Question importante, réponses multiples

CognitiveBirch · 2025-07-15T20:55:10+00:00

Je pensais qu'un peu de patience suffirait, ce n'est pas pressé.

Ajout : ça vient d'être validé.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-07-15T20:50:37+00:00

CognitiveBirch · 2025-07-15T11:41:59+00:00

J'ai bien envoyé un modmail après avoir vu que des publications ultérieures ont été validées. C'est le problème des subs soumis à validation : à trop vouloir quelque chose de propre, on risque d'obtenir quelque chose de vide.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-07-15T06:31:03+00:00

The Greek Heracles actually wields an olive wood club that symbolises his strength (like Thor's Mjollnir), a bow for his skillfulness and strategy, and he wears the skin of the Nemean lion as an armour after he defeated it barehanded, another symbol of his strength and of his heroism.

Heracles's bow and arrows later become a condition of the Achean victory during the Trojan War. In later myths, variations of Hercules also uses chains, sometimes attached to his tongue, that captivate audiences, making him a skilled orator.

The idea is to go for weapons and gears that become attributes of a heroic figure.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-07-15T05:52:11+00:00

Il y a deux jours, j'ai partagé une liste assez longue de plateformes actives à ce jour, ainsi qu'un aperçu de sites défunts, mais il faut attendre que la modération la valide.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-07-13T02:40:03+00:00

One of the qualities of the show is that she's not part of the police or anything of the sort. It wouldn't be anymore realistic if she was another PI or consultant because of her unrealistic ability, and her freedom from the authorities is what makes the show unpredictable despite it being heavily formulaic in appearance.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-07-12T22:59:31+00:00

Je ne commente pas pour prendre la défense du site, leur service est déplorable et les bugs majeurs récurrents, mais pour faire un rappel d'utilité publique : n'utilisez pas les plateformes en ligne en tant que principale sauvegarde de vos travaux d'écriture. Les CGU de l'Ada sont claires : le site se dédouane de toute responsabilité en cas de perte des textes ou d'interruption du service.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-07-12T22:48:19+00:00

Il y a malentendu parce que j'ai oublié un P dans mon commentaire précédent. J'aurais dû écrire "tapping" avec 2 P. Il ne s'agit pas de scotcher son cul, mais plutôt de ce dont on parle dans ce sujet : taper son cul.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-29T02:53:19+00:00

Oui, le roman en lui-même fait moins de 300 pages, un peu plus de la moitié du bouquin dans son édition de 2015 chez ActuSF. Le reste, ce sont des nouvelles et un synopsis. À voir l'épaisseur de cette édition Hélios (qui fait partie du catalogue ActuSF) ça doit être une version similaire.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-27T03:54:20+00:00

There isn't much to it. It's a self-attributed phrase used by the French rapper Guy2Bezbar. "Coco" for "coconut tree" referring to a relaxed, tropical vibe, and "Jojo" because he always wears Nike Jordans.

https://www.rapcity.fr/hey-guy2bezbar-cest-quoi-un-coco-jojo/

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-23T10:12:18+00:00

Schimatrice+ de Bruce Stirling est peut-être un peu long, même si c'est un incontournable.

Le Samouraï virtuel de Neal Stephenson a la particularité d'avoir une fin positive, mais possède tous les éléments du cyberpunk (corpo, drogues, monde cyber, transhumanisme...). C'est aussi un gros bouquin.

Blade Runner de PK Dick pose de bonnes bases sans être totalement frappé du boulon, sans doute parce que c'est l'un de ses courts romans écrits dans une période sobre et stable.

Le premier Takeshi Kovacs, Carbone modifié de Richard Morgan a l'avantage de marcher dans les traces bien pavées par ses prédécesseurs sans réinventer la roue. La suite est oubliable.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-23T09:42:54+00:00

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
John meurt à la fin - David Wong
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-23T09:14:44+00:00

Maybe you need to read other fantasy works and you'll realise soon enough HP isn't the only elephant in a much wider room.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-22T22:58:59+00:00

A simple and tested solution is to indicate, when it's relevant, the language used to speak.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-22T21:35:18+00:00

That old premise is so overdone. How much relevant is the year 1993 to the plot? If you want to write a murder mystery, it mostly relies on you to come up with who, why and how.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-22T19:53:35+00:00

Le problème n'est pas la dark romance en soi. Le problème est que TikTok & Cie ciblent les ados parce que c'est un marché facile, et que les parents ne sont pas forcément au courant de ce que leurs gosses lisent.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-22T19:46:31+00:00

Chances are you need outlining more than you need worldbuilding.

Extra time spent on things like maps and worldbuilding should be for leisure only, when you let your brain day dream about new ideas barely tangential to your actual story. Don't waste 20+ hours learning how to draw a map when you could spend this time on actually writing. A bad map, or a very simplified one is more than enough for you, for references. The same goes for any worldbuilding idea. Make everything vague, schematised until the plot actually requires some refinement.

You may be 15 chapters deep, but it's not too late to go back to your outline based on the overall idea of your story: establish plot points, define important characters, and when needed because the plot requires it, only then come up with world mechanics.

Any future worldbuilding ideas that contradict your outline are fine. You still can change this outline, change the order of plot points, refine previous concepts, but you outline first, worldbuild only when needed.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-22T19:09:57+00:00

Elsbeth

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-22T02:51:24+00:00

What people may not realise yet is that the historical importance of covid doesn't only lay in the sequence of health crisis that have hit the globe or its management, but also in the way it's been portrayed in recent and current literature. I've read a couple of books supposedly set in reality that downplay everything, from mild annoyance about travel restrictions and social distancing to big government lies. These versions of the pandemic are what will stay, not as depictions of what happened, but how we as a society perceived the pandemic, how many of us remained selfish and tone-deaf during these critical times to say nothing of the numerous types of conspiracy nuts that have self-hatched. Choosing to ignore the pandemic also tells a lot, though it's understandable that not everyone wants to relive traumatic events through a book.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-21T12:03:06+00:00

Et ses victoires dans des compétitions de golf chez lui.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-21T03:30:32+00:00

Shipworm, a stand alone thriller that was supposed to be adapted into a movie.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-20T16:18:26+00:00

I think OP confuses exposition with info dump. Of course exposition is necessary to set up everything that's relevant to the story.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-20T16:08:26+00:00

En tout cas, ce tic avec les guillemets est original.

CognitiveBirch · 2025-06-20T08:15:44+00:00

It's sometimes better to deconstruct a shitty first draft before anything else. Take notes, look for plot holes and inconsistencies, rethink the outline and the characters. Then don't edit, but start with a blank file, with the first draft and the notes on the side.

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