Mr. Misting

In the first song in Hamilton, it said Ruined, and in the next line a voice spoke to him. Obviously a misborn reference.

This is making me think. I generally prefer 3rd, but maybe that's just what I most often read. I would never put a book down, based on perspective--for example, I just finished A Walk to Remember, and while the first person was jarring, I really liked the personal touch it had by the end. And I guess my favorite book, Name of the Wind is also first person... I guess I have less of an opinion either way than I thought.

I'm not quite sure I want to commit to a ten month thing. I have a pretty long focus on something, but I don't know if I want to keep doing this is basically a year. Maybe length of story and end date are decided by individually by each group?

Sure, start date seems good to me. As long as whoever my group is good with my maybe 3000 words a week, I'd love to do this

I'd interested but aren't sure how much time I have. Like, what do you mean by a book? 40K? 100K? But theoretically, I would be interested in all three themes

I'm so excessively excited for the books to reach my house and me to waste three days memorizing everything. I just hope I can kidnap my friends long enough they get excited. And the only sad part is how I won't be able to reach the beautiful allomantic skill tree tables until I get back from my LDS mission. *sIgH*, the sacrifice is real.

*Pulls out little stick to go with big stick* There must be balance in all things. I am the avatar stick guy, master of all four elements sized sticks. @Vyzkel Willbender, your stick is powerless against my stick bending. Is there a ginger group or something of the sort we can declare war on?

I am solidly in the brown hair camp but am, likewise to strmblsd, here to be amused by blonde jokes.

Ah, but there is: zinc feruchemy. Assuming you've been in a near comatose state for years storing mental speed, or are able to compound, someone could store enough for some ridiculously fast computation. By duralumin flaring the compounded mental speed, firing the bullet, and then activating steel while the duralumin is still burning, you could get to the point where you could reasonably affect the bullet.

I'm a high school writer trying trying to improve my craft and enjoy the process. I've written a lot of short stories, some of which are pretty decent, and a book and a half, the half having been dropped indefinitely. When it comes to writing, I typically include elements of fantasy, and usually gravitate towards dark topics, either disturbing in violence or horror, or just plain ol' depressing. (This is amusing, because I can't stand any horror or serious violence on screen). Some of my favorite writers and works include Dan Wells, Terry Pratchett, the Kingkiller Chronicles, Will Wight, Good Omens, and of course Brandon Sanderson. I recently finished Project Hail Mary, which was an incredible read.

Props on putting this out there! I have similar comments to Silk and Mandamon. It's hard to follow the plot, as I don't understand much of the worldbuilding. When it comes to characters, I didn't feel a strong attachment to either of them. I was too busy trying to understand what was happening to care about what it meant to the characters. I think the dropping of some names could be cool, as long as the reader understands enough for the current scene to make sense. Your prose is really cool and descriptive. You had some really novel descriptions, such as "brushed straight out of him..." Sometimes though it can be a little confusing, especially when it is describing some fantasy thing I don't understand. Pg 5: I thought for a second that the eldar was another character.

Your mom didn't like how you forgot to clean up the bodies. Twelve and a half slightly damp ping pong balls

Another somewhat good thing I have written! The idea of it was to explore a character that I would use in a series, but I'll probably never get around to doing that. Warning: a bit o' murder.

What do you think about when you're thought spiraling? My severed left foot

My big goal this summer is to write a full novel, and I'm theoretically doing this by trying to hit a specific word count each day. I don't really have writers block, because I have a good idea of each next part of the story, I'm just finding it hard to get my word count or actually write during the time I've kind of set aside for writing. What tips do you guys have for motivating yourselves to hit a word count each day, and making sure you get around to doing it?

How many children could you beat in a fight? What color is the inside of your bones? What book are you reading right now? What's your best hot take? What book, movie, show, podcast, etc. do you think more people should consume?

