In a couple of my works I have written the characters with accents in their initial conversation, then gradually slide it towards normal English...
It all really depends on how you have established other elements in the story. If you have background explanations for other things, or, if there...
Most definitely, I tend to write with my characters in a totally different world setting, but the same characters, in some ways to see how they...
I tend to start with the scenario, and then toss characters into it to see how they fit. Once I begin to build the scenario, and the characters...
It sounds like a fine idea to do, just be sure to explain it properly so the reader can understand what is going on. Or have her still refer to...
This will be my last response on this thread, as I never intended to trigger any sort of flame war or hostile debate, which you seem to be looking...
Sorry if my personal experience offends you in some way. As I live with people who have mental illness, of varying complexities, I am allowed to...
Welcome to the current form of our local insanity complex. Being we do not follow all of society's rules here, we can all be considered insane. I...
My current WIP deals with a female character, who through abuse suffered as a POW, develops a split personality and then begins going by the...
My current WIP which is a Military romance fiction has made one of my Beta Readers cry. His exact opening comment was "So touching that I, a...
Other factors of need. What are the motivations of the ascended beings? What are they in fact? Two halves of a whole? Let's call them Gaiahounds...
Nuclear Reactors in all of their aspects fascinate me, they always have. If you can get your hands on it, the book Saturn Rukh, by Robert Forward...
Just to add a concept here... If you are detailing a spacecraft, then solid reactor systems like Graphite are out, as they require air cooling,...
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