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How about Crimson Skies III: Wings of War?

I'm writing a script inspired by Riker Lynch and Curt Mega's epic bromance.

The cast currently has a gay white guy adopted by an Asian family, their Black/Asian cousin, and the gay son's boyfriend.

Plus there's magic.

How about "The Red Rains Down"?

So my draft of one scene in my comic is currently set to have a large spaceship explode with the Unsound Effect SOUNDLESS KABOOOOOOOM. However, it's occurred to me that "inaudible" might actually be a better word than "soundless", because strictly speaking there would be sound, it just wouldn't carry.

Or am I getting that wrong? Does one read better than the other? Am I thinking too much about this?

edited 16th Sep '14 1:26:13 AM by nrjxll

Maybe "Inaudible Explosion" would work?

I think "Inaudible Kaboom" reads just fine and is pretty funny.

I rather like "Inaudible Kaboom", and (to my layman's thought, at least) it seems more accurate than "Soundless Kaboom".

edited 16th Sep '14 9:33:44 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

It depends largely on how you want to tone it, I think. Inaudible makes it sound higher-class.

Maybe just kaboom in really tiny letters.

If I were to portray the inaudibility through typography, I think that I'd likely use a dotted-outline font with no fill, in a pale (possibly semitransparent) colour.

The typography is already settled (it's actually going to be the opposite). I'm just debating on word choice.

That's unfortunate. A tiny sound effect against a huge explosion would be rather funny, methinks.

The idea is actually to have a very large "KABOOM" against a large splash panel explosion, with "(inaudible)" above it in small print. I think it effectively conveys the attitude towards sci-fi hardness I'll be using in the comic - avoiding unnecessary scientific errors, but not really taking it seriously.

Edit: Although I might lose the parenthesis.

It's too bad you can't have a beta reader for webcomics, honestly.

edited 16th Sep '14 6:41:38 PM by nrjxll

I like "inaudible kaboom". I'm always a fan of eloquence-and-stuff. :)

...but then there should be no kaboom. It'd be a better joke for a large explosion at high altitude or very far away. :P

edited 16th Sep '14 8:40:46 PM by Noaqiyeum

Alternately:

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Hello Writer's Block! I'm a new poster, but longtime TV Tropes visitor. I'm working on an RPG campaign that started off with the Ravenloft setting, but quickly outgrew its Gothic roots and is now exploring many broader tropes that I find intriguing.

Sometimes I have trouble fitting an idea to a scenario, and I may have to pick your collective brains for good ideas!

Welcome.

Hi.

I'm new to writer's block.

I just got over a years long bout of well, writer's block and am writing a story.

Just wanted to say hi, that's all.

Getting a fair number of newcomers these days: encouraging.

I recently resumed submission of my short stories to magazines, a process that had previously faltered. It feels good to have a story out there again, whether the story is taken up by a magazine or receives nothing but rejections.

My first rejection for the story arrived today, but it's actually a somewhat encouraging one: while they did turn it down, they also had some positive things to say about the story and my prose. I've sent it off to another magazine, and once again I wait...

To the newcomers: Welcome, and I hope that you enjoy the forum, and that it proves helpful to you. ^_^

edited 17th Sep '14 3:03:25 PM by ArsThaumaturgis

I need to get my ass in gear and send something to a magazine... I need to write a good short story first, though.

On college, there's a college fair near where I live next week that's just creative schools. I'm also going to another one that I'm being forced to go to by my school. So hopefully I see a couple that I like with my desired majors (at this point it's either screenwriting or something that'll prime me for comic books).

Also, hello to the new people! Even though I came here a couple of months ago, it feels like I'm not new anymore.

Out of curiosity, which magazines are you submitting to?

I've been wanting to get something published in Weird Tales for the longest time.

edited 17th Sep '14 4:53:29 PM by Thelostcup

For this piece I've already submitted to and heard back from Ideomancer, am waiting to hear back from Shimmer, and have a queue of Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Clarkesworld, Apex and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. I would likely submit to Lightspeed, but it seems to be closed to submissions at the moment. I had set aside On Spec for the same reason, but in going to fetch their URL for this post I discovered that they just opened to submissions; while my story doesn't fit the issue-theme that they're collecting for, they are apparently open to other submissions, and so that magazine is back in the queue.

I'm very much open to suggestions of other magazines that might be good choices to send submissions to. ^_^

Hmm... I don't seem to have Weird Tales in my list of magazines—do you have a URL for them, by any chance?

Welcome, Enixine!

Also, hey, Nova! Nice to see you here.

x several: "Silent Kaboom?"

edited 18th Sep '14 12:45:34 AM by Wheezy