I agree with this argument full heartedly. I left the shard a year and a half ago, in large part because I felt I wasn’t as cool. I would be posting similar things to others, and getting less rep, and feeling like I had less important or witty things to say. I’ve never won the day, but I seems like I can look at anyone who’s spent time on the shard, and see they have. It feels like I’m doing something wrong. Part of me leaving was that I didn’t have my crap together, life wise. And I’d think I care less about rep than I did then. But it can still hurt. I worry rep can feel like barrier to entry for newer sharders. I see some new people who gets crazy amounts of rep, but for most, it’s easy to look at the leaderboards and see your absence. I don’t know if completely scrapping rep is the move as I agree with Treamayne that rep can have value, and I really like some of the proposed options. Another option could be cutting win the day and leaderboards but keeping ranks. Then hide the number of reps someone has, so someone can see how experienced someone is, without feeling the number gap. And at that point, you could even have rank be based on some mix of rep and days spent, allowing for different kinds of contributions to rank people up. There are a lot of options of ways to improve. But I think it’s definitely important to discuss.

You only live once, you should totally eat the cookie. Also, welcome to the shard! How long have you been painting miniatures?

This was epic! I'm a major fan of the world building. It's really cool how you name everything based on flowers, like with evergreen, which I thought that was rather clever. As the story continued, I was worried there wouldn't be much going on, but the plot twist zombie attack was awesome. Good job, that's some sick worldbuilding and good story. Near the start you said you needed advice. What sort of advice do you need? What sort of work do you plan to do on the story? And also, for future story posting, it's common practice to the text in a spoiler box, to make the page easier to read.

You're the reason they had to up the number of fools from 3. When Shallan draws an improved version of you, the page is blank. When Hoid met you he'd have to retire, because the biggest joke of the cosmere was already created.

11. People who don't care

Thank you much! I don't have any intention to continue writing in this world, but I'm really glad you enjoyed it. Thank you also! I've never heard of, or read that series. Would you recommend it? Also, the plants are fascinating as an concept. Yeah, paradise would probably have to seem good in my story, or it wouldn't work, but I certainly thought about if I could pervert the concept. If I ever wanted to write more, I'd probably do it where the world is "perfect", whatever that means, and the humans makes it a crappy place to live by being the worst and whatnot. Because what's even the point of speculative fiction if everyone's not depressed and or dead by the end?

A very late thanks Edema! Also, I wrote another thing, that's probably marginally decent! I'm a big fan of it, even if it did end up kind of being a story that exists to support cool worldbuilding. Any thoughts on how to improve would be welcomed.

This is a fascinating series of questions. I just read a nonfiction article that kind of skirted around cancer, so I'm about to make a couple of uneducated claims. I would think that the spikes would negate cancer, if the spike is placed over it. Yes, the spike would make the body grow around it differently, and would prevent any harm that it would cause. But I doubt it was prevent other harm, such as cancer, which is not inherently damaging, or caused by the spike. Spiking the tumor out of a person feels terribly challenging. It's magic, so I don't see why you couldn't, but it feels like it would require an advanced practitioner. I don't think cancer would be read as inherently corrupt. It's obviously detrimental and can kill humans, buts it's just a type of cell growth, which happens all the time. I'm not sure how adding investiture to a tumor would change anything. Do we have an example of investiture making body parts into more separate beings? Like, if I spiked my hand and put in a bunch of investiture, I can't see why it would become separate. It's still me, just as a spiked tumor would be. Also, to the questionable science claims, I read something along the lines that cancer sometimes gets in the blood stream or whatever, but in some way it migrates. So even if you get the main source, other tumors could still grow. On the topic of spiritual ideals and cancer, I'm not sure how effective cosmere healing would be against cancer. We know that when someone has internalized an injury, it changes how they view themselves, and they can no longer be healed (at least by radiants). But again, cancer is just a certain form of growth. And I would imagine a teenage radiant could grow acne, which is certainly not helpful growth. So how would that be any different for cancer? Again, with Lift, she is very actively opposed to growing up, but her fancy progression surge isn't helping, even if how she wants to grow is opposed to how she is growing. Is cancer immune to cosmere healing?

In regards to your member title, who is dying in a cage of smoke and needles? What is the most impressive animal you could beat in a cage match? Coolest way to die?