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Grand! I actually have one or two newish ideas I wanted to expand on, which wouldn't fit in a short story. This is perfect.

It's perfectly possible to tell serious stories using outlandish elements. It's in the execution, as you said in your original post. I think what you're saying about "grounded in the characters" is very important. In my last post I described my novel series as a silly comedy, and it is, but...

WriFiFoRum? No, that's not a serious suggestion, disregard that. I've always thought NaNoWriMo sounds like a lot of fun, and a great way to learn to force yourself to write. I'd be happy to join! I don't know how these things generally work. Would we be allowed to start planning/outline our...

Oh, I love that sort of stuff. My current main project is a blend of the two, perhaps leaning a bit more towards fantasy. I don't have dragons (they're extinct, the setting's equivalent of dinosaurs) but there are spaceships (only one actual high-tech vessel, but many magical oars-and-sails type...

Found a time capsule in the form of an old memory card. It was stuffed with, appropriately enough, memories. I haven't sifted through it all yet, not even close, but most importantly I found a whole lot ofwriting dating back to 2015/16 (I know some of this stuff is significantly older, but that...

Finished Red Rising (my phone doesn't seem to want to do italics) which was a very absorbing read and a hell of a wild ride. It's making me want to finish an old WIP of mine that's sorta in the same vein. We'll just see about that. Since I don't have the next in the series lined up, I raided my...

I had a phase were I was quite hung up on the technicalities. I read grammar books and style manuals and all that. It was good and necessary for me to get a decent grasp on the basics, so that now I can be pretty relaxed and lackadaisical about it, trusting myself not to commit any too-grievous...

@Phoenix Knight No hypocrisy detected. Video games are a gray area, they're one of the most seductive time sinks I can think of, but there's also a proper way to engage with them—the "good" kind of video game, anyway. You mention League, and that one can swing either way. I used to play Ranked...

Agree with everything else you say, but I have to speak up in defense of video games. It's such a broad category. A lot of them are just mindless fun, yeah, or sometimes mindless without any fun, or at best interactive stories just a notch above movies (and I love movies, but they're still...

Boredom is (ironically?) pretty interesting, and my relationship with it has changed over time. It's pretty hard now to even get a grasp on. What do I even mean when I use the word? If I think back to childhood, I can point out two distinct forms of boredom: A) being forced to pay attention to...

I can appreciate a well-defined magic system, and I see the appeal; but I definitely lean toward "soft" in my own writing, at least so far as my couple of novel series are concerned. Never really sat down to think about why that's the case, but I guess now's my chance! Pausing here to go look...

I had a real hankering for some good sci-fi of the gritty, grungy kind, so the last time I stopped by a bookstore I picked up Red Rising by Pierce Brown. It's a book that's been on my radar pretty much since I heard about it, but somehow it never happened before now. Less than a hundred pages in...

I've really fallen in love with this one lately. Currently on my forty-somethingth listen!

Yeah, we've all seen that cycle so many times, it's perfectly routine. I didn't get overexcited when I saw the other creatures, because as cool as they were, I figured they were gonna cause a little bit of havoc early on, before being squashed and never seen or mentioned again. I'm so happy to...