Recent content by Demesnedenoir

I am finally to the point where I believe I can write 90% of the time, but I still have those times where I think: yeah, I love it, but no one else will. And I figure anyone who says they like it are just being nice. Even when my editor says it's her favorite she's ever worked on in the genre...

Legolas and Gimli do Broadway? I'm in. That could be one helluva vaudeville act too. I don't read many shorts myself, but I don't give 5 pages automatically to a novel anyhow. Whatever it is for me, it'd probably be the same no matter the length of the work. Get my attention with story and...

And the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is "based on a true story". Inspired by might be the better term.

One major trick is for a negotiated ending to make sense. Most times I've seen this from unpub'd writers it came off pitiably hokey. This works in some smaller scale situations, but in a nation vs nation situation (in particular if the cultures have nothing in common) peace is mostly negotiated...

This is fun to chat about, but rather pointless really, heh heh. But... Further down another rabbit hole, I would go with this: Sci-fantasy (maybe fantastic science would work too): Science gets the credit, but no way in hell it's actually real... Spiderman. Although it's better just called...

it could be, depends on how you use the term superhuman. Heroic fantasy could also work, it all depends.

Lots of superhuman also goes into sci-fantasy. Actually, it's easiest to classify most all super hero as sci-fantasy.

Different people certainly define low and high a little different. GoT is best to simply call Epic, because high and low are up for debate, LOL. High and low magic could be separated from high and low fantasy too, LOL. Hello, this is the rabbit hole calling. Okay, crawling into the rabbit's...

Which simply falls intot he who knows what continuation. Super hero (of any time period setting) is still super hero, which is a version or branch of alt-Earth. Super Man is Alt-Earth. Bat Man's Gotham... Alt-Earth. Except there is the more excepted designation of super hero.

Beowulf is fantasy, but it's like any Greek story, it's mythological fantasy. Being set in what is ostensibly the real world does not make it not a fantasy. All super hero junk is fantasy at a generic level, but it has a more refined genre designation. It is better to accept that buttloads of...

Huge fuzzy area, which is why it's great to have F and SF together, LOL. It marries reader expectations when browsing. I don't have an issue with no magic books being called fantasy in a broad sense (lots of horror could also be fantasy), because in a greater since, all fiction is "fantasy" but...

Hmm, I didn't argue against a magicless world, I just said I probably wouldn't read it. Write whatever you want, it is completely valid. Now you are writing alternate Earth/history, which is a particular form of fantasy, no undead (I think that's wise with this additional knowledge of alt...

Well, there is a point where tech becomes "magic". Sci-fantasy sort of stuff does this. But that doesn't appear the direction the story is going. I think the nanotech could work for undead if not called undead, LOL. In the OP's case, assuming there isn't some super important need to explain the...

No, I did not immediately think that. Undead means magic of a sort period, period. From your description I wouldn't any sort of magician. Liche magicians are D&D crapola anyhow. I don't buy any psuedo-science stuff to explain the undead. Of course you can use sciency explanations.. FV's idea of...

My entertainment value. Point might not be the right word, there well could be a point, but I like an element of magic and mystical... although it wouldn't necessarily have to be "real" it could be a belief. I've a finite time remaining and I am ridiculously picky on my reading list. If its...