The TV show Breaking Bad is probably the best, most famous example of a mostly-heroic protagonist slowly — almost imperceptibly at first —...
As a math guy: The Bechdel Test is more intended for patterns than for individual works :) If you had 8 stories with 3 characters each, and if...
I do exactly the opposite in my WIP: The narrator Alec looks like the lead protagonist for the first 2 chapters where he's the only protagonist,...
The first thing is that "top speed" doesn't actually matter here ;) According to Lucky Pony: A well-conditioned horse can easily maintain a...
I actually wrote a thread a while back about exactly this :)
My favorite general principles come from a Great Course on fiction writing: Observation or Imagination: Do you base your characters on other...
Maybe "Mortal"? Even if your mages aren't literally immortal, that would probably carry a close enough connotation for people to use it, and you...
If gravity works the same way as it does in the real world, then a flat world would feel round ;) [MEDIA]
Those are the worst :(
Fair point ;)
I completely disagree with @big soft moose about never editing on the go – I constant edit/revise my first drafts from beginning to end :D – but I...
More important than anything else: trial and error. Mostly error ;) Try something to see if it works or not, and if it doesn't work, then look at...
I’m sorry, I’m not an expert on ancient Chinese musical theory :)
Welcome to the site! That threw me for a loop too :)
If not, then there should be :)
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