Without characters, a story is little more than a detailed road-map, or atlas. Empty scenes, and situations would be hollow, blank neighborhoods, fictional deserts of magnitudes post apocalyptic. Imagine reading a book where you were given beautiful descriptions, detailed environments, dangerous scapes, and deadly terrains, but nothing happened. Ever. Thi...
The following is a guided exercise. It's intent is to allow you to get out of your own way and let your character tell you about themselves. Simply answer the questions to the best of your ability. Some of the questions will spark more answers. That's good. Just write and move on. You should write out this information with no structure in mind, simply let t...
BIG FAT NOTE: This is a work in progress that has recently been heavily updated. As such, most of the linked chapters are obsolete. I will get around to fixing that eventually. Sex World is intended to be a mixture of game and writing exercise heavily informed by the tropes of porn movies. It's also inspired by Slut World by SwampThing and the Powered by the...
Note: This is meant as a branch off of here. Read that page first. A loud “eww” went unheard in the room that seems to exist outside time and space. Showing that naked body resembling yours was totally uncalled for. After a quick panicked fiddling with the controls it was replaced with a different character, a human female with the default settings. Not the...
Good Day! I Began Writing This Essay— Tuesday, January 30th, 2018, 6:31 p.m. "Well, it means being able to find and arrange just the most effective words to communicate your feelings and explain things." —Dr. Deborah Morelli ("Lying Young" part 1) Top of the morning to you! Or, bottom of the evening to you! Or, whenever you happen to be reading. Of the...
Not an actual story, just a guide I hope someone finds useful. Character: Important characters require backstory, beliefs, and personality. The quantity of detail depends on the level of importance. Not all characters require back story, there is nothing wrong with "throw away" characters. The most important thing needed for writing characters is empathy....
Ashley Williams was a decorated War Hero, mother, the best sniper in Alliance history, and the best friend to many of the crew on the Normandy. She was the most famous person to ever come out of the human colony of Amaterasu and that was where she and several other members of the Normandy now spent their lives in their post war retirement. Today was just lik...
Role-playing via the Internet is everyone's biggest fantasy come to live. It is a nearly endless playground. You can find someone willing to be anyone you can possibly imagine in the online world, and you can find partners literally from all over the globe. That be said, there are some worries about this kind of play. People of all ages enjoy the anonymity a...
This is the first story in what I hope will eventually be a larger collection. Or maybe it will be the only one, considering how long it took to complete. I have a bit of a hangup regarding posting a story that's not finished; far too many of my favorite serials have been abandoned and left as monuments to premature expostulation...and so if you're reading t...
FBI'S MOST WANTED; A LIST OF DESCRIPTION DOS AND DONTS Half of the stories you see on this website suffer from a simple, and easily-reversible flaw. Show, not tell. Specifically, characters. The paragraph below is an example of a writing style that is unimaginative, cheap, lazy, and unappealing to read. ... "Hi, my name is Brenda. I've been going to Fuckm...