Michael Stanton

@Kina-Lamb welcome aboard. 😀

@Dragon-Snapper *chokes* Yeeeeaaaahhhh… I’d be nice to the moderators, definitely. XD

@Daeus I’ll knock eight minutes off then.

@Dragon-Snapper nice. I want to read that when you’re done. *nods* Translated as: I am GOING to read it, if I have to ship myself through the internet wires to get my hands on it.

@Dragon-Snapper yum! A veritable reunion. 😀 You writing too? Or just felt like being a pizza fairy for tonight?

@Daeus just got on, and will be on till nine. See ya then.

@dragon-snapper Star Wars is an example of space opera. Your story could be planetary romance or generic SF, tho. I guess I mostly wanted to clarify if it had a large space element or not.

My hands-down favorite sci-fi series is the Ender’s Game Quartet by Orson Scott Card. Be forewarned that there’s some language in the series, if that bothers…[Read more]

@I-J-Anderson *ravenously adopts it*
She looks unusually pensive in that picture, but I can totally see Taren there. I love it. And let me just say— the white pencil (or is it chalk?) on dark paper? GORGEOUS. That takes talent and I applaud you. It gives the picture so much more character.

1: Braeden. Idealistic spy for the bad guys. EiL: that humanity is a mess, but can be saved and is worth saving. Since the villains seem to be the only ones who acknowledge that humanity is a mess, duh, obviously he would work for them. Incidentally, he gets killed— by Eldred— about halfway through the book, to keep information safe, but also…[Read more]

If you say it’s Taren I’m going to totally flip because that is literally almost identical.

W.O.W.
NOW…
NOW I CAN SEE IT.
*gulps* *hides eyes because it is literally stunning*
Who is it? There were several that could have been like that…

@I-J-Anderson

@I-J-Anderson I can’t see it… can you see it?

*pokes topic* Where’d everyone go?

@I-J-Anderson I’m going to take a stab at Gage. Not the best with drawing guys, but I wanna try it.

@dragon-snapper What sub-genre of sci-fi are you looking at writing? Hard sci-fi? Space opera? Steampunk? Something else? I haven’t written much sci-fi, but I’ve read a decent bit, so hearing what type of sci-fi you’re looking at writing would help me know what to best recommend on the reading front.

@aratrea ah-ha, I see now. Thanks for clarifying. 🙂

@Dragon-Snapper whew… I haven’t written scifi yet, though I’ve got one in the works. And… quite honestly, most of my inspiration for the actual science-y stuff came from studying physical science in my schoolwork. Like… the nature of time. And space. And how gravity is a result of those two, bent. And how stars work… and what gases do what…[Read more]

Finish the second draft of my WIP, run through it one more time, and send it out to beta readers. Also write a novella. (Yes. The same novella I put int the Fall and Winter Writing Goals. *weak chuckle*)

*silently hands out chocolate because there’s nothing else to be done*

@Dragon-Snapper

Wasn’t it marvelously put together on every conceivable level though?

@kate-flournoy Ah–I missed your original comment saying it’s Method #1. I think it depends on how you view it. Now that I think about it a bit more, they probably are both versions of Method #1. From a plot-based standpoint, they’re more Method 2, but from a theme-standpoint they’re likely both Method 1. Which is actually a really nice way of…[Read more]

@jane-maree Something like that could work. You could also try the Lord-of-the-Rings method of making another figure under that villain a more prominent villain for the heroes to have to fight against, a la Saruman or Gollum. There is a place for the overlord character type to remain bland as long as the focus isn’t really on him as a villain.