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: How can I make a character who isn't a jerk seem like one? I have an MC who, because of certain circumstances, everyone sees him as harsh and cruel at first. As they get to know him through
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: A poker game description that does not feel gimmicky I'm writing a scene in which four characters play a high-stakes poker game. So far my narrator has been an omniscient third person, who
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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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: How can I explain my world if the character is technologically not yet capable of understanding it? One feature of my world is a plant that lives in a magmaous (rather than "volcanic") cave.
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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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: Describing a chess game in a novel I have a scene in a upcoming novel where two people play a game of chess, and I realized how difficult it was to describe it. The problem is due to the
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: How to describe skin colour, if "white" is not the point of reference? A character looks at another character, skin colour creates certain associations. A character looks at himself, and associations
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: Should I defend my character's appearance? I'm in talks with a publisher about my comic book. In it, the main character is a hunter who hunts monsters, but in a way inspired by how real hunters
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: Protagonist's race is hidden - should I reveal it? I'm currently on the fourth draft of a novel I'm writing, which features two protagonists. One of them, is, in my mind, black. I say, "in
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: How to refer to clothes without modern words ? (e.g: t-shirt) This is a constant struggling point of mine. Most of my settings take place in fictional worlds often inspired by various parts
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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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: How do I write about nerdy concepts without sounding like a tryhard? How would one express nerdy gobbledygook without sounding like a technical tryhard? For instance, if I were to explain the
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: Is it ok to reference something modern to give the reader a better idea of what something looks like if the book is set in the Middle Ages? This is a random example but would it be bad
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: How do I draw attention to a girl's chest without making it overly lewd? So, I have a group of main characters, and the current viewpoint character is going to introduce a... very well-endowed
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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 do you show, through your narration, a hard and uncaring world? As I've already mentioned, I'm working on a sci-fi novel. One of the main feelings that I wanted to represent when I started
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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 to make clear what a part-humanoid character looks like when they're quite common in their world? How can I describe an unconventionally part-humanoid character, so the reader knows clearly
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: How to write painful torture scenes without being over-the-top I'm trying to write torture scenes but I'm not really all that confident about it since I've never written anything like it before
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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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: Is it better to describe the main character's physical appearance early on in the story? I'm writing a novel, and I just realized I don't describe be main character's appearance until Chapter
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: Describing something that doesn't exist I'm in the middle of my first draft for my novel, and I can't seem to properly convey to my audience the image I'm trying to describe. That's what
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: What are the limits to description in story writing? How do I know if I have crossed them? Time and time again, I have been told that my unfounded focus on description distracts from the
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: Is it important to describe how the characters are dressed? One thing that I never mention in my stories is how the characters are dressed. Well, except when they are being described for the
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: How specific should descriptions of settings/appearances be? Some people tell me there are not enough descriptions in my book, some say there are too much. How do you know how much detail is
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: Facial expressions as part of dialogue - getting rid of a verbal tic I noticed a verbal tic in my writing: He looked surprised He looked confused He looked abashed Sometimes
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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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: Beginners can break rules too? I came across several disciplines of writing which one must know while writing (especially beginners), concerning narrative conventions and the rules of story logic.
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: How much detail is too much? I've read a few amateur stories online and sometimes the author will include so much detail that the reader gets a little bored or distracted and forgets what
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: How often should I remind my readers of the setting? My story takes place in a city during a hard winter: streets are covered with snow, the wind is blowing, the river is frozen. I describe
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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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: 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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: 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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: What information about a fictional world is unnecessary? I was able to gain some insight already thanks to How much detail is too much?, but I still need a more precise answer, because my
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: When writing down a huge amounts of detail is inevitable In hard-SF the writer has to adapt to the world and its limitation. Under normal circumstances, this shouldn't a problem, as you can
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: How to express martial arts action in fiction? In the context of an actual as opposed to training fight scene in a fictional narrative, how would one express martial arts action? Generally,
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: How does a person go about describing a place/experience that they never personally experienced before, like a circus? I've never been to a circus, and all the shows and videos I've seen about
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: Should I use the real name or attempt to describe? I'm writing a story in a fantasy setting, where there are characters who dress with ancient Egyptian type clothing - such as haram pant and
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: Should I repeat character descriptions if a character reappears the second time too far into the story? Should I repeat character descriptions if a minor character reappears the second time too
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: When is a lack of long, sophisticated words to describe an otherwise simple concept bad? Reading books of Dan Brown and that sort (pardon my inability to produce any other relevant examples
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