Hello everyone, I recently found a blast from the past in the early days of the Duck and wanted to reach out to the oldheads, while also laying out something fun for newer members who may be interested. First of all, take a look at the bear icon above. Do ...

Juliet stares blankly at the neighboring table where Whiteheart, a golden-haired gentleman sporting a mysterious scar running down the left side of his face sits surrounded by swarms of women. Her idle gaze returns to Don, this evening’s dinner date set up by her mother. Donny is a classmate ...

Damaged Heroes


A well written, standard Protagonist will generally have some flaws, starting out as an underdog of some kind, with lessons to learn and improvements to make over the course of the story.

Granted, some heroes are, well, just heroes, who are pretty much who they need to be ...

For a huge chuck of Christians around the world, today is Resurrection Day (or Good Saturday), which is easily one of the most important days in the Christian calendar, no matter when you observe it. For those that do, therefore, I hope you have the happiest one yet, and since ...

It's Valentine's Day as I write this, and the day after (or many days after) when you're reading this.

Anyway, I thought I'd run down (or run up) my top five science fiction romantic couples. I don't think I've done this topic before, but ...

The long-awaited and much loved official Drunk Duck Awards community wide event has made a comeback for the first time in two years. Chief organizer, Niccea, returns as MC for the tenth time to host the annual event that has been celebrated by Ducks all around the world since Spring ...

I don't wanna be remembered; I wanna be forgotten


MEMORY and MEMORY LOSS in FICTION

Playing with memory and memory loss is a handy device for fiction writers, from soap opera-type melodrama to exciting-but-thought-provoking stories like The Matrix, and in all kinds of stories betwixt and beyond.

Like any ...

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BANES RETURNS! …to talk about boobs with the rest of us. The topic of the discussion this week was brought to us by Tantz's newspost on ...

Based off of one of many suggestions left by DD member marcorossi in my last post of the Fantastic Bestiary, this one number 3 is gonna be about an aspect of ancient Roman mythology that you don’t come across all too often in depictions of Ancient Rome. When Roman ...

Niccea has an Awards Announcement:

Whew! Here we go again. I'm going to get everything moving now. 

I'm going to open up the awards for For Your Consideration pages now. The rules are simple: keep the page rated PG or so and use the theme in your page ...