: Re: How can I handle a powerful mentor character without killing them off? I'm writing a book series that involves people with various superpowers. One of these characters and is more or less the

Some of the greatest people in history have been brought low by some adversity and been unable to rise back up to previous glory. Crippling depression for the mentor might be the answer for this situation. If you are struggling to get out of bed and shower you may not be a reliable force for good. In a good dramatic story this could be triggered by being manipulated to work against their goals/nature, being elsewhere and losing someone important to them, making a wrong decision and getting a bunch of people hurt/killed, coming to the realization that what they are doing is futile, etc.

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: Lots of ideas, but don't want to tell stories I sometimes have ideas for what I think might be compelling stories - most would fall in the category of fantasy/science fiction; however, I realise

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: When does a partially random event go from reasonably possible to contrived "deus ex machina"? There will always be some amount of luck, some amount of chance and randomness in any story. This

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: I would say go for it! If you have the possibility of contacting a "proper author," there's no reason not to. If they get back to you or someone from their office does, that would

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: How widely-used is the term "omnibus?" I know "omnibus" to be a term describing multiple novels put into a single book, but I've never really heard or read the term anywhere else.

: Re: How can I handle a powerful mentor character without killing them off? I'm writing a book series that involves people with various superpowers. One of these characters and is more or less the

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: Lots of ideas, but don't want to tell stories I sometimes have ideas for what I think might be compelling stories - most would fall in the category of fantasy/science fiction; however, I realise

: When does a partially random event go from reasonably possible to contrived "deus ex machina"? There will always be some amount of luck, some amount of chance and randomness in any story. This

: I would say go for it! If you have the possibility of contacting a "proper author," there's no reason not to. If they get back to you or someone from their office does, that would

: How widely-used is the term "omnibus?" I know "omnibus" to be a term describing multiple novels put into a single book, but I've never really heard or read the term anywhere else.

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