Recent content by Seven Crowns

There's a book by Stephen Baxter based upon H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine." Not just borrowing time-travel ideas, it's a sequel to it, and it was on the mass market. It's called "The Time Ships." Now it's not as if "The Time Machine" was unfinished, but Baxter did take the ending and run with it...

haha, true

Yes, I think you're right. It's just a minor update to the rules, just emphasizing not to uncheck that button.

"A Confederacy of Dunces," by John Kennedy Toole. I'm reading it again. I love this book. It makes me laugh. Here, Ignatius has a job as a hot dog vendor. "Glad rags askew!" :D "Carrion Comfort," by Dan Simmons. People call it a vampire novel, but it's not about vampires. Not really. They're...

We had voted on prompts for 2025 at the old site. They change every year, and these were what we came up with this time around. I sorted them by month so that people could plan ahead. That way you could work on, let's say, October's contest now, if you had an idea, and it would be ready to post...

I chopped it out of there for you. It's gone.

It depends on the narrator though, yes? I always define my narrator as a character. The narrator might be very to the point and explain the scene with precise, godlike knowledge; nothing is held back, and certainly nothing is false. Or he might be more distant, poetic, sarcastic, or any number...

Yes, that one's me.

Our last site had certain threads which a mod or admin would mark as anonymous. When you posted in that thread, your name was hidden. The contests were essentially the only threads that used this. Then, when the contest ended, we unchecked that setting and the writers could be seen. Now, it's...

Just to get things going, it will be pretty much what we had before. But if there's a general consensus that a contest would be better if we made a slight change—maybe a large change, who knows?—and if that change is technologically possible, it's open for discussion. I think the main thing is...

These are awesome. I agree with your listing Elements of Style last. It has its place, but it's a weak authority compared to the others. It's best used as an intro of what to do. I especially like Google ngrams and use it all the time. It will answer either-or questions decisively. E.g., is it...