Articles by Quietus

1. Character Is Action. I cannot stress this point enough. Character. Is. Action. Characters do things throughout a story, and by doing things I mean they don't sit around waiting for the story to happen to them. Characters thrive on achievements and goals [we'll get to that shortly] and should...

Tired of laboring for hours over long, artistic posts that earn you gobs of clout amongst your fellow writers? Irritated of being pestered for posts and having to set aside an entire night in order to fulfill the quota? For those of you who missed my entry into Mad-Chats, here is the abridged...

Ah, Star Wars Cantinas. A place to meet your arch nemesis, soul mate, seedy drug dealer, techy splicer, and all manner of strange off-world, non-local aliens. There's at least one Cantina on every single planet you've ever been to, and if there isn't someone will surely put one there. As a...

I know I've had the conversation before where the topic of "it's just so hard to be creative" is the talk of the evening. In the case of creativity it's easy to accept the fact that all new ideas are based on pre-existing things, and some might even say that nothing is ever really new so much as...

A collection of some Phrikin' delightful RP thread titles. Everyone loves a good pun. Ah, Phrik It Don't be a Phrik A Phrike of a Time We Haven't Met, but Phrik It Ah Phrik It! The Freak and the Phrik Phrik this Deal! Pirates, Phrik Them! Phrik you, it's mine! Looking for Phrik in Alderaan...