Outlining for beginners... No seriously, I don't know...

[Ray McCarthy]

different styles of martial arts map to the twenty-four letters

Wait, there are twenty four martial arts? I've only got really about 7 in my story

 

[Vladd67]

Wait, there are twenty four martial arts? I've only got really about 7 in my story

Don't tell me you forgot Ecky thump?

 

[Ray McCarthy]

They are contemporary lower sixth teens in vale of Evesham / Wychavon / Worcester area. They'd not have heard of ecky thump. I confess I had forgotten.
I'd also forgotten that Morris Dancing, Accordion Playing and Bagpiping are under consideration to be banned under the Geneva convention. There is a reason it's so long since the British Isles were invaded (They should have sent Scotsmen and Yorkshiremen to the Channel Is., or even France in 1939)
Now I'll have to go watch a rom-com DVD to get the imagery of the giant kitten scaling the Post Office tower. Britain's answer to the Fantastic Four and other spandex suited heroes. The image of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie in Lycra has now displaced the giant kitten. Not an improvement!.

Interesting site! (typing / spelling is erratic though.)

• The story of Faust envisioned as a historical reinactment tale.
• The legend of Samson set at an airport.
• The legend of Jack O'Lantern being about a group of ghosts.
• A fusion of the story of the Odyssey and the legend of the Phantom Hitchiker.
• The story of Oliver Twist envisioned as a class comedy tale.
• A fusion of the legend of Lemminkainen and the story of the Shui Hu Zhuan.
• The legend of Merlin envisioned as a vengeance tale.
• The story of Moses set at a vetrenary [veterinary or for Veterans?] hospital.
• The story of Ivanhoe envisioned as a cyberpunk tale.
• The tale of the Princess and the Pea envisioned as a post-apocalyptic autobiographical tale.
• A fusion of the story of Tom Thumb and the tale of Casey Jones, set inside a computer game.
• The legend of Hiawatha being about a group of garbagemen.
• The story of Don Quixote set at an amusement park.
• The legend of Romulus and Remus envisioned as a slasher horror tale.
• The legend of Perseus envisioned as a occult detective tale.

 

[J D Foster]

I believe in building your world beyond what you actually use to create consistency and a sense of realism, but it's easy to get stuck deciding what style of cuff links are worn at the formal dinners of a royal house that only comes up once in the whole story.

planning and consistency definitely go together. I love the idea of you spending an evening choosing the cuff link, then dashing it out the window in rage the next day because it's all wrong

Depending on your genre, that may not be a bad thing. .

This is a very good point I hadn't thought of.

 

[EJ Heijnis]

planning and consistency definitely go together. I love the idea of you spending an evening choosing the cuff link, then dashing it out the window in rage the next day because it's all wrong

The... window...? I'm going to go back through my posts and try to find out how I created the impression that such a mistake would drive me to suicide!

 

[J D Foster]

The... window...? I'm going to go back through my posts and try to find out how I created the impression that such a mistake would drive me to suicide!

Ha! the cufflinks, not you... leave me alone I have a cold