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Site Suggestions & Support / Custom titles?
« on: August 06, 2009, 05:04:13 PM »
Would it be possible to grant users to give themselves custom titles after a certain amount of posts? I mean..."Wizard" is fine, but I like change every so often.

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Darkest Hours / For those of you who liked this book...
« on: September 06, 2008, 07:45:52 AM »
You might want to check out Spider-Man: The Other. I just got done reading it a couple of hours ago. It's not Morlun heavy, but it's a bit of a sequel to Darkest Hour as far as Morlun is related. And it gives you an idea of how big of a bastard Morlun is.

I haven't read the Spidey comics that first have Morlun that Spider-man barely escapes from (which is described in The Darkest Hour), but I recommend The Other.

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Author Craft / Language question
« on: September 02, 2008, 06:21:01 PM »
Okay, I'm writing a book based on one of my comics and a couple of characters are aliens (space, not illegal.) So my question is: how do I mention they are talking in another language? Due to how the story is told, the other language will be "translated" to English. So they're talking in their language, but you read it as English. When I do it in my comics, I put the words in "<", but I didn't know if I could do that for a book.

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Author Craft / Yay! I got my first rejection letter.
« on: August 17, 2008, 05:08:09 PM »
I know, it sounds odd that I'm being cheerful about getting rejected, but hear me out: I sent out about 7 in the past month and only one of the 7 came back, which means that at least SOMEONE is paying attention to me. That wasn't even the oldest query letter I sent out, either.

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Author Craft / Using personality disorders.
« on: April 22, 2008, 08:26:33 PM »
I've been writing about someone with a Multiple Personality Disorder (or whatever it's called now). The original character is the dominant personality, but she's the secondary one. (As in the second character was the personality she was born with). During the first character's (second personality) outings she got addicted to nicotine. My question is: does this affect the second personality, too? I was thinking it was about the chemicals more than the personalities themselves. So like when the second personality is out and about, she has withdrawls and doesn't know why.

Does anyone know if this is common? I'm trying to be as accurate as I can.

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Author Craft / Submitting a series as a first.
« on: March 06, 2008, 08:19:51 PM »
I wrote the first book of my Felicity Stone series (a YA Urban Fantasy series) and I've started on my second, so I was wondering if anyone knew how to submit this? I mean, essentially the book COULD stand alone, but is meant to be the first of a series, so I was wondering if I submit it and my plans for the next books, or should I just do the book, or should I submit the book plus the outline of the series and the first couple of chapters of the second?  I'm excited that I finished a book, and of the ones I've done, this is by far the longest, only at 250 pages, though. (50 more pages than my last attempted finished book.) It's weighing in at 50k works.

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Author Craft / Comics
« on: August 12, 2007, 09:48:34 PM »
I was just wondering if anyone knew how you'd go about getting into writing comics. What I want to do is an Ultimate Marvel series only briefly touched on in one of the Spider-man volumes. I had an idea of how to turn Deadpool around and make an Ultimate Deadpool series, but 1) I don't know how to write for a comic and 2) I have no contacts within Marvel.

So does anyone know?

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Darkest Hours / Morlun
« on: August 01, 2007, 05:24:33 AM »
Okay, I'm kind of confused about something. In The Darkest Hour, Spidey says that he killed Morlun by injecting himself with radioactive material and letting Morlun drain him and then Morlun's guy shot him in the chest when he was weakened, but I read on Wikipedia that it happened differently in the comic. I read that Morlun ripped Spidey's eye out and when he was in the hospital, Morlun went after Mary Jane and Peter got pissed so he mutated into a giant spider and killed Morlun and then died himself only to be born from a cocoon.

So then which is true? I thought they were both Amazing Spider-man.

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Author Craft / Attachment to characters.
« on: July 17, 2007, 11:54:03 PM »
Do you guys get attached to characters so much that you have a hard time hurting them or killing them? I was writing a novella based on the comic in my signature and in the novella, this character named Erin breathes fire. Even though she's a dragon, her people haven't breathed fire in millions of years. The fire rendered her mute and burned out her mouth and throat and after I wrote that part, I'm having a hard time going back to the much lighter comic version of her. I feel like I've wronged her.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Author Craft / Choose how the story goes.
« on: May 29, 2007, 10:12:00 PM »
I hope this is the right place for this, but I decided to try a game I stole borrowed from another forum. The other forum has pictures, but I'm too lazy to do that, so I'm doing it words. Basically...I'm the storyteller and I'll tell you a bit of the story and you tell me what you want to happen or think should happen and I'll figure out which one I can use best and add that to my story. If I have a couple of good ones, then I'll put them into the story. Let's begin.

It was another boring day at home. I couldn't go anywhere because it was raining. I sighed, turning on my TV. The satellite feed was bad, but I tried the best I could to watch. My TV told me that I had lost the signal, so I went onto my roof to try and fix the satellite. All of a sudden, I felt a surge pass through my body. I was thrown from the roof, but I never hit the ground.

What happens next?

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