That really depends on what your goal is. There are way too many ways to write a fight scene to boil it down to simple advice. Like any other scene, it’s all about pacing, word choice and scene goals. Some general advice to follow is that you can control the reader’s pace in a scene …
Avoiding Writing Your Characters into Corners
This is a problem with a lot of fanfiction, I find. Part of it’s the simple fact that people are worried about writing themselves into a corner by creating a situation they don’t know how to get out of. It’s hard to put characters in peril and I haven’t quite figured out how to do …
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On Conceptualising a Story
You know what I think the problem with this thread is? Too many people putting the cart before the horse. A lot of focus on creating a scenario, and not nearly enough on creating a purpose for that scenario. If I may make a suggestion: instead of focusing on the weird event, instead focus on …
On Superheroes
Superheroes have always been a juvenile power fantasy, complete with the assertion that the protagonist is always right and authority trying to impose rules on them is wrong.
On Writing Fight Scenes, Part 1
Remember that in writing, you have three whole extra senses to work with. Further, do not try to emulate a visual medium in a literary form. All mediums have their strengths and weaknesses, and you should construct your fight scenes to play to the strengths of your medium and not try to adapt one to …
On Presuppositionalism
Presuppositionalism is the last bastion of the sophist. Yes, you can no more use logic to prove logic than you can use perception to disprove solipsism. However, the question is irrelevant. Until and unless we encounter a qualia which contradicts that fundamental assumption of reality (i.e., it exists) we basically have no choice but to assume it …
On the Sidereal Great Curse
The trick to understand about the Sidereal Great Curse is that it doesn’t make you do stupid things, it makes it so that you stop listening to other people. The way the Sidereal Great Curse works is that the more Sidereals agree with a particular decision, the harder it is to convince any Sidereal not to support that decision. …
On How Infinite Primordials Can Be Bound
I think people are confusing “infinite” with “bounded”. The set of all numbers is infinite and unbounded. The set of all even numbers, is infinite and bounded. Thus Malfeas is both infinite and bounded. The Primordials and shinma were created by a math geek, so to understand them you have to understand math.
On Adorjan
Adorjan, the Silent Wind of Malfeas. Once, in the Time Before she was Adrian, the River of All Torments, whose fury drove back all the might of the Exalted until a single Exalt found her fetich soul and slew it. In response to the death of his heart, Adrian dried up and became Adorjan. Adorjan, …
Mass Effect’s Reapers Meet A Yozi
Harbinger: We are the ultimate pinnacle of evolution. She Who Lives In Her Name: EVOLUTION IS AN IMPERFECT PROCESS, A RANDOM COLLECTION OF ENDLESS MISTAKES AND FAILURES CULMINATING FINALLY IN IMPERFECT BEINGS WHOSE ONLY VIRTUE IS THAT THEY FAILED LESS EFFICIENTLY THAN THEIR COUSINS. I BRING THE SOLUTION TO THE FAILURE OF EVOLUTION. I BRING HIERARCHY.