I agree. People know too little of swords. My problem is easier to solve when you're writing in a third person like you point out.

Of course, some creativity is to be had with it. I couldn't have done a better job of naturally and clearly explaining the term.

Thank you for that, honestly I just used the term that sounded fanciest.

The character wouldnt say it. It knows the sword. But the narrator should use jargon. People need to be educated about new words

I think you should explain it once and then leave it at that. Expect the reader to remember what it is the next time the word appears. And if it's a series of books once per book.

Sarcasm. Tongue in cheek. Joke. Exaggregation for comedic effect. Jeez....

And honestly, nowadays it hardly matters as 99% of all books I buy are ebooks.

Flamberge does not automatically mean a sword is wavy.

That's the origin of the term, but it has been used for a long time to refer to many swords, some of which are not flame or wave-bladed.

Lol That's all right then! :)

Your library online will have a "Popular Science" section. If you look up author's names in Wikipedia you should get an idea of their reputation. If you read somebody, double-check some of their sources, too.

Read very viewpoint, and avoid anything that tries to manipulate you with emotional buzzwords

It ain't easy.

"He comes towards me, the wavy blade of his flamberge moving, snakelike, in the flickering torchlight."

So this is just a litsnob dunk post?

Oh oops, it showed up correctly for me.

My brain is an English only club lol I’ve learned a bit of Spanish and Japanese but not enough to read a book and comprehend it to a degree of enjoyment.

Maybe one day.

True, especially the part that you could read nothing but books that feature violence against women or heinous racism. There seems to be an endless supply of them. In part because it has become popular to explore these horrible experiences in hopes to prevent them. That said, it is also way to define one group of people as bad and another as good; oppressors and the oppressed. The problem is it becomes easy to get stereotype all people of a certain group as oppressors. It is typecasting and no better than the awful typecasting of the past when blacks in film and TV were usually depicted as criminals or pimps and women as nagging housewives. Every identity should be able to see positive depictions of their identity in books, films and television.

I find such violence against women or people of different races abhorrent and prefer not to read fiction or watch media that includes such depictions. You would think this material would appeal most to misogynists or racists, but it often appeals to people who like seeing their identity harmed because of what it says about the group doing the harming. This can be unifying because it creates a common enemy according to Professor Jonathan Haidt.

A lot of scifi/fantasy or romance from the Aughts/early 10s had these cheap photoshop of generic pictures of hot people usually women and some other poor photoshoped plot important object thrown in for measure. Looked like it took all in all max 20 minutes to do. Chuck Tingle's book covers seem to riff on this trend

Okay! I appreciate that. I guess I haven’t really been into reading since high school so I was afraid of coming off as out of touch.

You must not have heard of them yet. There is a growing theology for young white men who don't have, but recently found out, there was never a way for them to accomplish their dreams/expectations. The recent attempts to balance gender equality is taken as a direct threat to their existence. The easiest target is women, who are much more vocal and visible working for equally.

In summary, women are the cause of their problems. Their solution i to them is obviously controlling, attacking, and degrading them.

I almost forgot! Most of them are virgins that go by the phrase of INCEL, which is short for INVOLUNTARY CELIBACY I'll just let you think about that for a moment.

Stoned Souls by Mercedes Lackey and Joshua Sherman. It was meant to be part of the SERRAted Edge novels but was never published.

A little bit off topic, but for more space horror I want to recommend this little pure text mobile game called Lifeline. In its essence it's a short interactive story. You're tasked to help a person stranded on an alien moon, it's not fully horror (starts as a survival), but a few moments coupled with the fact that you can fail and lead the main character to something probably worse than death gave me shivers. Neat stuff and cost me only 2 or 3 bucks.

something that really helped for me was to always take a book everywhere you go. that way i get 15 minutes of reading done on the train, so it’s already half an hour a day. sometimes you have to wait somewhere for a while and instead of scrolling on your phone you can read

So books should only be like $50-100+?

The first spoiler markup still has a space in it. The one that starts with 'Beth'

I lol’d

For me, reading digital books has been a great help. I can grab 5-10 minutes here and there without having to drag a physical book along. The other thing I suggest is not to get in a genre rut. Mix it up. I primarily read non-fiction, but every now and then I through in some good fiction. I use bookbub and that encourages me to try some titles that I might not have been willing to shell out $10-15 for. I imagine I have averaged 25 books a year for the last 20 years.

Any tips to stop falling asleep after only reading a couple of pages? I tried reading my viking magazine tried reading 2 pages but i had to fight to not fall asleep it was hard so i put it down. Even if its interesting. But it its a manga I don’t feel drowsy or whatever. I want to be able to read books but it seems hard to