Let's discuss what guy even wants that many sandwiches. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner? For realz? You don't, know you, want to go out for sushi, mexican, or thai once and a while?

But sometimes, gender isn't (and shouldn't be) arbitrary. And neither should race or ethnicity. There's a difference between tokenism and adding in genuine diversity. The big concern is backstory — how much does the gender affect the character's past? This can be 'not a lot, maybe some issues' to 'that's the entire…

I'm not the only Friends hater! Yay.

Supernatural: it literally has 9 lives now.

Join the fandom. We've got man candy and monsters.

There's a lot of YA bashing going on in the comments. A bad book doesn't automatically equal 'YA book'. Not all YA books are bad. Some are quite good (but marketed poorly).

We're hard-wired to do in-group, out-group sorting. This isn't what bothers me here. It's that this book is so obviously pandering to a host of fantasy trends it's absurd. You've got to earn the loyalty of fans in the first book with an interesting character. That's why mega series are so freaking popular — the fans…

I think a film that did fantasy really well was Stardust. Granted, they had great source material to work with, but this is a case where I felt the film was actually better than the book. It had solid world building and never hid it's awesome fantasy moments.

You have to establish some credibility, somewhere along the line, to get an agent. Not necessarily a previously published book, but something like a platform, short stories, MFA, blogging, editing, ect. And agents are going to push the publisher to give their author/book the biggest advance — and an established author…

You have to establish some credibility, somewhere along the line, to get an agent. Not necessarily a previously published book, but something like a platform, short stories, MFA, blogging, editing, ect. And agents are going to push the publisher to give their author/book the biggest advance — and an established author…

Reading your work aloud — either to yourself or with other people — is the best way to spot weird phrase turns. You also catch when you make logic jumps in your story.

You're writing should be clear. That's the golden rule of the editing and style classes I've taken. If your writing is clear and concise, all the better.

Robert Birdratheon

Crater Lake from Bend, OR is my favorite. Seriously, the Western US is FULL of Juniper trees.

If you read his story telling circle blog posts, it'll make sense.

One of my casting fantasies is Jeff Bridges in a Terry Pratchett movie. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's going to be this movie.

Dolphins are really intelligent. I'm not surprised they share the same empathetic and vicious characteristics as humans. From working in a nursing home and hospitals, animal therapy really boosts patients' moods. But the thing is, it's not animal specific — as long as the animal is well-trained and sensitized for this…

The Iron Islands and the Dorne plotlines are going to get shaved down with many characters being cut. It doesn't matter how epic they are — if they don't involve one of the main characters that are currently on the show now (Asha/Yara and Balon tie into Theon, the Red Viper ties into Tyrion, ect.), they're gonna go. I…

Obviously. Martin is trying to be coy with this reveal, but who is he fooling? Zero percent of fandom at this point.

Note that they repeated this work out 8 times. As in a 32 minutes work out. We did this on our varsity team — but you have to repeat the short/hard reps a lot to build anaerobic activity. It doesn't build aerobic endurance, though.