Posts by Ryan_L
On top of Amadeus's idea, I would investigate whether you could achieve what you want with some kind of trust, probably a special needs trust. You should seek local legal advice if this is somethi...
On the contrary, I think readers are more likely to lose interest if the work isn't dark enough. Barring young children, no one wants to read a book in which the heroes easily accomplish all their...
I think it's unusual that there would be no religion post-apocalypse. Surely some people would become more religious given massive social upheaval. I think it's fine if your main characters aren'...
Any story that has an open-ended ending essentially does this. Star Wars is a great example. At the end of the first movie, most of the personal plotpoints are fairly well wrapped up, but some ar...
Study how real cultures have done similar things. Consider how ritualistic warfare worked in many tribal societies in the real world. Many tribal cultures and even a few urban cultures all over t...
Research what modern fighting is actually like. Don't pay too much attention to the details, those can be googled easily enough whenever you need to double-check something. What you should be pay...
