RightHandElf

I know it's 2026 now, and racism is considered very politically incorrect.

But if I set the story back to the early 2000s, when racism was a real issue, and I created a white boy who falls in love with a black girl, prejudiced against girls due to his family background, yet irresistibly attracted to her, verbally expressing discrimination while actively pursuing her, would people find such a character unlikeable?

I came across these rules for the 69th (nice) time and decided to be the first to share them with all of you.

1. Your characters don't have to win and, in fact, shouldn't.

2. Don't just write another self-insert love triangle please for the love of god.

3. I know writers who use theme and they're all cowards.

4. Actions have consequences.

5. Kill your darlings. Violently.

6. Make your character good at something worthless like Nintendo or writing.

7. No pantsing.

8. Don't waste time trying to make it good. It's not gonna be good.

9. When you're stuck, make a list of things that wouldn't happen. Then pick the least-bad one and go with that.

10. Sacrifice the stories you love on the

I need a writing buddy to brainstorm! My work is about a group of kids in a small southern town. They go an adventures through the day and shenanigans at night through the power of dreams! Their bodies never leave their beds as they explore dreamland. Full of colorful creatures and home to their imaginary friends! It’s TV MA

I was thinking about writing a character with super speed, but I hit a snag regarding jumping. I saw two (seemingly equally valid) ways of viewing the situation:

• They jump with double velocity and normal gravity (from an outside frame of reference)

• They jump with normal velocity and half gravity (from their frame of reference)

Doing the math for these, double velocity results in four times the jump height while half gravity results in two times the jump height. I was already typing up this post when it occurred to me that gravity has two inverse time units, suggesting that I should maybe be quartering gravity instead of halving it like I had assumed. This results in four times the jum

The book says very little about running summoned horrors, mainly that they "are intensely powerful and highly resistant to harm". Saying "highly resistant" instead of "impervious" or "invulnerable" suggests that they can be "killed", but it would probably be an 8-clock or even a series of clocks (with the default effect potentially being "none"). Outside of combat, it seems like they would just be environmental hazards. Interesting, mobile environmental hazards, sure, but still just environmental hazards. I can't really see people negotiating with them. You run away from them, you try to work around them, or you try very hard to kill them. Is that all there is to them?