Recent content by CreatorOfBotis

I have an unfortunate time mixing up India and Indiana - I went to school in Indiana but have a lot of friends from India ... I never know when to stop typing. Also tend to screw up anything with w, e, and r in it (like screw, which I originally had as screwer ...) and often end up making...

Die! villain

Rory grew on me - I couldn't stand him for the longest time, and I was almost disappointed that he was going to be sticking around for series 6, but he definitely grew on me throughout last year. And, after all,

That's definitely very true - our preconceptions influence what we interpret while we read. Have you read much amateur work on sites like fictionpress? Often enough the username doesn't imply gender, and even a lot of user pages don't identify it. This of course brings us back to it being more...

I used to be 100% discovery. Absolutely refused to outline, didn't see its purpose. Didn't have a need. Then I went back and read through one of my more inspired projects and started finding plot holes, or areas that needed to be badly re-written because something happened later that made that...

I recently came up with an idea for a historical fiction novel - well outside of my comfort zone. Not only am I'm pretty comfortably stuck with fantasy, but that would require research! I can't bring myself to write about something I know very little about unless I can write it off as something...

I voted yes, but to me it really depends on a lot of different things. I would say that it's painfully obvious to me in certain genres. If, in urban fantasy, for example, a book is written by a male, I can tell pretty quickly, regardless of the main character's gender. I'm not sure what it is...

Hi there - I just stumbled across this site and thought it looked like it might be a good place to spend a fair amount of time. I used to write a ton, and then I went to college and well ... time, there's never enough time. Now that I'm a proud member of the so-called "real world" I'm trying to...