It sounds like you’re in the Great Swampy Middle. Edit: looks like the full post is down. This is what I was able to find: — Here's the nutshell...
The bird was actually pretty useful to saving words. It’s not from Earth, so it helps the love interest discover the MC is an alien. Since the MC...
My setting includes aliens called Riders, little lizard-caterpillar thingies that have a symbiotic relationship with animals. I’m trying to come...
I’ve used Scapple, but only for game design. I find it good for tracking what events need to occur before or after other events, so I can...
For context, I just finished reading a book called Kinesis. It skipped around in ways that didn’t feel natural to me, and I eventually realized...
Digging up something I posted way back when: I've seen voices inside a character' head done "like this" (the character hears it like a real...
I was pretty sure I was being creative with my telekinetic armadillos and symbiotic lizards and dragontaurs who're walking Maxwell's Demons. Then...
Courtesy of Prokopetz: How To Tell If You Are In a Hard Science Fiction Novel Space travel is hugely inconvenient and cartoonishly unpleasant....
My first thought for "passive" genre protagonists are the dudes in harem manga. And there's a reason so many people hate harem manga.
The Ducktales reboot cartoon shows a very good grasp of this, because they aim to create surprises a small child would recognize in retrospect,...
One of my characters has a sudden shock. The way I wanted to represent it was that her thoughts slow down as she tries to process what she's...
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