I'm having trouble thinking of insults and slurs for my lizardfolk to use against humans and I need some help. All I have so far is "mammal"...
Hi everyone, I'm working on a story centered around a small town smack-dab in the middle of North America, run by a large mafia family. I'm...
Hello, So I am working on a new psychological horror(?) story concept, and one of the main things about this one that makes it a little different...
I came up with this setting quickly, at least compared to how much it usually takes me to come up with detailed settings. Too quickly, in my...
So I am stuck. Not in the sense that I don't know what to write next, cause, believe me, I have many ideas, but I am such in how my character...
I’ve been working on a book project for quite a while, and recently I have begun to wonder if I need magic. Magic’s always been very light and...
Hi! I want to start writing a book and I have an important question. Can I use names from TV series or shows or do I have to change them? Thank you!
Two of my characters are fleeing from the castle, and I'm not sure how to change from the castle to a forest. One chapter ends at the castle, and...
Is it better to draw out my setting? I used to do that in my early days of my writing but nowadays I stopped doing that, I only did it for my...
This thread will be about breaking free from the habit of bland or repetitive description of a character’s environment. I know its commonplace for...
Busy with the first draft of a story and am coming to the end of a chapter of a certain timeframe. Beginning with the next chapter the story...
150 years ago, a mysterious experiment went wrong. From that day onwards, whenever someone dies, a nigh-indestructible giant appears to ravage...
Good day everyone! I hope this thread finds you well. I wanted to come on here with a few questions for those reading this about setting...
I am currently writing a story that is centered around an magic artifact that was found and studied by humans before it caused a gobal disaster. A...
I am on my first novel, my natural drive is to imagine the town I was raised in, Cirencester. However, that feels a bit, corny and trite. DO I...
Fantasy setting. Going forward for now I'll be referring to the setting as The City (names are hard), some other things have working names as...
Basically, looking to get into writing TV episodes, and wanting to really make sure I have a great setting. It'll be an absurdist show, similar to...
Anyone else here need a good ambient jam to really get in the mood for particular settings? I really enjoy lo-fi playlists when writing urban...
How would you describe how a dialect sounds in a world that isn't like our own? For example, a northern dialect can be compared to a Norweigan...
For example, Caravan arrangement by Duke Ellington puts me in mind of the desert (I was a band nerd in middle school and we played this song. We...
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