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Author Craft / Re: So...Help.
« on: September 18, 2008, 03:17:49 AM »
So, the poor man is beset by Tulpas. 
More, and expand it.
More, and expand it.
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Author Craft / Re: Has this been done?!
« on: September 08, 2008, 09:38:47 PM »hm, I mean an agency who's job is specifically to cover up other people's traces. like "cleaners".
@THETA: Yes, sure. I just want to know what is out there so that I don't copy something 100%. I mean, the thing is not set in the US and will be a comic, so I guess it's novel in a way, but I would like to know other takes on it.
In the comic that spawned the two movies, the Men In Black also looked into the supernatural occurances too. There is the rpg, Bureau 13, that spawned some books. I think the rpg Chill also had a government agency that took care of supernatural thingies. In the novel that the movie Vampire$, there was an agency, backed by the Catholic Church, that went after vampires. There is the Initative in the Whedonverse. The Laundry, from the Jennifer Morgue, by Charles Stross.
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Author Craft / Re: Has this been done?!
« on: September 06, 2008, 04:02:19 PM »
Its touched on a bit in The Man With the Golden Torque, but Simon R. Green.
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Author Craft / Re: Looking for thoughts to break a stalemate
« on: July 31, 2008, 02:40:35 AM »
You could also take the tac that we were canon fodder for another race. They were wiped out, and the reminants of their cannon fodder, our ancestors, were imprisioned on earth.
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Author Craft / Re: Novel Ideas
« on: July 27, 2008, 05:24:10 AM »
You can find all manner of ideas from eveyday life. I live near a railroad. I could come up with a dozen ideas from that.
Take a situation, say the power going out, and build a story from that. Power outages are good stuff to build a post-apocalyptic story around.
Do you have kids, or at least younger nieces and nephews? Write a story about how they find out that the Fair Folk aren't nice? Or maybe, on of them finds out that they have a magical talent?
You just have to look around.
Take a situation, say the power going out, and build a story from that. Power outages are good stuff to build a post-apocalyptic story around.
Do you have kids, or at least younger nieces and nephews? Write a story about how they find out that the Fair Folk aren't nice? Or maybe, on of them finds out that they have a magical talent?
You just have to look around.
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Display Case / Re: Things Harry Dresden Is No Longer Allowed to Do
« on: July 07, 2008, 04:36:11 AM »
I am no longer allowed to tell the younger Carpenter kids that Toot-Toot is Tinkerbell's older brother.
-Even if he finds it funny.
-Even if he finds it funny.
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Author Craft / Re: What Causes Endless Night? Anyone know?
« on: June 18, 2008, 03:32:47 AM »
It could be an anti-light ward. Another suggestion, someone has made a perfect model of the city, and is using a version of contagion/sympathy to put up a never ending night.
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Author Craft / Re: is this idea worth a try?
« on: June 02, 2008, 04:46:03 AM »
The wrap around story could be about a new tour guide who, during training, finds out what is really going on.
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Author Craft / Re: Any thoughts on planning out a paranormal mystery?
« on: May 31, 2008, 03:09:47 AM »
Is the protagonist a psychic? A wizard/sorceror? Someone who just attracts the paranormal? A vanilla human who found out about how the world really is?
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Display Case / Re: Things Harry Dresden Is No Longer Allowed to Do
« on: May 29, 2008, 05:09:24 PM »
I will never quote Zevon's Werewolves of London around Billy or Georgia, again.
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Author Craft / Re: Any thoughts on planning out a paranormal mystery?
« on: May 27, 2008, 04:24:58 AM »
How paranormal?
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Author Craft / Re: Derivative Plots?
« on: May 09, 2008, 05:32:29 PM »
All the good stories are remade every so often. That's how come stories of King Arthur are still told today.
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Author Craft / Re: For Christian readers or any interested...
« on: May 04, 2008, 07:28:46 PM »
What would make interesting is that you make the roommate a Muslim.
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Author Craft / Re: Good Magic References
« on: May 03, 2008, 08:38:11 PM »
You could also call magic reality hacking, or quantum manipulation.