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It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.
How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?
Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.
Best Pixar short?
the big fucking bird that sat on the powerlines and fucking killed all those nasty tiny little shit bitch birds who were mean to him
October can’t come soon enough
for the draft thing: when i start writing novels i always have a lot of beginning, a fair amount of backstory, a solid ending, and maybe one or two key events in between, but nothing in the middle. i'm never sure how to approach this and it usually kills a lot of my projects :/ not sure if this is a question you can answer easily but if there's any tips i'd love to hear it!
I’ve gathered a couple of resources that I believe may help you with this.
Coming Up With Scene Ideas
How To Engage The Reader
Pacing Appropriately
Balancing Detail & Development
Writing The Middle of Your Story
Powering Through The Zero-Draft Phase
Maintaining Writing Momentum
How To Prevent Getting Stuck
Writing Your Way Through The Plot Fog
Resources For Plot Development
Guide To Plot Development
How To Foreshadow
Novel Planning 101
Tackling Subplots
Things A Reader Needs From A Story
Planning A Scene In A Story
How To Fit Character Development Into Your Story
And some prompts in case you have trouble getting the creative juices flowing while you’re brainstorming...
Romantic Prompts
Angst Prompts
Dramatic Prompts
Suspenseful Prompts
Sad Prompts
20 Sentence Story Prompt
31 Days of Character Development : May 2018 Writing Challenge
31 Days of Plot Development : January 2019 Writing Challenge
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i liked doing the independent run because it meant i could walk into caesar’s tent with a missile launcher and atomize him and yes man didn’t even give a fuck that i did that. mr house wouldve been all