Kale

I hope you don't mind me dropping in to answer part of this one, @JoeBookman, but I have a lot of friends who are marine biologists (though I prefer terrestrial ...

Pollen doesn't bother me, and I'm not allergic, but the things that do bother me are cigarette smoke (but not woodsmoke since I grew up around a lot of it) ...

*coughs whike surreptitiously slipping Squire @rosette some Training Knives *

Done with Lumi's. Need to finish this one:

Then sally forth, Squire @rosette, and slay Ten Green Beasts . Bring back their heads (or tails, or the least-icky bit of body you don't mind touching--a lock of hair ...

On a side note, kinda, one scenario that could naturally highlight him having asthma is him struggling with breathing in cold weather. It depends on the climate of your setting, ...

I think every girl goes through a horse-crazy phase at some point, and some girls never grow out of it. Girls being crazy about horses is a stereotype in and ...

Except for Kyll who, having been shut inside the soundproofed confines of the cookie-and-coffee cupboard, heard nothing of the goings on outside. Not the scream. Not the dramatic CLAP OF ...

Meanwhile, in the ashes of @Sheytato's potato museum, a solitary Kyll munched on some well-roasted tubers and watched the murder train roll on by. It had been a while since ...

I think the journal entries approach works, but something you could potentially try is first person present tense, so that way you get the closeness of first person with the ...

I don't use templates or questionnaires myself, so sadly, I don't have any to recommend. Some things I do consider for my own worldbuilding are things like climate, number of ...

Have you tried focusing on just getting words out, regardless of quality, and leaving the editing for a later draft. I used to run into blocks all the time because ...

A long, long time ago in a forum long since dead, a Kyll encountered a link after suffering burnout from another writing-oriented site. Several layout changes and much lurking later, ...

Cool. I'm rounding the pot up to an evenly-divisible 20k so you should all be receiving 5k points apiece. Congratulations and thanks for participating!

We judges are discussing a change to the prizes since there were only four entries, and we feel it wouldn't be fair for one person to not win anything when ...