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: Do I have to start my story with my main characters? What I mean is, does my story have to start with my main character being introduced, or can I start with their parents and then ease
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: When Truth Meets Fiction Is there such a category in books as a fictional memoir (tales about one's own life with exaggerated elements included for entertainment)?
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: How can concurrent/dual dialogue be implemented in short story/fiction writing? I am currently writing a short story that has two intertwined narratives told in inverse chronological order from
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: How to call a paper or book holding charms/incantation/magic formula? Hope the title is clear enough. I'm also looking for any vocabulary related to the act of writing magic ( 'runes' as a
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: Should I practice writing novels before starting the novel I want to write, or plan to do a lot of editting? tldr: Though I've been writing fiction for a long time, I have no real training
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: How do you format dialogue within a parargraph? He made his way over to the crimson red telephone box that basked in the afternoon sunlight. Ted knew she was hiding in there. “You can come
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: How do I write "fantasy counterpart cultures" without being accused of cultural appropriation? In my book series, the various planets of the galaxy are inhabited by different cultures, most of
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: Publishing of Collection of Short Stories I have a collection of short stories--48 in total, a word count of 80,000 and 156 pages. Regarding publication, is such a collection likely to be too
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: Where should I post my unfinished story I'm still writing? I've written a few bad stories before, but I post them online anyway. All my past ones have been put on a fanfiction site, but the
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: Do I Have Too Many Characters? I have been working on a story for the past several months. Basically, it is about a group of orphaned girls whose parents were all part of a secret organization
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: If a story includes a cross country road trip, do the highway and city names need to be real? If a story includes a cross country road trip set in the USA in 1970’s, do the highway and
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: Is it true that the need for marketing/promoting one's books is a "myth"? For indie fiction authors, is it true that if one simply writes and publishes regularly, one will begin to see sales
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: Can I use a print on demand service for my novel with an explicit scene? I am looking to print the first novel I ever wrote for personal use—one physical copy to sit on my bookshelf as
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: A smooth way to make Dialogue I am an amateur fiction writer and a key feature in most of my pieces is dialogue. There are often 6-12 characters in the exciting scenes and a lot of the
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: How does war work? I am currently writing a story about an interstellar war. Here is the general idea: this war is taking place in Jupiter, the largest planet and one of the main areas of
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: Korean sensitivity reading for a modern fantasy world I've been working on a YA/adult contemporary fantasy novel for a while and I had some questions about sensitivity reading. The world featured
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: How to add various social themes in the story? I'm working on my first novel, which revolves around revenge and violent cycles of human nature for more than 1.5 years. While working on some
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: Name of the argument for defending in-fiction atrocities based on historical accuracy? I remember reading up about an argument, but I can't recall or find what it was called. It basically boiled
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: Building a Fictional World upon a Real Setting To save time with world building an focus on the tale, is it justified to borrow heavily from a real world setting and take enough liberties
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: How to research and create an authentic setting for a story set in a foreign country? As a writer, for authenticity and to avoid distracting errors, I need to portray my story setting correctly.
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: How strange (or not) is it for the protagonist in a tragedy to overcome their central flaw only for it to not matter? I have a story idea for a science fiction tragedy where the protagonist
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: Inhibitions when writing personal experiences I write for myself and have no intention of publishing anything. However, I still become uncomfortable writing about events in my life because I think
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: Seeking advice - screenwriter looking to write novel All. I'm looking for some advice. I'm interested in writing a young adult mystery novel, but I don't believe I'm a good writer in the traditional
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: Enjoying my writing vs. maintaining writing habit How do I resolve the conflict between: Being interested in what I write about Ignoring my inner critic, pushing past writer's block, starting writing,
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: How do I write religious conflict? In this book I'm making, there is a religious conflict that happens. Here's the base of my plot so far: Adrian lives in the dragon tribe Sa'fwan. Foreigners
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: I want the protagonist to win, but the antagonist is overpowered I am writing a story about a normal teenager who is suddenly transported to this world that will soon be attacked by a powerful
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: How can I write a hand-to-hand combat scene that is not too brief or detailed? When I describe hand-to-hand combat, I include EVERYTHING that's going on, EVERY action and motion the characters
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: How do I write a "suboptimal" fight scene? For my story I have been doing research on fighting in order to better write the fight scenes. However, once I got a better handle on how fighting
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: How to refer to a crowd of many different species? How could I say the equivalent of "A pouring wave of humanity," when there are more than one species in the scene being described?
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: How to write the same event with a different POV? I am aiming to change POV in the middle of my book, based on my previous question and I have yet to decide where to start the second POV.
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: How to care about the characters more than the world? I have a very well-built up world with politics, religions etc, that I've built up over the course of my writing. But I have recently
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: How to write from the perspective of the future about the present? My story mainly takes place in the present, however, it begins and ends about 20 years into the future. (The main character
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: Writing Historically accurate diversity vs. Telling someone else's story I am writing a story that takes place in a period of heavy political tension. It is a fictional world, but based off
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: TW: child abuse, Is it ethical for me to write a book centered on child abuse despite not experiencing it? It's my first attempt at trying to write a long length story of my own and so
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: How can a portal be hidden for 5 years but found by children? I am writing a story in which two children, ages 12-14 years old, discover a portal to another dimension. The portal is roughly
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: I want to write about a suicide, how should I do it? I want to have a book (or multiple) have a suicide in it, and I want to write the suicide. I don't know how exactly to go about that.
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: How would a god-like character react to losing their godhood? A character in my book is a (small g) goddess, who has limited knowledge of all her worshippers and the natural world. She and
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: I'm unable to read any book or write a single line So, there was a time when I could finish a book in 2 days. All I did was read books and sometimes I took some time out to write something
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: I want to write a male character, but I am lost I'm writing a new story. The main character is male. I know how to write from the viewpoint of a male (I am one), but I'm lost on writing
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: Fiction Advice: Country's Children I had an idea for a setting. I don't know if it has been done before. What I thought of is that a government would collect children. I am not sure
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