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Gringoamericano

Guero with a Sombrero

  • Research Re: LGBTQ+ Acceptance in Ancient Greek Times

    From what I heard, the Ancient Greek society was super misogynistic to the point where when there was a homosexual relationship, one half was regarded as pretty much a normal ...

    Feb 9, 2017
  • Writers Corner Re: Another attempt at world-building.

    I have been developing a world for a darkly-comedic webcomic and a series of short stories using what little I can remember from the Scott Pilgrim series as a jumping ...

    Nov 13, 2012
  • Writing Tips Re: A problem I have with characters

    This is something I've been noticing in the very small amount of stories I write. I don't really know how to describe it....I often come up with these plots, concepts, ...

    Oct 18, 2012
  • Writing Tips Re: Find Out What Grade Level You Write At

    My short stories usually end up within an 8th grade level, yet the essay I wrote for school was at a 13th grade level.

    Jul 15, 2012
  • Writing Tips Re: I have no idea what anything in my stories look like.

    This has been a problem for me since I first started writing. I cannot come up with what the people or places in my stories look like. I don't have ...

    Jul 3, 2012
  • Research Re: Common elements of films from the 1990s?

    I am working on a webcomic script that takes place in 1998, and satirizes anime and the 1990s while seeming like (the comic version of) a film from said decade. ...

    May 13, 2012
  • Writing Tips Re: Comic writing tips?

    Well, I've had a few ideas for dark/horror-comedies, and one of them would be made into a webcomic. While I know how to write prose and screenplays, I have no ...

    May 2, 2012
  • Writers Corner Re: A work of satire.

    I had an idea for a plot-based anime-esque comic that satirizes many issues within the modern world, and makes them very cartoonish. (An example would be the "Great wall of ...

    Mar 22, 2012
  • Writers Corner Re: How to work emotion into a narration?

    I enjoy writing dark comedies, and the protagonist is often a sarcastic kind of person. Even when they narrate, the tone is very snarky. But one common complaint I get ...

    Mar 4, 2012
  • Research Re: What are things you commonly find in Urban Fantasies?

    I'm trying to work on an comedy/action novel, and it's kind of a riff on the surge in urban fantasy novels such as Harry Potter and Twilight. What are some ...

    Feb 18, 2012
  • Writing Tips Re: My stories have no plot!

    I enjoy writing comedies. They often have concepts that I have never heard before (such as a comedy about wizard hunters, or a novel about starting a religion for money), ...

    Feb 11, 2012
  • Writing Tips Re: My other characters have very little personality.

    Well, I enjoy writing dialogue for my characters, especially the characters that fill the smart-alec or jerk archetypes. But once those archetypes are filled, all the other characters either have ...

    Feb 9, 2012


Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
— Mark Strand