2007年5月19日 · Hey guys, looking for some answers on the difference between thats and that's, and which one means 'that is.' And what does the other one mean? Just...

2021年1月23日 · But they can also see you still have 200 pages left in your book, so the character probably will be just fine. That’s tension lost, and at that point you’re just going through the motions that will likely resolve in a few friendly deaths for drama and the struggle main character dealing with the pain. Yeah, yeah…been there, done that.

2007年6月6日 · Oddly enough it's going to be a humorous story, and it would take place about 20 years after the end of WWII, i think that's the war I'm going for, the one with Hitler? Wow, I feel like an idiot right about now.

2025年1月19日 · That's really interesting that you tied free will to conscience. I guess a conscience is like a set of guard rails on the worst decisions. It all makes me wonder what came first? What is the cause? What is the effect? - when looking at empathy, conscience and morality. Can you even have morality without empathy?

2013年12月2日 · We all love to laugh, yet we all laugh so differently. The word 'laugh' has a lot of synonyms: chuckle, chortle, guffaw, giggle, titter, snigger,...

2025年3月15日 · Good evening... Igor, show our guest into the drawing room. So do you feel that you're under-writing? That your work isn't evocative enough? I get that, I really do, because I used to write like that when I started. It takes time to be able to make the words flow the way you want, but it's really easy to go too far in the other direction and overwrite. Probably the best way for …

2025年1月11日 · I find writing structures depressing. Why do they exist? Why do they matter? Discussion in ' General Writing ' started by Ashley Miller, Jan 11, 2025.

2020年2月23日 · Similarly I don't think there's any harm in going generic either. Demons and monsters will always exist in the minds of people so it's not a stretch at all that when something fitting the description appears, that's what people call them.

2017年4月18日 · But that's not enough of a motivation for a person who's this deeply abusive. (Edited to add: I'm not saying that you need a coherent explanation. I'm just saying that it may be better to leave causality for the abuser a bit fuzzy, than to say that Chris became this way "because" of some very specific thing.)

2019年11月12日 · That's just what life is like. The trick is understanding what makes scenes uncomfortable, in what way, and to what degree. You don't want scenes to be uncomfortable if that's not what you intended, and you don't want to write something as traumatic as a r*pe scene like something comparatively harmless like your example.