Hello people! So I never used to be in the genre (in fact I have yet to read any horror... I should do that), but over the last few years I have...
Why does 'they' in the personal, singular form have to be informal? Language changes all the time. It may be 'technically' informal right now, but...
Aha, good point. I see what we're dealing with now. I would use 'they' in that case. But I had never thought of using 'he' as being a problem. I...
I put in a few snippets. I got Arthur Clarke, Mary Shelley, and Dan Brown... Quite a spectrum!
This is something I have never thought about at all. I never thought of 'he' and 'she' as generic. I figured 'he' referred to a man, and 'she'...
You could try turning it into a timeline/flowchart type diagram. Like this crazyness from xkcd:...
I don't think people sniff their nose at sci-fi and fantasy. Sci-fi tends to be very philosophical... And I'm totally fine with something...
I think these pretty much sum up why stuff feels so incomplete. But I am still curious about your thoughts on what does make a story complete!...
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