Long story short – splitting infinitives in English is absolutely fine. The reason some people think it’s wrong seems to go back to Latin being far more commonly taught to people and it’s impossible to split infinitives in Latin. But …
Month: June 2017
The Little Queen – Prologue
I’m rewriting my first novel, The Little Queen. I am still working on Asterion as well, but I’m at a point in that where it makes sense to rewrite the first one as well as I long wanted to in …
The Little Queen – Prologue, Part Three
We met Jennifer and Kaya in parts one and two, but there’s one other main character in this story so it’s time we met her. Apologies for any errors in formatting – normally I copy things from MS Word with …
Weekend Writer Chat
karenterrywrites: What got you into writing? Was it a certain author, a teacher you had in school, something else? For me it’s pretty boring. I liked the creative writing assignments in school, and that pretty much sparked it. Follow the …
Worldbuilding June Day 16: Indistinguishable from Magic
‘Magic’ is just the word humans give to things they either don’t yet understand, don’t want to understand, or can’t be bothered to. But there really is no such thing as the supernatural, as nature is everything that exists. When …
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You mentioned that Frankenstein’s monster can also be called Frankenstein, as being created by the man technically makes him Victor’s son. And while that’s true, the monster made is very clear he doesn’t like Frankenstein. He strangled Victor’s little brother (his uncle?) just because the twerp mentioned the name. By that logic, isn’t it kind of insulting to the monster to keep throwing that in his face? (Then again, I’m speaking on behalf of preserving the feelings of a fictional character)
atopfourthwall: See, now this is the first reasoning for not calling him Frankenstein that I could get behind. I don’t know that any country has laws regarding the guardianship of creatures stitched together from parts of dead people. Anyway, the …
Worldbuilding June Day 15: Technobabble
Biotechnology is an exciting new frontier, but there are lots of other exciting technologies being developed in and around Irongate. Some of these end up being used for nefarious activities, but most don’t and just make people happy and are …