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    Word of the Day: unusual words you may not have heard of

    That could be the first line of a poem.
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    Word of the Day: unusual words you may not have heard of

    dysailurophilic - the propensity to dislike cats
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    Word of the Day: unusual words you may not have heard of

    hystricine - pertaining to porcupines
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    Word of the Day: unusual words you may not have heard of

    Harlequinade - Harlequinade - Wikipedia
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    What Are Your Choices for Worst Comedy Films Of All Time?

    Anything with the following actors: Will Ferrel, Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller. Some of these people literally make my gorge rise.
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    Disappointing reads.

    The Expanse, after a few episodes became unwatchable to me.
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    Too obscure?

    The Pythagorean/Ptolemaic thingy doesn't seem obscure to me but the noir voice with short, choppy sentences actually does. That's just a personal taste thing though. A lot of people enjoy a voice like that.
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    What kind of fantasy/sci-fi world do you wish to live in?

    I'd like to live in the world of my WIP, a dieselpunk Roman empire.
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    Weird News, Marine Corp physically loses 135 million dollar jet after pilot bails out

    Hacked by the Communist Chinese. They're landing it and giggling right now.
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    Thinking of killing off my MC half way through the tale

    Abandoning books and the authors one feels betrayed by isn't anything new either. I gave up on watching Game of Thrones after a few seasons. It would've been the same reading the books. After a while, the feeling was literal disgust. I was not willing to waste another instant of consciousness...
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    Fat euphemisms..

    The Girls' Bestie
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    Plottr

    I still haven't done much with it. I've been writing a dieselpunk-ish series backwards and I've been busy editing volume 1. I have been playing with Plottr, putting in a new beginning and some scene tweakage for Volume 2 and while the first few times I opened it, I thought it was unwieldly and...
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    Word of the Day: unusual words you may not have heard of

    disembiggenation the act of unembiggening something formerly embiggened.
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    Moorcock's exemplarily bad essay on Tolkien

    I don't think Moorcock's essay deserves anything better.
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    Trying to avoid my main lady character becoming a "Mary Sue"

    Besides - on the day they start bleating and carping, you'll know that they've been reading your work.
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    Trying to avoid my main lady character becoming a "Mary Sue"

    Is it worth giving loudmouths veto power over your writing before they've even had the chance to read it?
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    Create a Magic System

    We can help by asking you some questions: What do you need it to do? What limits do you need it to have? Which people can use it? Elite only? Can the Working Class use it? Can it be industriality? What is its cost to the world or to the practitioner? What equipment does need and how is that...
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    Any good?

    I think some things become parodies of themselves and when that happens, spoofability just isn't there any more.
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    Any good?

    Or maybe how an artist evolves?
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