Anybody know of a good resource for worldbuilding questions that is aimed more at science fiction/modern setting worlds rather than fantasy/historical settings?

ETA: Specifically superheroic/comic book-style universe building would be most excellently appropriate.

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Found this while looking for writing prompt bingo card communities. It's a bingo card generator that you can either use to create your own bingo card (i.e. give it a list of prompts of your own choosing) or use one of a variety of pre-generated lists. It allows you to create cards as small as 1x1 and as large as 7x7 ( Read more... )

In the case of an actual Writer Freak Out I probably wouldn't be posting, I'd be curled up on my bed whining about how much I suck. 'Cause, yeah...

Found this article earlier today: The Writer’s Toolkit: The Alpha and The Omega of your novel. It talks about having a kernal idea for your book and how important it is and at first I was like, "But I ( Read more... )

Just for bragging purposes, I want to mention that as of today I have reached 49,348 words in my Nanowrimo project for this year. I need to write another 652 words to reach my 50,000 word goal ( Read more... )

But I do like this poem about a spider.

Spider
legs, eyes
meet, eat, greet
little, odd, creepy,hungry
Spider.
Denver. Canyon Springs MS, Austin

The poem was written for the 2010 Austin International Poetry Festival which I found out about on Guyslitwire's feed on LJ ( Read more... )

Ok, so it's not so much a battle as it is me whinging like a whinging thing about why writing is haaaard.

( I got to pondering about this the other night at work since I'm in the middle of working on both fanfics and original fictions at the same time. )

The notes for Chapter Two have been removed since I do not want to cause offense. If you're interested in purchasing a copy of "Them's Fighting Words" you can follow this link: Them’s Fighting Words: How to Write Fight Scenes by Teel James Glenn. It's certainly worth picking up ( Read more... )

I bought my first ever ebook today. I stumbled over it when I was looking for information on writing fight scenes, partly for 7_Conflicts and partly because action scenes are one area in which I know I could use all the help I can get. The book is called Them’s Fighting Words: How to Write Fight Scenes by Teel James Glenn. It’s one of the few ( Read more... )

Of "Said" and Beyond:

Some more in-depth information on writing and formatting and generally handling dialogue.

Thanks to restriction@Transficsation for catching an error

( Of Said and Beyond )

Punctuating Dialogue: A Cheat Sheet:

This was originally written for a GI Joe fan fiction writers' workshop I was a part of. I've since adapted it for Transformers fandom. Which basically involved changing GI Joe quotes to Transformers quotes.

Source: Writing Dialogue by Tom Chiarella. Story Press: Cincinnati, OH, 1998. The bits in bold are ( Read more... )