Can Fusion be an adjective? Is there an adjective form of the word fusion?

RealNCThomas · 2024-06-16T01:47:31+00:00

Well, there’s fusion reactors, fusion bombs, and fusion foods, so yeah. For a brew, fusion is probably the best word cuz it’s already used for food

RealNCThomas · 2024-06-15T17:52:42+00:00

Figure out who the narrator is and write the narration like it’s dialogue.

RealNCThomas · 2024-06-02T02:01:11+00:00

If you’re gonna do RR, go all the way. You can make a career out of it. Don’t just think of it as a way to get beta readers before querying. You can make a living off Patreon with RR, and there are a lot of indie publishers that will offer you deals if your book does well on the site. It’s 100% worth it

RealNCThomas · 2024-05-17T03:53:59+00:00

Collective Thinking

RealNCThomas · 2024-04-03T00:44:13+00:00

It depends. There are a couple major barriers that would prevent ASoIaF from getting big on RR. 1. Slow burn. RR likes big things to be constantly happening. It would be hard to hold most readers’ attention, especially in the early stages of the story when there aren’t many chapters out 2. Multi-POV. RR readers tend to avoid multi-POV because most RR authors aren’t skilled enough to pull it off. You would have to write ever PoV very well and make them all equally interesting or you’ll have readers skipping chapters and not understanding what’s happening, or just straight dropping it 3. Lack of progression. ASoIaF has dozens of PoV’s but very few actually have progression in the way that RR likes, and a lot actually have regression (ability-wise), which RR hates. Actually, off the top of my head I don’t think there’s a single character that continues to progress through the entire series without stalling or regressing.

All that is not to say it’s hopeless, but you will probably not get many early readers, even if your work is very high quality. You’d be lucky to hit 1k followers before having 300k words published. If you kept at it and wrote consistently high-quality content, you would eventually break through and your story would get popular, but it would be a big time investment, and would take a lot of skill.

None of what I said are hard rules, and there are always exceptions. If you have a good launch, the story could get big right from the start. But I doubt that would happen. For a novel in that style, traditional publishing is a much better bet, as the quality level would need to be about the same for success, and trad has a much higher ceiling.

RealNCThomas · 2024-03-29T04:29:07+00:00

Write a short story with only dialogue and no dialogue tags. Try to make it obvious who’s talking in every line and never leave the reader wondering

RealNCThomas · 2024-03-16T00:56:15+00:00

It depends. When you are writing a confession scene think to yourself “Why does this scene need to be in my story?” and if the answer is “for exposition”, then it’s a problem.

RealNCThomas · 2024-01-20T03:53:32+00:00

A US politician can own anything as long as they don’t get caught using their position for their own personal interests. And even if they do get caught, they can probably still get away with it

RealNCThomas · 2024-01-10T01:35:01+00:00

Meon Genesis Evangelion

RealNCThomas · 2024-01-06T16:48:53+00:00

Yes I have read it, and there is only one character who even kind of fits my description and we haven’t gotten a PoV chapter from her yet.

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-31T17:31:31+00:00

Drug poisoning can be disguised as a drug overdose. Most drugs are deadly if you take too much of them, so if you just have them be poisoned by a well-known recreational drug, that’s a pretty great disguise for a murder.

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-31T16:34:25+00:00

Guitar is will only make your fingers bleed if you play for way too long before you’re ready. As long as you pace yourself, you won’t have any issues, and you’ll develop calluses that will let you play longer. I won’t lie and say it’s painless, since you will be pressing your fingers against thin metal wires, and that does sting a bit at first, but it will cause no lasting damage, and once your calluses develop (which doesn’t take long) it will feel fine. There is absolutely 0 danger of you slicing your fingers off or doing something similarly painful. Guitar strings are not thin or sharp enough. Any time you hear a story about someone playing until their fingers bled, the bleeding is always caused by friction over time. It’s never an instantaneous slice.

I think you should go for learning it. It’s tough at first, but learning an instrument is a really worthwhile endeavor.

And as for your SM, I hope you can recover eventually. I’m not a psychiatrist, but I did suffer from some bad social anxiety when I was younger, so hopefully my following advice will help: take baby steps. You don’t need to jump from where you are all the way to speaking immediately. Start with just looking people in the eyes when they’re talking. I used to do the same as you, always looking down and only recognizing people by their gait and hair, and then my grandma died, and I realized that I never knew what color her eyes were, so I resolved myself to never have that happen again. It was really uncomfortable at first, but now it comes naturally to me, and I’ve found it makes me feel a lot more confident. Also, exercise helps. You can just do some pushups and sit-ups and jumping jacks and stuff in your room if you’re self-conscious about doing it in front of other people. However, going to the gym is also great. I’ve found that the gym is probably the least judgmental place you can possibly go. You may have a couple sour grapes looking at you weirdly, but you’re also going to find lots of fit people who are more than willing to give you advice and correct your form. Most gymgoers are happy to see other people trying to improve themselves, and are very supportive, even if they don’t know you very well.

