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Bioshock Infinite had a pretty good female character. ((Lol. I don't post here for two weeks and come in and randomly say something about a video game, sorry :P ))

The awesomeness of my writing comes in short bursts. I'll have one scene that is just AMAZING, but all the stuff in between is just uggghh. I got quite a lot of great advice on the critiques section a few weeks back, and I've really been improving on writing the filler stuff recently. The...

There is something people critical of Heart of Darkness always miss. Sure, by today's standards it would be considered racist. But the entire point of the book is the brutality of Man, and the mistreatment/"dehumanization" of the Africans is used as an example of this brutality. Also, another...

It for sure doesn't make me want to scrap what I've written. If I see something awesome in a book, I'll mark the place and use it for inspiration later.

Nah, I love a good, well thought out infodump. Alastair Reynolds fan, here :o. What I really don't like is when a description is too vague for me to put an acurate image in my head. I would much rather the author infodump than not describe enough.

I LOVE describing planets. I like describing their surface and the view from orbit, sometimes so much that I have to stop myself and let the character see some of the sights through his eyes lol. I go into a crazy amount of detail for even the most minor worlds, going as far as to specify the...

The final line of something I am writing will go something like this, several thousand years after the events of the story, a father and son are sitting in a field. Of course this would probably be drawn out to a page in length, but I can't wait to finally write this scene lol. The boy...

My sci-fi stories almost read like realistic fiction at times, I've spent so much time on my settings. For each individual planet in my universe I've probably spent an hour or two thinking about, and I sort of store those ideas in my head until an opportunity to use the setting presents itself...

I have more fun world building than character creating. I start with the world and an idea of the plot, then a character sort of develops as the story goes on. And to the OP, yeah Alastair Reynolds focusses on world building a lot, and has a ton of infodumps, but I like that kind of thing. If Al...

My internet was down yesterday and it is just now the 15th today, so I'm still going to go ahead and send in my request if that's alright. I wrote it up and everything already. If not, I understand.

Aye, I get that you think space exploration is important, but a little optimism is good for everyone lol. And I do have quite a bit of (quite justified) faith in SpaceX. When rich people have money and want to do something, they generally give it their very best shot. And yes, I think...

Really, I see no problem to what you are saying. Sure, of course there is a chance that nobody will be able to pull any of this private space business off the ground, but SpaceX is well on it's way, and can build things much faster than NASA. The next Dragon flight is next month, by the way. If...

The whole reusable rocket thing that Spacex is working on just might be that breakthrough everyone is looking for. Look up "grasshopper" if you haven't seen what I am talking about. No company would invest that much in such a large prototype if they weren't planning on implementing the...

And that is where people like Elon Musk come in. Space exploration will be profitable within our lifetimes most likely because of companies like Spacex. Also Elon has stated that he started Spacex with the goal in mind of making Humanity a multi-planet species, so he definitely doesn't only care...

I could see it. I live in Northwest Arkansas, which is somewhat more liberal than the surrounding area, but there are a lot of folks around here who look down on homosexuality, and I'd imagine that in stupider parts of the state it is much worse.

Well, I see it this way. Thoughout human history we have been gradually more reliant and interconnected to each other. We went from nomads to small city states to countries of millions of people. If we continue this trend, I think it is feasible for a planet to be controlled by one government or...

Alright, awesome! I'll send in my request here in the next day or so.

Meh, anything that alters my thought process (Alcohol and other drugs) doesn't interest me. I am in the middle of a block right now, but I think it is because schoolwork is basically all-consuming in my life right now, so I think (hope) my creativity will come back some weekend soon.

I always thought it would becool to have a post apocalyptic story set during this time, like after an asteroid impact. It would be cool to see how the uber-religious people of the time reacted to such an event. It would be like the Plauge X 1000.

@Venusian Broon There are a lot of little errors here that I need to go back in fix, lol thanks for pointing those out. The airlock scene in particular, though I think in one of the dialogue corrections I wrote the exact same thing in the first place :confused:. By the way, I copied and pasted...