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: When is it okay to "tell", instead of "show"? One of the major mantras of writing fiction is "show, don't tell". Is it ever okay to tell? When?
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: How much should I describe things or persons, that are not important for the story? I discussed a book with a friend, and he disliked that the author described a person who is dying shortly
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: What's Essential In A Combat Scene? I've just been reading a bunch of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books. Although they were the most enjoyable read I'd had in ages I always found myself skimming
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: Where to find some good examples of combat or action scenes? I always learn a lot about about writing by reading other works and following their examples. Right now I'm very bad at writing
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: First conversation scenes I've written (looking for errors, conventions, and improvements according to writing standards) I would like to know if I'm doing something wrong (according to writing
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: Can my paragraph use better adjectives and descriptions? I feel my punctuation is all over the place, and the adjectives are not as charming as I think they are. If anyone has watched the
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: Critique of short essay Basically I need some critics regarding the following points: Does this description essay archive its goal (a creepy story with a 'sappy' ending)? How is the 'rhythm' of
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: In what order should I describe a setting? For instance I'm describing the park of an art museum in a foggy day. I'm not sure if I should start with the fog, wind, grass, threes, walking
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: Writing about extreme trauma I've just written a chapter in which one of my protagonists witnesses her entire family massacred during an invasion of her home city. This is obviously an extremely
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: Is this description of my small productivity application clear enough? I wrote a small productivity application, Tomate. Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'm afraid the description of the
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: Writing about drug induced hallucinations and paranoia Not long ago I wrote a short story about a mathematics graduate student on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The young student is innocent
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: How can I improve this description which includes actions? This is the beginning of a short story I'm writing (I'm not a native English speaker): I was lying in the dark, looking at
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: How to create space Recently, a few snippets of my fiction have received critiques along the lines of 'Does not give a sense of space'. Or 'needs more description, sights and sounds'. I think
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: How can this sentence better convey the immobilizing impact of fear? Someone on another forum asked for advice on a sentence she was writing, so I thought I'd share it here and see what kind
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: What elements should be included in a story's setting? I know this will vary depending on the type of the story and the characters involved, not to mention the location itself. What I am looking
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: Confusing writing in order to show how character is falling asleep - is it OK? Generally, writing something confusing is not good. On the other hand, a writer should show rather than tell.
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: How can I make description more natural to me? Description is a weakness in my fiction. My understanding is that the first priority in fiction is to tell the story. Setting does this by providing
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: Is calling this process a "convergence" accurate and clear? I planning to write about the convergence of our real world and the computer reality world. My plan to develop on this idea is to
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: Tips for describing features of unusual place that I often visit I'm having problems describing certain parts of a place that I usually visit. Here are some pictures: For instance, I have
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: Is the opening of this story intriguing, "dark" and smooth? Disclaimer: I'm not an Native English Speaker. This is my fifth attempt of writing a short story (the previous ones are set in the
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: Some doubts on the use of Italicized words Okay here's the thing. After a tough verbal fight with my friend, I concluded that I will post this question here and get some concrete answers.
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: Using senses and similes in descriptions I'm trying to make my descriptions to look less like a bunch of bullet points. So I decided to use more senses and similes. This is something I wrote:
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: Critique a short essay So There I was in the scorching, afternoon, summer heat of Cairo. It was a huge change from the UK’s mild weather, and together with the fact that I had been
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: Improving techniques independently: Description How can I improve my technique in description? Which things I should avoid in description? How can I know, that I put "enough" description and will
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: How to express concisely the circular concept of a beginning and future simultaneously? There are many movies/books which have an ending that is the foundation for the beginning of the story,
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: Chopped sentences with too many conjunction, and repeating the subject again and again I have tendency to write chopped sentences with too many conjunctions, repeating the subject again and again.
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: An adjective relating to the circus? I'm looking for an adjective which essentially means "of or relating to the circus." My context is: As they stood in the doorway, taking in the circus-like
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: What's with all the hate on adjectives and adverbs? Ok, I'm starting to get a feel for this, but I'm hoping someone can explain it more clearly for me. I learned in all my English classes
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: Does the following piece have too much dry narration (mundane tasks, moving about)? Tsuki woke up to the morning sun that entered through the window. She yawned and sat on the side of
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: How do I add more imagery to this short paragraph? I am writing an essay for tenth grade, and I have to write a small story in one paragraph. With a lot of imagery (to get my teacher excited).
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: Am I breaking the "show don't tell" rule in the following passage? Then, as if sensing my presence, the girl turned around. She looked young. Probably sixteen or seventeen. She had long
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: Who can help me to describe the text line from my story in slow motion? This here is a line of my story: As we were in the middle of our conversation, I saw a blinding light heading
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: Good idea to describe the heist place before the heist begins? I'm working on a heist scene where five thieves are supposed to enter a corporate building and steal a few documents. It's supposed
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: How should I handle repeating parts in a technical description? I'm about to write a technical description for an industrial process. The description will follow logical blocks, or blocks from
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: Is this a good description of a jew looking out the window at nazis? Cautiously I rose, briefly leaving his side. Turning to the lugubrious window when suddenly I was forced to duck down as
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: Whether to describe personality of a character or let the readers deduce it based on the actions I am facing this situation where description of the personality of a character is quite important.
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: How to introduce a world that's alien to the reader I'm writing sort of a space-opera and I was wondering what would the best way to explain everything about the world to my readers. The
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: How can you represent music in writing I was wondering if a character was in a nighclub or at a concert. How do you represent the music? It got me thinking that writing is a very non musical
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: RDF vocabularly for storytelling Can anyone point me to an RDF vocabulary used for story-telling? A Resource Description Framework is a technique for structuring data in a way that computers
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: How to Describe a Scene from Video? I'm new to English (three years) and I want help describing this video for my fantasy novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcen0EjmiU. I don't want you
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