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Making Magic - Research is your Friend

 MakingMAGICResearch is yourFriend ~ and your worst Nightmare.NOT for LiteRPG novelists!What kind of research have you done inMagic and Mythology to create the spiritual backgroundfor your brand of magic? This is absolutely necessary to make anyform of magic not only logically operable, but feel Real and possiblyeven familiar to the readers.However, lets start this with a few simple

Types of Adult Fiction

  "When does writing go from being adult writing to straight up porn? I want to write something for the story, but including sexual scenes without making it porn. Any tips?"  -- Wants to Upgrade from Young Adult into Mature Adult Okay, first we need to do some defining, plus a few technical details. The Different Types of Adult FictionAccording to the publishing industry

The Curse of Run-On Dialogue

 The Curse ofRun-On DialogueAKA;Narration Run Amok----- Original Message ----- [What should I do] about splitting[dialogue] paragraphs that are [all] by the same character? I usuallydo it for emphasis or to show that there's a brief pause betweenthem. Like when a character suddenly changes his/her topic. -- MyCharacters Won't Shut Up! --Paragraphing IS supposed to be divided

When & How to SMUT

 When & How to SMUTDISCLAIMER: As a multi-published author, I have been taught some fairly rigid rules on what is publishable and what is not. If my rather straight-laced (and occasionally snotty,) advice does not suit your creative style, by all means, IGNORE IT. Less competition for me. :)​----- Original Message -----I'd like to know how some smut writers write their smut, ...how

The Erotic Thesaurus

 Art by Luis RoyoThe Original Erotic Thesaurus by Morgan Hawke When you need just the right words to describe the Pleasure. Appetite - craving, demand, gluttony,

Just say NO to Author Intrusion

 Just say NO toAuthor Intrusion:Also known as:Breaking the FourthWall.The Fourth Wall is the Audience. Every time the Author addresses their story's audience --their Readers-- during the story, they are violating the fourth dimension, or wall, of that story's Reality. Those violations are known as: Author Intrusions. Author Intrusions show up as little comments that express the author's

Writing Horror that's actually Scary.

  Art by Kopie Writing Horror that's actually Scary.I ran across 'quite' an informative little video series. This
particular set is on making Horror games, movies, and stories.
Let's Gripe about Horrorhttps://vimeo.com/295183486

I suggest grabbing a notebook and completely ignoring the movie in favor
of just listening to the voice-over. Expect to use that Pause button a
lot. He covers a lot

Plotting Your Own Story Structures

I recently came across an article you wrote about the Gothic story
structure. ... Your article was incredibly
straight forward and informative. Do you have any resources you would recommend for
aspiring ... authors to ensure they are hitting all
the wickets?  -- J 

 

Sadly, there's not a whole lot out there on the
different types of Plotting Structures. Most of what is available is

From Idea to STORY

Moonfish by SnowSkadi



----- Original Message -----
How do you develop an idea? How do
you come up with the details behind stories? Do you get them from
reading books? Do you get them from modern concepts? Or do they just
come to you (if so, lucky you XD)? How do you develop the world in which
it takes place? People or settings first? Do you include
cults/religions/mass groups? How do

Same old Sex?

Same old, same old...SEX?


----- Original Message -----
...I've reviewed three erotica anthologies in the past few months, published by well-known houses, full of tales by well-known authors... They all used the same sentence structures, the same imagery, the same tone, as a million other stories I'd read before.--Bored with Erotica

The key phrase here is:


They all used the same sentence