Lightningmouse

I only include things I can explain, or are somewhat based on present technology. Actually, a couple of my things I’ve actually seen as “Possible future inventions” in popular mechanics. AFTER I WROTE THEM. I was freaking out.
My big technology leap was robotic suits with gadgets outfitted for the military. It’s still a prototype, so there are a…[Read more]

And then there are the home grown effects, they look real, not “render farmed” It’s something that looks different, realer.
Or something like that.

@Kate
YES. Totally! It’s like your own personal fanbase. 😉 My 10 year old brother seems to be my agent. He’s constantly saying I should get my books into Costco and all the libraries. To quote him: “Why go through all the little stores first? More people go to Costco!”

You know you’re a writer when all your little brothers come to your for help…[Read more]

“Oh, Doctor Who, how I love thee. Let me count the ways…”

I actually haven’t seen many Doctor Who episodes, but I already like it. Are there any other fellow Whovians in this forum?

You know you’re a writer when the school you’re homeschooled through has a writer’s block club every Friday, but you can’t go cause you’re too busy, but you feel like you’ll die without going to this writer’s block club because you’re in the middle of writer’s block.

This rant up here may not be true for everyone, but it’s the life of this…[Read more]

What I was planning on using the dragon for was just what it was in its time: a predator.
No magic, no talking.
Just an untrustworthy carnivore that breathes fire.

And, my other one from this week:

There was a thud on the grass as a shadow jumped off the brick wall surrounding Smidgen’s Nob.

An incredulous grin spread across his face and a muffled laugh disturbed the quiet n…[Read more]

You know your a writer when your siblings have fan moments just talking with you about your book.

You know your a writer when you take notes when your sick, so your characters’ sickness will me more true to life.

I do dragons, but not like the talking ones. Just the giant lizard animal ones. It’s fun playing with writing the animals that used to be.
Anyone ever read the book “After the Flood”? The dragon stories in there are mind blowing. Like a newspaper interviewing these Welsh farmers about dragons in the area and the farmers saying that they were worse…[Read more]

He doesn’t want you to call Canadians strange

Ah. I didn’t mean canadians. I meant like from-outer-space sort of aliens.
Canadians are not strange.

Nice one, Daeus! That nicely follows on making it look like it was taken for your story. 🙂

Thanks. 🙂 Yours is a nice take on it, too. The thing I was avoiding doing with that was making an evolution/creation argument. I thought everyone would jump on that.
Yeah, with that tip, it’s a lot in explaining the details. Find the question of the picture and give an answer. Like, my question with that one was “How do the lines go up that high?…[Read more]

Aliens are strange. C’mon, that’s like the whole draw.

No, they’re horribly uncomfortable and crippling. But the only way to keep the energy inside alive is by wearing them constantly. XD

Cool! That’s a good one, Kate! 🙂 Agreed, that was a well deserved win by whoever-that-was. I had too many ideas for that one and wasn’t able to get past the obvious. I always try and get it to the point where it looks like the picture has been taken exclusively for my story, and I wasn’t getting it from that one. 😛
Did you enter any of the other ones?

Ouch.
How ’bout the stilettos of doom? The power is all in the heels, so you have to be careful not to break them. 😛

Good answers. *applauds* Bravo, Ezra. We will always trust you to have opinions on strange things not a lot of us have thought of before. 😛

@kate
Magic is my big no-no. So, the tablet wasn’t magic, logically. Actually it was something important from an Indian tribe, the Bearpaws. It was their little membership card, so to speak, in the tribe.
Very important part of the story for my MC, Robin.
And the necklace in question in the other book was a sort of energy source that fell from…[Read more]

@ezra-wilkinson
We’re waiting.