Posts by Liquid
It doesn't need to be much. Being a bully doens't actually mean that everyday of school you are pushing people into lockers, smoking cigarettes in the bathroom and carving death threaths on school...
If you want the Big Reveal to be taken seriously, just present it as such. Make it serious. A 4th wall break cannot happen unless you specifically want it. Sure, some of your players will smirk and...
A possible answer I thought of: Meet the Everyman The Everyman (or woman) is a character who's the epitome of being normal. This is played quite often in media to make the audience sympathize mor...
In many works of genre-fiction (I'm talking mainly about fantasy and sci-fi, but others genres can apply), and across many forms of media, the main characters ends up being special in some ways. M...
Well, it may seem obvious, but you need research. From your point of view it may seem really difficult, since you didn't have any experience of schools after first grade, but don't worry. Most of ...
Adding to Maura's answer: "Detailed design" implies you will go in-depht showing the abstract structure of your project. This means showing what the program does, without looking at the code. Desi...
I'm gonna answer to the question in the title: Ultimately it's up to you. They are different media. Your friend must be right on some level. I too have the habit to imagine my stories as movies...
In my opinion, you should. It's a good thing to plan ahead for sequels, but a first draft is not a finished book. There are at least two reasons that I can see to edit before going forward: Y...
Short answer: You should write just as much as necessary, and nothing more. Short stories are supposed to be like that - short. Even if it's a fantasy setting, maybe a wildly elaborate one, you s...
You can treat the light beam as a geometrical object, as you have started to do in your explanation. You could go with something of the like "Imagine that every point on the surface of the sheet ...
Make a spreadsheet. In case you don't know: A spreadsheet is a file which stores data in a tabular form. Popular software for spreadsheet making are, of course, Microsoft Excel or the open source...
This is a chart of the stars in the Ursa Major: And here, straight out from Wikipedia, is an explanation of the name "Tania Borealis", given to the star also known as Lambda Ursae Majoris: I...
I realize this may be a duplicate question. I've seen, for reference [ How long can a first novel be? ] yet I think my situation is a little more specific. I find myself in a similar situation. M...
Coming from a very short, scene and dialogue oriented style, I struggle with this too. I'd argue that sometimes you want brevity and a few quick lines of dialog between two characters are all that ...
I don't think it's an oxymoron. Sure thing, you have chosen a strange mix of images to evoke - mainly due to the contrast between "cradling" and "rocked". But as far as I read it, it's a legitima...
My answer is somewhat similar to the ones already given, even from a slightly different perspective. I had forgotten about their races because it wasn't important to me and I had not noticed wh...
From a structure point of view, you're making it far too short to be easily understandable by a reader. “Love not self - love no one” It sounds more like a commandment to live by rather than ...
A popular writing theory states that any story worth telling describes the movement from one status quo to another, and that major uncertainties in the inception and conclusion should be avoided...
I've got a 40h, full-time job, as many do. Yet I'd like to become a writer someday, or at least, bring a novel through the first draft. This considered, I'm trying to give myself a daily target of...
I agree with bruglesco's answer about keeping the same word count. I'll add that it depends on the situation and on the given roleplay session. If it's a large group of people, your best bet is i...
My answer is twofold: Ensure that the set-up to the crying is well-established: You want your reader to be able to understand why your character is crying, if you want the scene to be effective. ...
You won't be able to portray it in a less negative way, unless you try to really force your hand on the "good vs evil" theme, and even then you would raise eyebrows. You stated that those childre...
I understand that if you are quoting something that a character said, that you would do the usual (Author's Last name, Page number), but what if you're quoting a scene? I'd go with quoting the...
It's ultimately up to you, but you don't want your ancient Persia overridden by knights. You may as well make them wear full plate armor instead of describing whatever garment was in use in that ag...
I'm adding my two cents to the answer of Rasdashan: It can be refreshing, but you have to do it well The main issue is that such a unexpected change has to be foreshadowed. If the story progresse...
