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: Words use to describe racing heartbeat I think that it is too simple just to use "my heart pounded." I prefer something a little bit more elaborated. What sentence can I use besides
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: How do I tastefully handle a female-to-male transforming character? My character is a girl who is later revealed in my story to be under a curse that allows her to transform into an older
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: Can you be too detailed in fantasy writing? I am wondering if there is such a thing as “too detailed†in writing. If yes, then I want to know if I am doing it. I will insert a descriptive
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: Is there a phrase that means "a character suddenly gets a lot of development right before they die"? If I remember correctly, there is a phrase meaning "a character suddenly gets a lot
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: How to clearly distinguish the settings of different scenes from each other, and make them "feel" different? Background I've been working on doing nitty-gritty editor revisions of my detective novel
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: Cons of Extensive Detailing Every time I start a story, I create the scene in my mind. I'm pretty sure others would be able to write it in 2000 words. However, once I start writing, I detail
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: What are some examples of the "simple but vivid" description that Chekhov talks about in the quote below? (The quote below is from one of Chekhov's letters to other Russian writer, Maxim Gorky.)
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: Resources to describe medieval clothing from different cultures? I realise this may not be the best place for this question, but I'm not sure where else to ask. I'd like to describe specific
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: Alternative to "it is commonly said" I have a sentence I am trying to write that just doesn't feel right. It currently reads "It is commonly said that X, but the truth is that Y." The second
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: Are there any good alternatives to "a fire inside" of someone? I'm trying to express the idea of a character undergoing a realisation, thus feeling an idea along the lines of a "fire being
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: How can I describe an incredible release of power, realistically In my writing, a goddess is removed from her position as a god and reduced to a human. (See my previous question) At the moment
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: Where to draw the line between bloody and purely repulsive? Violence and gore are an integral part of my story. However, I can usually keep the focus on the emotions, and the reactions, rather
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: How to Describe Topography I have an image in my mind but I can't describe the topography, so I would always repeat, "grounds", "a little elavation", "inside the forest","some mounds,"surrounded
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: When you can't even draw a stick man...? (concept art) Good day all. Hope the writing muses are with you all. I was wondering what helps you to imagine details in a scene? I can't say
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: How do I define smells I have never experienced? I am a lifelong writer, who was also born without an ability to smell. I have been trained to engage the reader by applying the five senses,
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: Describing shapes and objects While I absolutely agree, that descriptions should be experienced through the narrator's / protagonist's eyes in terms of personal involvement, I oftentimes find myself
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: How Do I Define Smells Of A World With Anosmia? I am a lifelong writer, who was also born without an ability to smell. I have been trained to engage the reader by applying the five senses,
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: How to write mishearing/mispronouncing without lying to the reader? Sometimes the plot requires communication to partially break down between characters. A misheard or mispronounced word can have
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: How do I describe something vividly without being purple? I feel that the following example from Rosa Luxemburg is good at describing my goal. Despite using "complicated" words it doesn't come
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: I abstain from using concise words in my writing, so as to "show" instead of "tell". Is this bad writing? Instead of explaining this whole practice, I'll rather give an example. In a scene
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: Setting exposition vs scene descriptions If my main character goes to a new building – let's say in the beggining of a short story – and I describe the facade and the design of the building,
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: Can overwriting be made to look intentional from a first-person narrative? I am an aspiring author, trying to get my 80,000-word traditionally published, though I will self-publish it if that
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: Should you write character description points in bulk or spread them out? I've heard a lot of people saying they skip descriptions if they are written as one bulk list, but others say it's
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: Do we simplify descriptions when they sound weird? The woman said as she pulled a small coin out of a small wallet ... The woman said as she pulled a small coin out of a small box
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: Describing the taste of food I’m asking about this not because I have a tendency to do so myself, but rather because I find it unusually aggravating when I come across it in other people’s
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: How to convey the anatomy of a humanoid race? I am writing a extra-terrestrial high fantasy novel. The story is completely set in an alien world. No visits from Earth and no visits to
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: Detail vs. filler How can I minimise the "filler" text that I end up writing when fleshing out a scene with detail? An appropriate level of detail seems to me to be a fundamental requirement
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: How to realistically describe pain? So, I was doing a writing excersie, I came up with, to help me with sentence structuring and developing my style. One thing, I ran into, however, was that
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: How to eliminate standoff between "Lengthy" vs "Concision"? Often while writing a software requirement/change-request documentation, I need to include the quoted requirements descriptively, the impacted
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: How do we end a description properly? Sometimes, I have trouble coming up with a way to end a description properly, especially one that's at the very end of a chapter. What are some of the
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: Spicing up a moment of peace In the ever swinging tone of a novel, one may wish to show a moment of peace amidst all the chaos. In my novel it happens a few times, most notably when characters
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: Is this kind of description not recommended? I think I read somewhere that when writing, you shouldn't describe characters by their characteristics i.e. The tall man walked across the room
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: A pulse, a throb, and a beat I wrote a passage where one of my characters heard beats, (i.e., the sound) then he found the beating object and, when he held it in his hand, it started throbbing
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: Describing weighing an object in hand A person holds a stone object in one hand. They throw it up and down in the air, in that hand, a few times, to judge the weight/feel/impact of the
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: Job description for my employment reference I've canceled my job to move on. Now I was asked how I want my Job description for my employment reference. My first draft was one full page...
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: Geographic description of coastal rock formation Hello masters of geographic eloquence, A rock arch bridges across to a rock formation seen in the screen right of the image/photograph. It's not
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: Building a scene and readability When building a scene at the beginning of a chapter for instance, before character interactions take place, what are the important elements to consider, and how
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: Is it stylistically sound to use onomatopoeic words? I'm writing a non-comedic fantasy novel, and I find myself using onomatopoeic words, like "SLAM!" and "TWISH" (for the shooting of arrows).
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: How to describe POV characters? I want to describe my first person perspective character who's narrating without doing the Wattpad "mirror scene." How would I go about this?
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: Should fiction mention song names and iPods? In my novel, the protagonist is depressed. In the story which is in my mind... The autumn leaves were falling as I was sitting alone and
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