Recent content by Surad

Actually yes, The Jungle would be perfect. not only because of the poverty and unsanitary conditions that are depicted there, but also because the main characters in that setting all actually work in a meat packaging factory. I've begun writing a short story with them in it, and the first...

When thinking of fantasy execution/torture, I did come up with at least two kinds. The first is a form of pain gas that doesn't kill someone, but just causes incredible pain that's unaffected by any known painkiller. I described it as feeling like having a hill of termites course through our...

The music I put on is dependent more on the characters I'm writing about. I actually try pretty hard to find appropriate theme songs for each character.

This is my third attempt at writing a reply. Hopefully it won't get lost! Yeah, that's something I was planning on doing. Not only showing a dead body, but just to show how dangerous and corrupt the whole place is, the body doesn't get removed for days, is stripped of not only shoes, but...

Hey everyone, So... due to the fact that I'm back in school (sorta) and I don't have as much time for writing... and my main novel is still lagging unfortunately due to an issue with my computer. It died and I am forced to use a laptop which is terribly uncomfortable to write on (I'm writing...

I want to create an entire library of quasi-military terms and slang based on real military terms. I just don't know where to start. :)

Internal logic is paramount. Without it, nothing will make sense. Even supposedly random comedy like youtube poops and Monty Python have some semblance of a thread of internal logic that binds everything together.

Welcome aboard the writer express! :D

The thing about drug use and doping is that it is not a new thing. Ever since Ancient Greece, athletes there have tried to gain an edge over their competition by doing something that gave them an advantage, whether it was praying or taking some kind of performance enhancers of the time. The...

I didn't invent much proverbs or sayings, but I do have some made up so far. "He's got the scars." This means his courage is beyond question and been proven many times. "Take the heat off our skins" is either something done to actually cool a place down (like turn on an air conditioner) or one...

I remember while reading Wheel of Time, characters from all over were constantly playing Stones, which was a variant of Go. It would be interesting to make multiple board games for people to play. You'd need something like go or chess, but why not simpler games like nine-men-morris? NMM is an...

Finding a name for my world was tough, and I'm still not completely settled on it, but for the time being, I refer to it as the World of Ordea. Why Ordea? I don't even remember how I came up with it. But my biggest question is finding the name for my series of novels/novellas/short stories. I...

Yeah, sports can be elevated to a near-religion status thing. I was in Paris AND London during the 1998 World Cup. It was unbelievable. Not only was it everywhere, every single time England had any kind of movement towards the cup, people would be outside bars drinking and chanting for England...

You just gave me an idea for my race of humanoid cat people... interesting.

I'm going to be honest and say this. I'm not a sports person. I love to exercise and I do martial arts (non-competitive, but I guess I could get into MMA if I wanted), but when it comes to sports, it's a rare thing that I take interest in them. There was that one exception when I went to a...