Thread:SupcommMonroee/@comment-5418140-20120818122717/@comment-1743498-20120818142500

Hello, I am Krayfish, founder and Residential Expert on Culture and Character Development.

This is a very good start. I definitely like the amount of detail you have put into this pitch. (You'll also need a quick one for your first story), but you have enough planned out to start your article.

By the way, one reason why so many alien races look humanoid is because that's an ideal shape for an intelligent species. Having arms and opposable thumbs makes the manipulation of tools easier, but exact shapes may differ. Of course, you don't have to make it look humanoid if you don't want to.

For the statement about categorizing plants and animals, that's what humans have tried to do until we discovered new forms of life such as fungi and protists which were neither animals nor plants. There's bound to be new types of life elsewhere that we have yet to discover (such as plant-animal hybrids for example). If you are unsure if something is either plant or animal, the term "creature" will suffice.