Writer's Block Daily

10 pages through so far. I'm thinking this could actually work better as an illustrated serial than a comic, because I can go more into the characters' thoughts and histories.

So I decided to take my uncle suggestion and make my story setting's fictional, and I like the idea of making up my own city and stuff but names are hard. x_x

edited 14th Feb '13 8:16:38 PM by Masterofchaos

^ Idea for thought: Make a theme out of the city's design. I did it when thinking about the setting for one location in my book called Rio Azúl. The them being specifically all the street names were in Spanish.

Make up a fictional history of the place too. Even if you never need to use most of it in your story, it can serve as a foundation for other elements you set up (as mentioned before, names for streets or buildings or what not might allude to the culture or history of the place)

I stayed up until five so I could finish writing a dumb thing. Then I woke up four hours later for class.

Not sure if worth it...

Wheezy: If you write it as a book, are you still gonna supply illustrations for some of the scenes? Or no?

Has anybody else played any Sims games?

I've played SimCity in various versions, and (of all things) SimAnt. But The Sims never interested me.

So this got up briefly in the trope repair shop in the appearance tropes thread, but albinos in fiction are overwhelmingly identified by pale skin + white hair + red eyes.

That's kind of right, but from what I understand is that it's a lot more common for albinos to have pale hair (not necessarily white) or light blue or violet eyes. (The violet coming from pale blue eyes + red blood vessels.)

That and, albinism is about a lot more than exotic coloring? So my question is; are there any examples of characters in fiction that portray albinism more accurately?

The only examples I could think of were Billy Raven from the Children of the Red King series (he has poor eyesight, and man that book series brings me back,) and Dave Strider as portrayed in Brainbent.

I'm looking for someone to read something for me...

I just research albinism for a school project a couple of weeks ago.

You're correct. There's different degrees of albinism. Some are of the stereotypical extreme (pure white hair, really pale skin, red eyes), but many retain some color. Also, those with albinism often have vision problems and skin that is extra sensitive to sunlight.

So maybe the trope criteria could be widened. Tropes Are Flexible, after all.

By the way, I'm currently brainstorming a story idea. Does this tagline pique your curiosity?

"Leading ghosts to the afterlife became routine to him—until she came."

edited 15th Feb '13 5:38:52 PM by chihuahua0

Consider my interest at least moderately piqued. I'd want to read further!

Good! Here's the theoretical query letter that I just wrote *

Depending on how I write this, I might put this up on Wattpad.

Now the question is...should I try writing this or go back to Manifestation Files?

I've played the original Sims and SimSafari. Never tried to use it for character-building, though I do have a friend who used Sims 2 for that purpose.

I'd be glad for more asexual representation if you go that route, although a non-aromantic asexual could still be involved in a romance.

... when I reached "ghost outburst" my mind jumped to a recent mass death or tragedy they had to deal with. That is probably not where you're actually going, since it would hardly be a mystery if they have access to news of any sort, but.

I sincerely apologize, but I saw the line about the ghost coming as something else.

With that said, your story premise sounds interesting and I also agree that asexual representation, (be it through an asexual aromantic or an asexual non-aromantic) would be awesome.

edited 15th Feb '13 7:48:20 PM by Hermiethefrog

All of a sudden, I want to write either a fight scene or a character's introduction as if it was backed by Blood Sugar.

Ya know I was just having a thought about that Russian meteorite. It basically just disproved all of Atomic Rocket's assumptions. It was a 10 ton pile of rocks with a sunny side that this far out from the Sun wouldn't be cold and yet science admits even if they were looking in the direction it was coming from they had a very high probability of not finding it before it went boom over the Ural Mountains.

Perhaps a thread should be made on the matter? Because it appears the "warm object lights up like a Christmas tree to even the most rudimentary sensors from very great distances" schtick Atomic Rocket spouts every other page has suffered from Science Marches On.

2012 2A14 (the one that passed by Earth last night and apparently didn't hit a thing) was in the same boat and that one is much larger than the Ural event.

edited 16th Feb '13 7:13:54 AM by MajorTom

Sorry, that's not how it works.

Warm objects do light up like a Christmas tree to space-based infrared detectors, atmosphere disperses infrared like everything else and at the moment we have only a couple of infrared space-based observatories, one of which I think is permanently tasked to look at the sun. And a spacecraft would be significantly warmer than the rock would.

edited 16th Feb '13 10:19:25 AM by Night

Then why did none of the detectors in space not catch it? Not all of them are busy staring into the Sun like a bored 8 year old.

Because you can't watch the entire sky, and space is really fucking huge.

I know that's been stated like a bazillion times before, but it's pretty much impossible to overstate how unbelievably, hugely massive space is. Space is so big that trying to get a good look at the entire sky is a fool's errand. Additionally, the meteor was estimated to be less than sixty feet in diameter.

Besides, most telescopes don't have a field of view. Europe's Very Large Telescope has (if I'm not mistaken) a fairly large field of view for a telescope, and yet it's less than a quarter of a degree. Saying "Well, some telescope must have seen it" is a bit like taking a very large sheet of paper, putting two dots on there at random, and acting surprised when the dots aren't in the exact same place.

Space needs more omnidirectional sensors. :|

And that right there defeats Atomic Rocket's entire schtick.

What is Atomic Rocket's 'entire schtick', exactly?

Denying fans of soft science fiction the chance to have their cake and eat it too.