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Its defintely better to err on the side of caution. Its a heavy topic.

There’s nothing wrong with being optimistic. Stranger shit has happened in reality. And pessimism isn’t all that its cracked up to be.Even in darker settings.

Dont forget Lima Syndrome. Where the captor falls for their captive. Or dependency or other sycophantic behavior. Which further muddies the swamp water.

Dont forget Lima Syndrome. Where the captor falls for their captive. Or dependency or other sycophantic behavior. Which further muddies the swamp water.

Scat and anything involving minors. Everything else is fair game.

<3 Essentially yes. When you got long lived races with millenia+ lifespans in a world with peoples with normal life spans
It might seem insane but a little war here and there is just good neighborly manners.

Spinoff standalones are good fodder for halloween/holiday stories.   Origin stories do let me explore elements in my universe that would otherwise be untouched.  (And it’s really good for comprehensive understanding, even for the author.)

Sometimes there doesn’t need to be one.
In my experience. You can hint, throw comments and other snippets to create a bigger back story.
How do they react? How do things affect the characters. Do certain things remind them? You can create an effective character purely on how does the character react to the world around them.
 
 

Villains have so much fun
It gets more realistic, IMO, when everybody feels they are doing the right thing, especially when some characters think the ends justify the means.

Leaving breadcrumbs is fun but dangerous.  You have to ask. WHo am I leaving these crumbs for? SOmething that will be apparent to people from one cultural or educational background. may not be apparent to another.  The problem is, you don’t want to hint too much since people with certain knowledge of genre conventions run the risk of figuring things out first.
The best clues, are the ones the reader picks up the second time they read. They will ideally remark. “ohhhhh so that’s why showering in spite of the watter being cold. It was to wash off the blood and mud.” Once your story is resolved and you’ve basically completed your final draft. Go back and sprinkle some details here and there. Not additional details but rather details that one could otherwise infer from what was already there.

Antagonists are in many ways the easier to create than protagonists. They laugh,cry and generally do everything the protagonists do. 
The who what when and why generally take care of the rest.
 
 

Don’t overthink it. Stick to your lore.
an ancient Chinese inspired culture is one of the easier ones. Since China had an incredible amount of dynasties and cities.
Gods are harder. I’d start top down with a pantheon, then the hierarchy etc. It also depends on what kinda god feel you are going for. Are they like the greeks flawed but bringing order to the universe. Animal headed or more fantasy D&D based.
Naming places are easier than you give credit.
The misty mountains are indeed misty. Clown cave is indeed filled with clowns. Simplicity at times is better than wit.

Oh good, I’m in good company.
Oceania I can write about forever. There’s alot of history there. As is expected when characters have incredible longevity. Character conflicts can last for millennia.
Since one of the main characters is 102,50 year old.

Kinda by accident, in how I’ve gone about my original universe, I think I’ve got enough to last a lifetime of writing.  If I had stuck to just the main story, it’d expire faster, however, I’ve been doing a lot of backstories instead, exploring some of the elements and mechanisms within the universe before I embark on the main story.  Even still, with how it’s set up, there’s opportunities for future battles, detective series, a “reality” like story (ie, cops), more character developments, etc. 
I like Star Trek, however, most of the series were rather formulaic, cookie cutter, with a set patterns of episodes, warping to the next planet/star-system to start fresh.   When DS9 started introducing some continuity between shows, it became a lot more interesting.  I haven’t seen the latest (Discovery), however, the earlier shows fell into the same series of ruts.
-- DP

Found this gems
https://www.quora.com/What-are-slang-terms-euphemisms-for-a-penis
 
http://bit.ly/14hM1V4

I've done it.
If you've prepared like you should before anal sex, there won't be anything but semen coming out.
That said: Prepare properly.

I knew you were doing it wrong. You gotta learn how to alternate hands.

That seems to be how it is for me at times, climb into bed, and suddenly, my mind’s racing.  I’ll get up, write it down (because it just came up with a good idea), climb back into bed, only to come up with another idea….  Or, wake up early, mind’s racing, so I can’t get myself to go back to bed.  I do try carrying a notebook around, just to jot down ideas when they do come.

Every so often my muse and I get along and I can write for a while. Other times, the muse might as well be the sun shining through the blinds while I’m trying to sleep after a sleepless insomniac night. “Go away. We’ll play later!”

If only inspiration didn’t have a habit of hitting me right when I’m dead tired and finally resolving to sleep for a while..

indeed it is. For muses are fickle things
 

indeed it is. For muses are fickle things
 

In the end, that’s a good reason, better than money (for those lucky few).

You know, I’ve always looked to Sheffield’s industrial past and thought there must be a good supernatural horror story or two lurking there. Sheffield’s heart is a dark, dead space filled with crumbling red brick buildings blackened with grime, and smashed factory windows. And it’ll remain like that forever, no matter how much “regeneration” they engage in. It’s our history. All those souls lost to industry. And through the middle of it all, making it possible, the river Don. Without the river, there’d have been no industrialisation of Sheffield. If that river was conscious, and it could speak, it would hate all of us. Without a doubt.
I mean, I won’t write that, but that’s the angle I’ll probably take. I love your idea! It’s the resentment of the natural world, personified in a single instance between a river and a man.
If effluent, toxic chemicals and waste from manufacturing processes can hurt and kill a river, I’m sure there’s an equivalent for a man. The body horror I’m evisaging is kind of taking you literally. I mean, sticks, stones and riverbed mud in odd places would be incredibly painful, perhaps even fatal. And especially if they just kept appearing. How long would this man endure something like that before he went along to the doctor? Would he? How would he hide it? When exactly would he get past the point of entitlement (once he realised what was happening to him) and decide that it was time to appease whatever it was he’d angered? Would it have a chance in hell of working? And that’s just first thoughts. Lots of evil potential! *rubs hands together*

Haha… seems to me there’d be a whole lot of scope for genuine body horror in this one. Similar theme, completely different approach to the other one I wrote. If I ever get done with GoT, and no one else has taken it, I might keep this in mind.

Oh I like sound words like cooed. Of course if every bit of dialogue is tagged with them and every action is responded with them, it’ll get distracting. Personally, I probably overuse them a touch and don’t use the he said/she said nearly enough to make the tags functional yet disappeary, but that’s my jam. 

In my humble opinion, cooed and any other sound word should be used when they have the most impact. When no other word would suffice to paint the scene the way you see it in your head. A baby falls off a table or something, the mother rushes to it and coos to try to comfort it. And well yelps, screams, moans, groans, sighs, squeaks, shrieks, are usually best reserved for pain, puns, and naughtiness, and those are really the only sound words I can think of off the top of my head, because that’s just the kinda person I am.