Recent content by WooHooMan

A street corner so teeming with life that the cold concrete can't keep the ivy from creeping-up the skyscraper walls - nourished by the water running through the canal-streets. I think that's all the description I would use. I like to keep area descriptions short. I think you should really...

Whenever a prophecy appeared in any of my stories, it was usually fabricated as a plan to get something done. When you wanted a hero to take-up the sword in a thousand years, you find an "oracle" and have them go around saying that they'll be a chosen one in a thousand years. There's never any...

You could go further and say there was some kind of apocalypse and the current setting is the result of civilization "restarting". 3150's sound good for that.

Every kind. I don't see much of a difference between writing any of them. Writing love is like writing anything character-related: there's motivation for it, development, payoff, a resolution and so on.

My perspective is that there are a handful of existential questions that people dedicate certain periods of their lives to answering. Coming-of-age mostly deals with the questions of "who am I? Who can I be? Can I make it in the world?". Adulthood is probably more "can I make my life count...

I don't think I've ever really gotten rid of a fully-formed (for lack of a better term) character. I usually merge characters when I need to thin-out the cast. I think there's some benefits to that method.

I'm definitely a theme guy more often than not. So, I guess I'll ramble a bit about a theme in a story I was working on but ditched... I thought it would be a nice idea to do something with families. That seems to be something that people could latch on to really well. The most important...

You can't avoid being offensive because you can't really control how people will react. So just do what works for the story. My best advice would be to decide on what is it about China you want to take (government structure, aesthetics, etc.) and then make-up the rest. It's not a cut-and-paste...

I don't want to pat myself on the back or whatever but I think my settings would hold-up well to this kind of examination. It helps that my most in-depth setting is only about 400 square miles. That alone clears-up like half of this person's criticisms. Granted, I think all this boils down to...

My most commonly-used (and Earth-like) setting is nestled in the scales of a gigantic snake. It's very Discworld-like. The setting that is most different from Earth has mountains that are smoother and more curved than our mountains, places with "thick air" that one could swim in, "Earth-bound...

I'm pretty sure I've seen both of these before. Maybe several times. The "God's dictatorship" thing goes back to Gnosticism. An idea I've had (but never went with) is to make Heaven like Brave New World where everyone is happy and "equal" but only because they are kept in ignorance...

Well, clearly. Any kind of meta-narrative that attempts to explain the evolution of society is bound to be some kind of generalization. I didn't think that needed to be said. When I said the beginning is "anarchy", I was using that in the classical definition of the word: social disorder...

Wrong, governments tend to evolve roughly the same. In political theory, it is believed that a nation follows the following life cycle: 1) monarchy, 2) aristocracy and 3) democracy. In nature, you have anarchy. The natural tendency of humans towards hierarchy, kinship and competition leads to...

This is such a grandiose sales pitch - I mean, post that I feel compelled to reply. Probably not. I find that artists and especially amateur artists love embracing new mediums and techniques. Also, the internet's "revolution" of media is well underway. Where have you been? Before the...

I would recommend looking-up Walter Yates. In his poetry, he had three characters who represented different views on love. Aedh is lovelorn and kind of masochistic. His famously says to his lady "I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly...