Make him a smooth talker. All other details are irrelevant. Avoid fire and brimstone. In almost every work of fiction that Satan or devils have...
Thesaurus BAD Reading GOOD Both expand your vocab, the latter does it better.
Giving up your seat for pregnant women and old people is a round-the-world custom. So realistically, he'd probably oblige. However, you could make...
Yes, the whole thing was a bit of an anticlimax. You don't set up your villain in a position which could screw him over or allow him to escape and...
The Lovely Bones Unfortunate implications goldmine.
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzche The Trial - Franz Kafka Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
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A Wizard of Earthsea, done faithfully, would be a dream come true. I would say His Dark Materials but they already buggered that up.
I tend to pace restlessly or go jogging. Physical activity loosens me up a little.
Weird Freudian thingy, fantasy setting, giant squids.
The quality of armour depends on two things: maneuverability and defence. Stone armour would offer crap maneuverability, it's incredibly heavy and...
I listen to a specific playlist depending on what kind of thing I'm writing. I mostly tend to listen to Massive Attack to get that...
Just WRITE IT. When you've already written something and you find yourself thinking "it's crap", REWRITE IT. Nothing revitalises a story like a...
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