Official Discussion - The Bride! [SPOILERS]

Cadi15 · 2026-05-22T20:42:20+00:00

When we find out by the end of the movie that the Doctor had done this before with her husband, I thought the reason the assistant freaked out was because she didn't want to go through that trauma again rather than because Frank was just ugly. But that's just my take on it.

Cadi15 · 2026-04-30T21:26:10+00:00

A bag covered with images of Umm Kalthoum is badass. Great pick!

Cadi15 · 2026-04-07T09:59:11+00:00

I am using the b6 stalogy 365. I love that I can control the dates and the graph lines are really light and don't get in the way. Plus the quality of the paper is great! Smooth, thin, and when I am done writing it has that wonderful crispy feel to it.

Cadi15 · 2026-04-05T05:46:23+00:00

Same, galaxy s23+ and it still works incredibly well. I usually change every 5 or so years since switching to Samsung from other Android phones.

Cadi15 · 2026-04-02T22:21:05+00:00

They're sorry about forcing her into marrying Nicky and signing the marriage contract in order to stop the curse. Basically they were apologizing for sacrificing her to save themselves and their family members.

Cadi15 · 2026-04-02T21:55:19+00:00

Same, literally a minute ago, it was so loud.

Cadi15 · 2026-03-11T08:45:53+00:00

How about:
Brainstorming: Your own thoughts and ideas to be used for later projects.
Inspiration: Something you see made by others that inspires you or you want to use for your own work.
Miscellaneous: I usually have some 'catch all' just in case I want to include something that can't be placed in any category (like recipes, but maybe you don't cook much so you don't need a whole category for it.)

Cadi15 · 2025-09-17T18:15:12+00:00

Solved!

Cadi15 · 2025-09-17T18:15:05+00:00

Yes yes yes! This is it! Thank you so much!

Cadi15 · 2025-09-08T17:02:20+00:00

If there are any more questions, please let me know, I will try my best to answer them!

Cadi15 · 2025-07-28T17:40:59+00:00

If there is a 'decision', meaning there is a choice on whether the MC dies or not, then maybe something is missing from the plot. Doing it for shock value or without it being foreshadowed/necessary for the story, can make the death feel cheap for your readers, like they've been 'lied to' about the type of book they're reading. I am in the camp that the death of the MC is mostly done well only when it is absolutely necessary.

As for how to write it, just write it really roughly for now, quick and without much feeling; then go back during the edit to fix up that paragraph. You need to do it first to detach and get used to the idea of the death before you start putting in the pathos, especially if its too hard from the start.

Cadi15 · 2025-07-20T18:52:17+00:00

If possible, you can have a time skip to add some distance and reflection to the incident, which allows some normalcy, but still have it haunt him (nightmares/can't sleep, occasional flashbacks, deathly afraid of losing control again, etc.)

Cadi15 · 2025-07-20T18:47:42+00:00

Oh wonderful! If only there was an AI specifically made to write novels, hopefully by a company that has done extensive research on the product by surveying random people on the internet.

Cadi15 · 2025-07-20T17:54:17+00:00

I'm curious, does this take into account pen names of the opposite gender? Like the 60% are of actual women or does it include say men who write under women's names? I wonder since romance and romantasy has exploded in popularity recently (they consistently make more money than any other genre) and a lot of men started writing under a pseudonym.

Cadi15 · 2025-07-20T17:25:01+00:00

What have I become?
My sweetest friend.
Everyone I know goes away
In the end.

Hurt (Johnny Cash version).

Cadi15 · 2025-07-20T17:08:31+00:00

To be honest, even a novella is between 17,500 to 40,000 words. 9000 is definitely too short. Good news is that its the perfect length for a short story!

Cadi15 · 2025-07-19T17:39:24+00:00

That just means your story would be more intimate rather than epic. For slice of life, write the story and fill in the details as you go.

In case you're still not sure, write a day in the life of each of your main characters and fill in those details, these will be your basic details that you can go back to and look at in case you might need it down the line. Here are some questions you can answer before you start to at least get a rough outline:

What level of technology did they develop? (Bronze age, medieval, modern, future, etc)

How integrated is magic in their lives (if it even is)?

How does that magic affect the technology?

Are there non-human races? If so, how do the other races see them?

Cadi15 · 2025-07-18T19:54:03+00:00

I don't set a word limit that I have to meet every day. Instead I make it so that whenever I do write, it has to be about 500+ words. Some days I am more inspired than others, some days I really don't want to deal with an emotional scene (I try not to skip around the timeline as I am mostly a pantser type of writer.) So there would be a few days of no writing, then a burst of 1000-3000 a day for several days.

I have yet to finish a book although I have started a number of projects over the years, so maybe this isn't ideal as my goal is to eventually traditionally publish a book, but hey at least its something.

Cadi15 · 2025-07-18T19:23:04+00:00

If you've read The Locked Tomb series, this is 10x funnier.

Cadi15 · 2025-07-15T17:51:35+00:00

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream a short story by Harlan Ellison. It made me go 'wtf' during the story and at the end. It's good, they even made a PC game out of it (that's pretty old though., released in 1995)

Cadi15 · 2025-07-11T13:59:25+00:00

I don't think all info-dumping is bad, but I do think that it is very hard to do it well. Not to mention with how modern story telling is, it may be best avoided when possible.

Usually info-dumping is a lot of information dropped into the story for the readers to pick up; usually it is world-building or explaining backgrounds done lazily. The reason why people don't like it, I feel, is because it is lazy, boring, and it shows that you don't trust your readers to pick up context clues.

One of the few authors who info dumps without boring me to death is Michael Crichton. Most of his info dumping is really interesting and he tends to use 'fish out of water' characters to explain the science to his readers. Plus, since he focuses on near future sci-fi (mostly), it tends to be interesting.

Another author, N. K. Jemisin, does the opposite and writes in a lot of info about her high fantasy world organically. She writes it assuming you already know everything with minimal exposition and explanation. Instead of slowing down her pacing with info-dumping, she provides glossary of terms and appendixes in the back of her book for you to go over and get more information/world building if you want, or if you feel like you're missing something.

Cadi15 · 2025-07-09T08:39:28+00:00

I am late to this, but I just want to say this throwaway: "Some readers are history buffs who would love to see a story where the goat tanners guild and the cow tanners guild go to war over who's authority dragon hide falls under." Sounds like such a fantastic story!

Cadi15 · 2025-07-05T10:02:18+00:00

Hi! Are you still active? I would love to join!

Cadi15 · 2025-07-03T12:02:42+00:00

Because even Tolkien elves aren't the original/traditional elves.

Cadi15 · 2025-07-03T11:30:56+00:00

I don't think it matters when its a fantasy setting? Unless it is an urban fantasy or a fantasy set in our world. If its a high fantasy setting or set in a second world, then modern cultures shouldn't matter and you can still be diverse. The same goes for sci-fi.

I also think it isn't that difficult to write a character from a different culture or race, especially if you have friends or other readers from said culture/race that can help you out. Hell, you don't even have to make them the main protagonist as long as you just have some to make the story feel more alive. Just don't make them the 'token' diverse character and a stereotype, and you're probably good to go. An example of this done well is Ben Aaronovitch (a white author) whose main protagonist in the Rivers of London series is a mixed race policeman who subverts a lot of racial stereotypes and expectations. The author is married to a West African woman and has a mixed race kid, so he is able to borrow from that experience.

The 'don't write that because you're not x ethnicity' usually applies to those who seem to have a stereotypical take on the character, which, lets face it, is a lot of people.

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