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edited 11th Apr '18 6:31:51 PM by dRoy
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Well, it's the main character's flashback. He wouldn't explain that stuff out loud and I'm not sure how else to work the information in since the only hint in dialogue is that he mentioned getting chopped in half and eaten by sharks is pretty bad (though no one around him really took that seriously at the time).
In My One Piece centered crossover fic I was going to have Hinata and a Swampert to join the crew. However, I don't know what Hrinat's official posion could be or what to make a Swampert wanted for besides probity damage and I'm pretty shire that would dos not care about it. Any ideas?
edited 29th Apr '11 9:52:06 AM by RandomChaos
With the power of a dragon I can make up for my inability to spill.![]()
I don't think it's narmy. It's something, but "narm" isn't really the right word for it. More like, redundant, really? We all know what screams sound like. I also think if you're going to have something like AAAAAARG in your story you should think hard, because something in all-caps like that is going to be the first thing the reader sees, so it's not a surprise.
I wonder if it would be too much to make my MC an indirect serial killer.
Since they're aliens, there's no reason not to make one up. It's not like they speak English, except as a Translation Convention, and even a translator is going to have a problem coming up with a word for third gender.
edited 29th Apr '11 11:52:34 PM by Madrugada
It's going to depend on a number of factors:
- Where does he live? In some places, a small but decent studio or one-bedroom apartment will rent for $250 to $300 a month. In others, the same apartment would be $800 or more.
- What is he renting? If he's renting a room on a boarding house it will be less that if he's renting an apartment in an apartment building which will probably be less than if he's renting in a two-flat or duplex, which is less than if he's renting a house or a townhouse.
- When is it set? In 1979, I rented a nice, big, one-bedroom apartment in a good area of Mobile, Alabama, furnished, for $250 a month, not including electric.
Look at the For rent ads in the newspaper for an idea of what the prices are in the town you're setting the work in (or in a similar town, if yours is fictional.) Lots of newspapers have their classified and real estate sections available online.
edited 30th Apr '11 8:48:33 AM by Madrugada
That's going to depend on what sort of management you've got. An individual might let you go for quite a while, if they're feeling kindly and think that you can get caught up. A management company will probably not let you get more than one or two months behind before they serve notice to "pay up or get out" on you.
So in my universe magic is genetic. I figure that since the ability to reshape reality with your mind is a fairly useful one, if it had always been around since the beginning of humanity as a species evolution would have made it near-universal by the modern day. Assuming that on average magic is inherited as a trait about 50% of the time (although it depends how many of your parents/grandparents/etc were mages) when would the genes for magic first have to have appeared so that by modern times it would have spread worldwide, but still be extremely uncommon? Is that even plausible at all?
Scepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. - Clarence DarrowIn my Ben Ten fanfic he gets mermaid and vampire forms. But I don't have names for them. And I am Renaming the Mummy can people come up wit suggestions?
With the power of a dragon I can make up for my inability to spill.does anyone think it is worth while to find a song to associate with a given character? does it ever help you visualize their drive? I do this a lot sometimes without trying to. I just say "this would be so and so's theme song"
I thought I might try to actually tag some songs to some characters.
as of the 2nd of Nov. has 6 weeks for a broken collar bone to heal and types 1 handed and slowly
Hmm. I know where to go for the songs in general, but there are so many drives and aspects of my characters I can't narrow them down like that, but I can get the best one suited for teh story I guess.
Anyone else do this/find this a good idea?
as of the 2nd of Nov. has 6 weeks for a broken collar bone to heal and types 1 handed and slowlyIn the past I've found that associating a character with a song limited my perception of them and kept them on very rigid rails, but I suppose that's not a bad thing in all situations.
If you cut yourself on glass, is there a proper procedure to take care of that? Also, how likely is it that the average joe knows how to do proper stitches?
All the times I've cut myself in glass (which is fairly often since I'm a stained glass newbie who even cut herself shopping for glass and has grand lapses in judgment like rubbing her thumb against cut glass... OTL) I mainly just bandage it and move on with my life. Maybe wash it or put some Neosporin on it if it's particularly deep.
The average Joe would not know how to do stitches or at least I wouldn't trust anyone I know to do stitches in an emergency except my dad who wanted to be a paramedic and my cousin who is training to become a nurse and if I was REALLY desperate, I would pretend knowing how to sew plushies applies to people...
A little boy misinterprets a mob boss's comment wishing out loud that one of his subordinates would sleep with the fishes. He thinks it's some kind of prank where you dump a dead fish into someone's bed. Are there any species of fish that smell particularly bad? Currently it's either going to be a trout or salmon or a chopped off shark head.
edited 1st May '11 12:24:46 PM by Kaxen
Hey, I need to know if nanomachines would be affected by an EMP. I assume so, but I'd like to be sure.
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial
