Posts by M. A. Golding
One way to depict a brilliant military mind is to find a successful battle or campaign in history which starts from similar conditions to the type of starting conditions you want at the start of th...
You should read George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman (1969) and it's sequels, in which the "memoirs" of the fictional schoolboy bully from Tom Brown's schooldays by Thomas Hughes (1857) tell of his ...
In 1, maybe Charlie says: "How did you find me!" I didn't give you any clues!" And Bob says: "You thought you didn't. With enough internet skill, you can track any post to it's sender." In 2, ...
You could have scenes with a family next door or in the next apartment/flat that just moved in from the USA or Canada. Possibly the protagonist could often have to stop and mentally translate thei...
IMHO no it wouldn't be homophobic. Here is a sort of reductio ad absurdum example. Imagine a story set in a Middle Eastern city in the 13th century (1201-1300) with a population manly Sunni Musli...