Conflict

Banes at 12:00AM, March 23, 2023



Conflict!

It's the essential building block of drama. You don't have a story without the basics of “someone wants something, and something's in the way of getting it.”

Screenwriting books - books I really love and have given me a lot - will often say that amping up the ...





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FEATURED COMIC --> Danse Macabre Danse Amour

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 22, 2023



There is an abandoned palace, Le Theatre Charogne, in the heart of Lapinville, a town no stranger to rabbits. The midnight bell strikes when a weary traveler searching for a place to crash decides that squatting in an abandoned theatre is preferable to sleeping on the streets. Now, preferable is ...

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You Kids Are Testing My Limits

Banes at 12:00AM, March 2, 2023



I was reading a critique of a series, a successful series, of novels. I think it's an urban fantasy/horror thing where the main character has a specific paranormal ability, limited, but useful in her detective work. She had a love interest, who was maybe on and off, but ...

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Tough Love vs. Abuse

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2023



Tough love is so cool, eh? It's going to magic the “whining” right out of you, won't it? You just need to stick out through the harshness, and then when you reap the benefits, you'll realize your tough loving benefactor had the right idea. You'll be ...

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Poetry Time 18: The Messenger

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 15, 2023



Once you see it, don’t turn back. The seals of yours approval is bleeding through your isolation.
Once you hear it, don’t turn off. The bells of yours improval is screaming through your insulation.
Once you feel it, don’t turn numb. The strokes of yours instinctual is ...



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Inspirational baggage:

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 8, 2023



So! 2023. Did my annual tarot spread this morning and the cards that came up seems to promise quite an eventful year. But I’m not gonna go into detail about that since it is a personal prediction of mine. Instead I’m gonna talk about how something that may ...

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New Year's Eve Thoughts

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 31, 2022



It's customary during the final days of a year to do resolutions for the next one or overviews of what happened in the one that's ending.

Even if we buck the system, we kinda do think back and ahead, especially during New Year's Eve, don't we ...



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Last Call Sign-Ups to Participate in 2022 Secret Santa

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 5, 2022


Photo: (clockwise from upper left) nightmarelunatic’s gift for Andreas_Helixfinger; sleeping_gorilla’s for Tantz_Aerine; lothar’s gift for usedbooks; kawaiidaigakusei’s gift for davidxolukoga; and Tantz_Aerine’s gift for hushicho.

There are less than three weeks until the time of gift-giving. The planning for this year’s Secret Santa Gift ...


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Secret Santa 2022 Sign-Ups!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 28, 2022


Photo: (clockwise from upper left) UndertheBlackHat’s gift for cdmalcolm1; usedbook’s gift for UndertheBlackHat; Hushicho’s gift for nightmarelunatic; cdmalcolm1’s gift for theRedDeath; Andreas_Helixfinger’s gift for lothar; and theRedDeath’s gift for sleeping_gorilla.


There are less than four weeks until the time of gift-giving. The time to ...



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Quackcast 610 - Beauty!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 22, 2022

LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher ​​- https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, so the saying goes but it's absolutely true. There is a layered subjectivity to it based on personal ...



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