They don't need a personal flaw at all, and trying to show horn one in could end up seeming contrived. I do think with UK crime drama the DI...
Personally I can not understand the approach of avoiding getting close to someone because they have 'baggage'. People are people and you either...
At 30-50m high I'd have thought a cannon would have at least injured them. Unless they have scales or something, or course. What about a bolt...
Is it the devil? if so he is going to want something pretty big. maybe he wants an artefact finding, or destroying? If it was another magical...
Yes, but my story is set in a secondary world, technologically equivalent to the 30s/40s. Old English and Welsh both stem from PIE, but so does...
I love Turisas and Alestorm, not often you find people who know who they are. Yeah, I hate churned-out-pop-pap, but not all lyrics have to be...
Hmmm. I'm not more clear on what to do now than I was before. I will have to post some work in the workshop so people can give thoughts in...
It depends on how much you want the location to flavour the story. Are you going to use the windy streets of Chicago to set the scene? Of course...
Do US courts have public galleries?
As other people have said, tropes are not in and of themselves a bad thing, they have developed as tropes for a reason after all. If you are just...
In fantasy did the races evolve at all? Also, even if they did and orcs and humans share an ancestor, it doesn't follow they will find each of...
How would you describe a meaningful way?
I think its ok for an author to ask questions, but to try and give answers is just arrogant tosh. (Pretty much like all art really) And yes in my...
Hmmm, your second point was what worries me. As to the first point, they are infrequent, in the first two chapters I just flicked through there...
I think you misunderstand me, I do not give every piece of dialogue in the original language, in fact there are only a few words here and there...
Separate names with a comma.