Mary Sue is a term originating in fan fiction, for a phenomenon that has probably existed since a Cro-Magnon teenager scratched a stick figure single-handedly slaying mammoths on a cave wall. The above is a short list of stuff you can do with your characters to avoid the Mary Sue syndrome: that is, the creation […]
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This is probably a far more effective recruiting video than anything they’ve got out there now. Enjoy.
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I mean, it’s like, we come from the same planet and similiar cultures and everything. After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations. I mean, who would have guessed that the number one reason people have
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Another night, another attempt at making some kind of stupidly unnecessary move as a symbol of my independence, another four hours in an emergency room. I had a lot of time to think about my foolish symbols of independence, the unnecessary treks I make and tasks I perform in order to prove I’m not dependent
8 + 8 would be 16, not 32. Which would mean one unit of insulin, not two. This is why you should never work and shoot up at the same time…
I’ve been living and breathing God’s War edits for the last week and subsisting primarily on Chipotle burritoes and working internet-distraction-free at the local Books&Co. Seriously, living and breathing edits. I write work-related stuff all day and do edits on my own time, come home, work out, bike to Chipotle, bike to Books&Co and write
Man, I wanted to love this book. Really, really wanted to love this book. I hadn’t read any of Buckell’s stuff before, but I’d heard about it; it sounded like a great concept: space opera with a cast of characters with Caribbean heritage. I mean, dreadlocks and big guns and ships with awesome names like
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