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Sounds interesting, put me on your list.

Hey Jai, I know you said it's closed, but I feel I owe you my $0.02 Positive discrimination has already come up, but I have never met an aboriginal person ...

Another way, (my way), of looking at it is that when you write about an anti-hero you're asking "what makes a hero a hero?" What can you strip away from ...

I guess this one really depends on your writing style. Do you feel that it makes your writing heavy handed? It could certainly become an issue in scenes where there ...

Gryph, First......even forewarned by the disclaimer I was totally sucked in by that link for hours, the site is amazing. Second, thezombiehunters is awesome. Finally, cheers for the insights. The ...

So yes I've a character who's rather jaded. He's a swashbuckler/circus-freak/diplomat who's been on the receiving end of some matters of hostorical expedience. Feeling the pawn, he feels the very ...

There's a group for writing characters of the opposite gender. Don't let the name scare you off: Gender Benders :P You'll get some good contrast for writing from the male/female ...

Stick it in one that has a lower turnover, that way people will get more of a chance to read it :P. Fantasy, for example, has one of the bigger ...

Sounds like drugs Kyte :P. Crazy Hallucinogenic drugs. Oh and Miles, that still isn't turning a man into a frog. I maintain that if you're going to have energy correlate ...

A decent anti-hero will always show into sharp relief a flaw, not in himself, but in the world around him. "Well, I guess the schooling system, parents and eurasian butlers ...

Wow, that seems quite grand indeed. I've got to say though, that the idea of a peace taking hundreds of thousands of years to form....time doesn't need to scale up ...

Myles, you realise this is the system of magic used in The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett? How about all the things people do with magic that they couldn't ...

Where did he get his power from? What do others think of him and why? (as a magician not as a character) Magic from nature, magic from song, magic from ...

Darn. There goes my plan of hooking beautiful supermodels with my literary talent.

I write a fair bit of time travel into my main project at the moment, so I'm no stranger to plot holes (gaping, universe consuming plot holes). Personally I find ...