hszmv‭

Another problem with this system is how the brain reading English doesn't require spelling to be correct, especially if the word has 4 or more letters. Basically, it's entirely possible to read th...

posted 7y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

So a couple things, but the big problem is in the United States, the age of consent is usually 16, not 18 (It's 18 in California, which where most of the world's porn is filmed. It's also the home...

posted 7y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

As mentioned, the nature of what a Warp Drive does is a scientific possibility and considered a possible near future tech with NASA working on a similar in principle Warp Drive (in Star Trek, the W...

posted 7y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Try looking for places where you're overly wordy. Your third sentence for example is clunky and seems to be trying to fit in words for the sake of getting close to the maximum. I'd re-arrange it...

posted 7y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

From a movie/tv perspective the classic "12 Angry Men" has 12 characters (it's a jury) and never leaves the jury deliberation chamber save for the ending. Similarly, the Deep Space 9 episode, whil...

posted 9y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Typically, this is an Epistolary First Person (on wikipedia it's listed as Epistolary novel) if the narrator is presenting facts after they have happened in such a manner as to be read as a false d...

posted 8y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

As yet another male with a female best friend, this happens frequently (I think I'm more often than not better friends with women than with men.). And I can say that there are some people who will...

posted 8y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

"In Media Res" (literally "In the Middle of Things) would be a term used for any story that starts at some point in the plot that is not "ab ovo" (Trans: The beginning, Lit: From the Egg) and requ...

posted 7y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I've done this a lot because a lot of my fiction takes queues from Comic Books which do this a lot (My first inspiration were the mid-2000s Superman/Batman comics which had some great mileage out o...

posted 9y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I wouldn't put too much stock in it, especially if they're a Voice-Over Actor who only appeared in a decade or so. I would take a look at his acting credits i.e. which shows he's been on and look ...

posted 9y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

As a general rule, I tend to use dashes where the character is dramatically interrupted where as ellipses are used when it's a subtler interruption. I.E. Tony:"But at least Thanos doesn't kno...

posted 7y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I do have to comment that your first example is getting kinda laughable in it's ability to cause a sense of Urgency... we all know it will be the last possible second that the bomb will be defused,...

posted 8y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I'd say who cares beyond the University students and staff. Most fictions fudge it somehow. I would say it matters if and only if the building in question is instantly recognizable to a general a...

posted 9y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

If your working on a piece for publishing that will attack a figure or orgainzation, "I believe" could be useful to denote that the accusation is not based in anything provable. For example "Spide...

posted 9y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

The Animorphs fanchise used this exclusively through all 54 main title books (told the main story through a fixed rotation of one core cast per book), five "Megamorphs" books (told from a rotating ...

posted 9y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