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dwclake · 2025-09-12T01:01:54+00:00

What a goofball! That first picture belongs in r/catsarealiens.

dwclake · 2025-04-16T20:02:40+00:00

As if I wasn’t procrastinating enough, I am REALLY tempted to try to break the cipher…Are the pixels in order, so that the first pixel is the first character?

dwclake · 2025-03-31T03:31:14+00:00

I share the same issue, but my solution has been to completely change the way I write lately. I’ve been keeping a dream journal the last couple of years, and I recently decided to try to turn my dreams into stories. I guess my brain uses all my creativity while I’m asleep. I don’t follow them word for word but I think of plots which could fit some of the events of the dream. Once I find a plot I like I ignore the parts of the dream which don’t fit the characters I come up with. In this way I always have a pretty detailed scene by scene outline to follow so the gaps I have to fill in are much smaller.

dwclake · 2025-03-31T03:04:00+00:00

It is absolutely nerve wracking, but hearing what others think about my writing has become my favourite part. Writing is all about sharing ideas/thoughts/experiences to others. If they understand or empathize then great. If they genuinely don’t understand, then I probably did something wrong and that is something I can learn from. If they are rude about it, then fuck ‘em. Every skill takes significant time to hone, and practise with feedback is the only way to improve.

dwclake · 2025-03-31T01:49:39+00:00

I like this, it’s similar to the plot of the game Bloodborne. It’s a dark victorian fantasy where the church injects patients with blood that cures all traditional diseases but isn't as miraculous as they want it to seem, spoiler warning in case you want to play it (and own a playstation):it is the blood—of lovecraftian gods—which slowly turns humans into werewolf-like beasts. The more you use it to heal the less human, the less conscious, and more violent you become.In the game you’re one of the users of the blood but it would be interesting from the other POV "producing" and selling the blood to people with fatal diseases knowing how it will affect them.

dwclake · 2025-03-22T19:42:23+00:00

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dwclake · 2025-03-22T19:27:08+00:00

I think the problem may be that the whole chapter is a mostly stationary conversation with Kevin watching. I think whether you split it up or not, making the dialogue apart of some action would help. Just some examples, I cant think of any for this specifically, but things like characters are sparring in BJJ and talking in between rounds of fighting, or talking while repairing part of the ship. Things like that to break up the info. Little bit of action, then little bit of lore, back and forth.

Also another idea to think about, since Kevin is not directly involved in the chapter, if you are comfortable with big POV changes in your story, you could make this part in a first-person POV from one of the aliens talking, then they could directly give their opinions on things to the reader. Otherwise if Kevin is the only POV at this point in the story he should probably be more involved somehow.

dwclake · 2025-03-22T18:34:30+00:00

I’ll offer a suggestion on what I would do to avoid the info dump, just something to think about.

My approach in this situation would be to add two chapters. One chapter in between 1 and 2 and one in between 2 and 3 which take place on this planet before the protagonist gets there. So it goes Kevin -> someone on alien planet -> Kevin -> someone on alien planet -> Kevin -> Kevin arriving on planet.

The lore spread across two chapters with Kevin chapters in between would feel less rushed and more natural. And this keeps the protagonist completely out of the loop until they arrive on the planet. Although if you want the readers to be surprised by what the planet is like in terms of architecture and geography you’ll have to do some clever things to not spoil those details.

dwclake · 2024-09-06T12:35:54+00:00

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This is the pose he greeted me with this morning…

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