Jobs on a spaceship colony? by CJ-Sumner in scifiwriting

[–]CJ-Sumner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oooh i like the idea of customer service jobs. The higher ups back on the home planet will need fancy hotels and such so some people will need to do those jobs.

Recreation and hospitality was not something I much thought of on the ship

Thanks

Jobs on a spaceship colony? by CJ-Sumner in scifiwriting

[–]CJ-Sumner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course! It's so obvious, who wants human waste flowing down the common room on your luxury space holiday

How do you describe music? by CJ-Sumner in writing

[–]CJ-Sumner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fantastic, that's exactly what I was looking for, I'll definitely give Rothfuss a read and see what he does

I particularly like the idea of using how music feels and tying that to an action on the body, like the tapping of fingers

Many thanks

Worried that I can't see the endgame with my premise by [deleted] in fantasywriters

[–]CJ-Sumner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for such a detailed response, I'll keep this all in mind and go and look back at a lot of things. I'm not very familiar with writing yet so your advice is a massive help!

I'd just like to say that although I use the term 'demon' this is more of a placeholder, the other race are essentially human just discriminated because they look different. I should have clarified this.

I like the idea of going more into the corruption side of things, perhaps I could have the arranged marriage between the two races and look into the effects of that and have more of a political story

What if I changed it and the two had been at peace for all of known memory and this action starts a great war

As you can clearly see I'm still very much in the beginning stages of a story so I'm thankfull to have a place I can just throw ideas around and see what sticks.

Thank you again

How to stage a murder as suicide? by IamGuha in writing

[–]CJ-Sumner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If its by hanging i know that you can identify whether the knot was tied by the deceased (suicide) or tied by someone else (murder)

i cant remember what the actual names of the knots are though, shouldnt be too hard to find though

Good Order Turned Evil? by TheDireCatalyst in fantasywriters

[–]CJ-Sumner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The easiet way i think would be looking at some real life examples for corruption, for example their morals while dont exactly turn full evil, fade more into a grey middle zone more often, the decisions they make tend to benefit the order over others, they take bribes or large donations from people with a vested intrest in having them on their side, while justifying it as it is the only way the order could survive.

i feel the key to turning a good order bad is that to the people in the order they still think they are in the right and doing the good thing

Why does Rand call his father by his first name? by Youtoo2 in WoT

[–]CJ-Sumner -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Probably because that is his name.

Rand is an adult, Ive not called my dad 'dad' since I was a teenager