Not at all. That's fine. Perhaps it's my fault for not making myself clearer. I'm both pleased and partly worried about my few sentences and random comment having escalated into this. Didn't mean to alienate anyone. Let me explain myself a bit better hoping that maybe what I intended to come through...

Ever since people like Anita Sarkeesian and Patricia Hernandez came around, talking about sexism, especially if your opinion differs from the trend, has become fucking impossible. Everyone just says "shut up no u I'm right". And then the "you're a man" card gets pulled. Every ti...

^_^ And yet, as I have stated at the VERY beginning of this that 14+ years ago things were SO MUCH worse. Considering that we have seen so much progress you think people should shut up now and just turn a blind eye because you think the situation cannot be improved upon? I'm glad that the rest of th...

Garrett - my target audience for my stories is high schoolers. Are you going to tell me that I do not bare some responsibility as the owner of my creation about what I place into my story? If I write a story condoning rape, are you going to say that I can hide behind the cover "oh, but my targe...

14+ years ago it was a really heightened issue for me. At one point I remember that for a forum signature I literally put "YES I am a female". There was even one situation where I had a site staff member working for me for six months and a casual comment from me revealed to him my gender. ...

I like it when I visit a place hoping for happy vibes, wanting to enjoy fifteen minutes of something fun before I rush off to bed but instead get slammed with something unpleasant and now I'm going to bed pissed off. On a more personal note, and the reason I was coming on here in the first place: My...

I need to really dig into Xillia at some point. The battle system in Graces f spoiled me though, I can't really get into the other Tales game as much anymore. Haha, I can agree with that. Going from playing the fast paced, brilliant Graces F battle system to something more structured can be difficu...

Playing Xillia 2. My god, I thought I was addicted to Xillia but it's just been incredible so far and I'm only in about 10 hours or so. They took all of my favorite things from Xillia and made it better and added in even more incredible things. I'm going to die happy today. I requested PTO just to p...

Holy ravioli that is good! I'd definitely keep reading after that! Only one issue comes to mind, really. I'd like some more descriptions of appearances. Nothing too detailed of course, but more of an idea of what these people are supposed to look like. Details are something I already know needs add...

Alright, it's unedited but in case anyone feels like reading, a little info to let me know general opinions would be nice. I'm going to start editing this thing and I want to know as much as I can about any mistakes that I might not be picking up on. If the pacing is off, not enough character dev, e...

Considering what I'm going through with my story, and now needing to edit and starting to have a lot of self doubts... this was something that I needed to rekindle myself: https://twitter.com/DisneyPixar/status/500703539258085378 Only because if these people, whose stories I treasure, think that the...

And I am done. My final draft. At 124,364 words. Now... the long road of editing awaits. I'm not worried about the word count (remember, for my story it needs to be between 80,000-120,000 words for anyone to even consider it for a first time writer). I have a lot of editing and cleaning and things a...

Also, hoping someone can help me out here, does anyone know a good writing guide with tips and strategy for writing fighting scenes in fantasy? I need a lot of work on this portion and I sometimes wonder if I'm missing something. :\ I'm going to open up a few books of mine and go through them, but t...

Don't hit backspace! Save it in your ideas folder! I have an entire binder in my closet where I keep scrapped ideas, and some of them are still salvageable. Others, however...yeah I'll keep them anyway. But yeah, maybe it's because I hate throwing anything away, but I really, really don't like gett...

LOL at #6. :3 That's my favorite. - I can't tell you how many times my story has altered from it's original idea (#2) just to follow this ethic. (One of my characters ended up getting stabbed and though the idea of the whole scene was trashed, the event stuck and it actually turned into a major plot...