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Posts by mkbk‭

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Q&A How do you handle violence in a story with a female as the main villian?

Personally I don't see any problem as long as "get physical" involves a weapon/power of some sort. If Eve is a master hacker who steals Bob's parents' life savings and Bob tracks her down and punch...

posted 7y ago by mkbk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Using questions in dialog to facilitate exposition

Exposition as dialogue is a good way to keep the story moving forward, but only if it still makes sense as dialogue. You can't have two senators discussing the name of the state's capital, but you ...

posted 6y ago by mkbk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to prevent seeming like a Marty Stu-ish villain is cheating?

Thrawn was this (minus the physical fighting abilities) in Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire Star Wars trilogy. His gimmick was he could read species' and individuals' intentions and thought patter...

posted 6y ago by mkbk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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