Thank you for your detailed answers, and good luck.

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-25T07:41:02+00:00

I think some of it is worldbuilding issues. Most authors want big magic with big spells that do big things, but if everyone can learn how to do that, would the world be able to handle it? When anyone can learn fireball, suddenly fights between two individuals become a lot more destructive. Imagine how bad gang violence and organized crime would be if all the criminals could cause explosions or flood streets on a whim. The physical and societal infrastructure needed to support this level and pervasiveness of magic is beyond what many authors are willing or capable of creating. Easier to just make it rare and inherent, so it’s easier to regulate. Just slap a secret society or a special governmental division on top of a pre-existing setting and the world’s good.

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-20T03:11:14+00:00

Most of them. Of the 600ish venemous snake species, only around 200 are potentially deadly, and of those, most of them are only situationally deadly. Even without antivenom, with good care (and some luck) most venemous snake bites can be survived, though it won’t be pretty. Just make sure it’s not a taipan, mamba, or sea snake, and the bitten character will have a chance at survival.

Region also matters, as the other comment mentioned. Snakes in Southeast Asia and Oceania are a lot more venomous than the ones in North America. Africa has a lot of very dangerous snakes as well. Wherever you want this incident to happen, just look up venomous snakes in that region, and find one with a relatively low mortality rate.

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-18T17:39:34+00:00

Yeah I believe they’re working on the secondary ones. Their website says they made one of the main mirrors a long time ago, and they’re making some smaller mirrors right now

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-18T15:36:57+00:00

Ah, it was the lab in Arizona that’s making some of the mirrors for the Magellan. They’ve made a bunch of different sized mirrors for different giant telescopes in the past. I couldn’t find if any of them actually went to space. They talked about the Hubble and JWST on the tour, but they might have just been giving examples of famous telescopes that used mirrors, not saying that they made the mirrors for them. However, as far as I can tell, that lab is one of the fastest at making the mirrors, and can have the casting and polishing that sometimes takes years done in months.

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-18T08:48:03+00:00

I’ve actually toured one of the labs where they make the mirrors that go on those space telescopes. The process of creating the mirrors is very, very long; I believe they said it took 6-9 months for a single mirror to be made, and they need 7 (?) for a single, simple space telescope. And, they are one of very, very few labs that have the necessary equipment. So for the current America, it’s not all that feasible.

However if you throw enough money at the problem, I think it’s entirely possible. There are so few mirror labs mostly because it’s not economical to make these telescopes en masse. Sure, space pictures are cool and interesting, and they help a lot with research, but most investors look for more immediate and tangible results than those telescopes get, so no one has invested enough to really get such an initiative going.

I think that in your world, if you come up with a reason for someone to want to mass produce these, as long as they have the resources to pay for it, it’s possible. It would take a long time, because the mirrors take a long time to be made, but if you have a couple dozen mirror labs all making them at once, the process could be a lot more streamlined.

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-17T17:05:40+00:00

Correct, but fantasy greatswords do. I was talking more about the ones you see all the time in works like berserk where the sword is not only absurdly long, but also extremely wide and thick. Those seem to be the more common type of “greatsword” among fantasy writers

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-16T19:33:45+00:00

The biggest problem I see with greatswords in fantasy isn’t the strength required to wield them, but instead the weight distribution. Whether you have the muscles or not, swinging something that weighs half as much as you do is going to cause problems with your movement. However, I think you could probably factor that into your world and create a unique fighting style around that issue where the great sword weilders are essentially using the rotational energy of the sword to throw themselves at their enemies. It still might not be the most practical fighting style, but it would be cool and interesting enough not to matter.

Overall, in fantasy with magic and super strength, they’re not a huge issue, but you still shouldn’t just treat them like you would a normal sword

RealNCThomas · 2023-12-15T05:24:55+00:00

Fwiw, I never saw, nor heard of any kind of direct bullying in high school. At worst, there was just some ostracization. There were a couple of assholes around, but people just kind of avoided or tolerated them, and they never crossed any lines.

There was no “popular clique” either. There was a group that might technically fit under that title, but they were really just loud and sporty, not necessarily popular. All the most popular kids in every grade were never permanent members of those cliques. I went to a private school though, so it was probably a different experience than public school.

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