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Re: Medieval period boats
I looked up ketch and the wikipedia page has a list of about 100 other sailing vessels, so I'll look through those too. Thanks, I thought no one was going ...
Feb 21, 2010 - Re: Words for Silver Feb 21, 2010
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Re: How to add humor to writing?
I think eccentric characters are essential to comedy. Mr. Bean, Blackadder, Baldric, Rimmer, Kryten, Cat, Vicky Pollard, Bubbles DeVere, Basil Fawlty, Shrek, the list goes on. They're all wacky. In ...
Feb 18, 2010 -
Re: Life Expectancy Calculator
When will the grim reaper come for you? My life expectancy is 90. To live longer I need to eat less red meat, see the doctor more often, and wear ...
Feb 15, 2010 -
Re: Random Youtube Videos
Here's some awesome B-Grade short films we made at my school a few years ago. The Epic Game (I'm in this one) :oops: Bully's Execution (My brother's in this one) ...
Feb 14, 2010 -
Re: How to make a book longer?!
Despite what others have said, the sweet spot in the publishing industry is around 80k words, give or take depending on genre and age group. I have no experience with ...
Feb 13, 2010 -
Re: Random Youtube Videos
Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing The woman's a genius. She won Ukraine's Got Talent with this.
Feb 10, 2010 -
Re: Romance tips!
14 guys and 1 girl hey. A pentadecahedron. Might be hard to make a book with that many characters work, but you never know.
Feb 10, 2010 -
Re: Romance tips!
How about a love pentagon. I say that and not a square because I've already got dibs on that. Hands off :D
Feb 9, 2010 -
Re: Descriptions of my main character---please read!
Personalities are quite a fluid thing, so I find lists of traits to be more a hindrance than a help, because they don't delve very deep. It's helpful to think ...
Feb 8, 2010 -
Re: Why do you write?
Sometimes writing is a terrible slog, sometimes it's really fun. In any case, I can't not write, or I feel like something's missing. I'd planned not to do any writing ...
Feb 4, 2010 -
Re: Writing an outline?
Here's a step by step guide to planning a novel.
Feb 4, 2010 -
Re: Kaze: Tale of Winds (Chapter 1)
This is just a quick one because I have to go back to work in 10 minutes. Only having read a little at the start, I feel that this fantasy ...
Feb 4, 2010 -
Re: Natural-Sounding Dialogue and Fantasy Accents
I wrote a series of short comedy stories with a Scottish character who's accent was so strong that it was a challenge just to figure out what he was saying. ...
Feb 3, 2010 -
Re: Book Idea!
I foresee a big problem. If the characters can see what's going to happen, what are you going to do for suspense? Maybe you could make the viewpoint character unable ...
Feb 2, 2010
