hunger Games series ended.

Looking through Amazon tells me it probably hasn’t changed terribly much, though.

So, what I’m wanting is fresh plot ide…

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What are you trying to do that Inkarnate isn’t working for?

Thank you to @this-is-not-an-alien for beta reading!

This ended up as my final blurb:

Planet Dirt: Remnant of an exile world, ground down by governmental and megacorp warring.

The Accident a generation ago erased what its inhabitants had not…

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I have the same problem =P I was writing an article with a very particular word count the other day, and I eventually realized I had to cut my favorite paragraph, despite it being snappy and punchy, because it did little more than introduce a concept the audience was already familiar with.

Regarding Medium, I’m very new and don’t have…[Read more]

Thank you! I spent New Year’s Eve with a splitting headache, but the next day was pretty nice. I hope the new year is treating you well too :-}

@this-is-not-an-alien

Good job defeating recaptcha, lol. Glad you liked the article! Hopefully if you felt attacked that means it sparked a writing idea =P

I recently got a job writing articles about anime, and this is my first try applying the training…[Read more]

Hey, thanks for reaching out on here.

What you’re describing between your two posts here might be a health issue, so I strongly suggest talking to a doctor about your frustrations with these thoughts, if you can. You’re describing a couple big symptoms of ADHD, though that of course by no means says that you definitely have ADHD.…[Read more]

I really like the article by @r-m-archer , and it brought to mind that there is a distinction between antagonists opposing the protagonist and outright villains. I’m going to talk about villains, but I’m assuming they’re also antagonists.

Lucifer from DC comics, specifically Sandman by Neil Gaiman and Hellb…[Read more]

I think there are a couple reasons.

Fantasy (at least in constructed world) allows you to go crazy in your worldbuilding. You don’t even need to assume physics work the same way as in our world, if you don’t want to! You can create magic systems and fantastical races without worrying about the…[Read more]

Re cereal as soup: Depending on your definition, a soup may need to be boiled or simmered, even if it’s served cold. However, chilled cucumber soup is a major exception that no one would reject calling soup. In many cuisines, soup relies on the concept of broth…[Read more]

@obrian-of-the-surface-world I think that example is a good one to demonstrate how this topic has reached the end of its usefulness–I absolutely think watching…[Read more]

R rated does not mean scary or wicked, it means that one is imbuing themselves with explicit violence, sexual language, or sexual content.

Everyone’s going to mean slightly different things regarding their definition of this, especially when talking about books rather than films, since…[Read more]

“It does not explicitly describe strong language, sexual assault, fornication, nakedness, or even murder.”

It actually does describe R-rated things in some detail, including several of these. I’m not going to reference them for obvious reasons, but have you actually read all the Old Testament?

@daeus-lamb Sorry you had to work and miss the patron meeting! @josiah suggested I tag you so you can share your thoughts on the essay.

“I left out a ton of info above … There’s just a pot happening”

Yeah, that’s fair. I doubt I have an accurate idea of what your story is just based on what you’ve shared.

Assuming I’m in the right ballpark with your story as a thriller, you’re probably going to need an individual human v…[Read more]

Hi Joshua! Thanks for sharing your worldbuilding. As you said, you’ve clearly put a lot of thought into this. I definitely see the Brando Sando influence. I have a couple reactions to your description:

• The planet has two creators, but one of them was secretly God? Were there a race of superhumans/angels/demigods/whatever, and two…

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I got…[Read more]

I don’t know what email address you were sending to, but my main address is itaylorclogston at gmail. I’ve not received anything from you at that address. Sorry for the confusion! I’ll send you a PDF since that sounds like it’ll work best.

it has an energetic three-part voice-shift

I’ve never heard of that before! Can you explain what that is?

*I looked you up to see (also YES IT’S THAT ONE I READ THE FIRST PAGE BEFORE MY INTERNET DIED AND I GOTTA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!!!! I wanna know more about that convict’s past and how he got into that situation and his internal conflict with his…

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I can’t say that praying has helped me through it. Even though I know rationally that this criticism’s…[Read more]

He has created a dark and twisted strand in the cable of human existence, one that cannot withstand my caress without breaking and becoming no longer a man. You saw it just now. It saddens me.

Two men, condemned.

The pilot, betrayed by his AI god.

The convict,…[Read more]

First and foremost, spy fiction is a genre. You should look into that.

The rest of your description doesn’t sound like historical fiction to me. HisFic needs to interact with the real world in some way. If the only possible way a reader could tell the story took place in an alternate version…[Read more]

@seekjustice Sorry for the delay. I think Cinderella’s weakness was the classy Shakespearian aspect of it. It just didn’t catch the general public’s interest in the same way that The Jungle Book did the next year with its cast of Hollywood…[Read more]

I’ll definitely take you up on that offer. I’d be happy to beta for your project in return. You can send that along with whatever beta questions you have to itaylorclogston…[Read more]

On January 9, 2020, the YouTube channel Nerdstalgic released a video called The Problem With Disney’s Movies In One Word.

“You might have noticed some…

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I’m up to 7681 words, which is really not great considering that puts me at about 12 WPM. As this is a rewrite of something I rapidly drafted, I’m spending most of my time researching and worldbuilding. Today I wrote a…[Read more]

I commit to pray regularly and responsibly about my writing over the next four weeks, hopefully to build a better habit than my current one.

Come on man. xD The audience and what they think don’t matter, God is our ultimate audience, and what He thinks is what matters.

This is going to be the point after which I have to bow out. To say God has a problem with the English word “magic,” a word which necessarily does not exist in a book which was not written in English, s…[Read more]