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: How to demonstrate that the main character of your story is narrating a story to other people in a scene? Being new to writing narratives, I have a query in mind. In one particular scene,
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: Can the villain be introduced too late? An important aspect of my story is the dread of my villain. He is slowly built up throughout the story, with a bunch of characters here and there talking
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: How can I avoid spoiling the reveal in a fictional diary entry? I'm currently writing a story in a fictional diary format. This is proving challenging in several ways, but right now, my focus
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: Characters feelings; Using them for pacing/tension I'm writing a novel and in the opening chapter, one of the main characters finds herself traveling by foot through a very severe sandstorm. I
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: Switching Between First and Third Person So I've started writing a book. It's set in present time, but is going to be interwoven with flashbacks to a few years ago to explain how the character(s)
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: How to Structure a single-perspective Novel into Chapters? Now my case is not novel-wide; I have to do this in one part of the novel, but I extended the question to a more generalised one,
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: Protagonist knows things which the reader doesn't know/story starts in the middle. How do I tell them? when I say "reader", in the context of my particular scenario, I actually mean
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: Can a writer change the perspective of a story? Is it a bad thing if someone writes a story in the third point of view, then he changes the whole story into the first point of view where
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: Should a writer be a good reader? Someone who wants to be a writer, has a good idea in his/her brain but is not much of a reader. Can that person be a good writer given that he/she has
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: Can a novel chapter have a suspenseful flashforward opening? Like in the TV serials, can we have the opening section of the novel relate the ending or some part in between of the chapter (as
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: How can I write complex and believable characters? How do I write characters that are more grounded, complex and believable so that readers can resonate with them and makes my novel more compelling?
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: Can I have a non-living thing with its own perspective? We typically have third person or first person narratives in literature. I have a requirement - to unveil the suspense, I want a non-living
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: Is it permissible to have a non-linear narrative in a three act structure? Would I be breaking any rules, literary conventions or be doing something that is wrong or redundant as a narrative
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: When does a partially random event go from reasonably possible to contrived "deus ex machina"? There will always be some amount of luck, some amount of chance and randomness in any story. This
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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 do I put forward an optimistic conclusion from the narrative? I am writing a self-help book. In one of the chapters, I have argued that academic success is dependent on IQ and IQ is hereditary
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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 do I go about writing a biographical account of my father? I want to write a book involving the life of my father. He's been a political activist during his youth and the events that
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: How to make a conflict seem more complex, despite the story itself being rather one-sided? So, one of my story ideas involved werewolves. In the setting, they were a minority, much like most
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: Is it possible for a police officer to house a child in questioning? For my story, I have a character who is a police officer. In this story, a child is a key to solving the identity of
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: Should you explain where the level of detail comes from in a first person story that is in past tense? Sometimes I read a first person story in past tense and I'm amazed at how much the
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: How do I Build Stories Around Characters? I have a lot of characters I’ve spent time creating and developing, but I cannot, for the life of me, develop an overarching plot. Anyone got any
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: How to write in a clear narrative voice I am writing a Narrated novel. Here is my 1st Person Narration followed by 3rd Person Account of Same Incident Grandmother was an old woman
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: Fault in writers logic and how avoid? So yeah I have seen a situation where what the writer has put makes sense, but after thinking it through there are clear faults in the logic they used.
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: How much of a Novel's Point of View should be from the Narrator I am writing a Novel. How much of the story should be from the Narrator's Point of View. For instance, Narrator knows that
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: How much "throat-clearing," or introduction and exposition, is acceptable to introduce a narrator? I am writing Historical Fiction Novel. A Reporter is interviewing a Centenarian who narrates the
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: If I write a story that incorporates a scientific theory, does the theory have to be cited? For example, if I've written a character that is supposed to be smart and uses a scientific theory
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: Is it bad for the narrative to lie? What I want to know is if it is bad for the narrative to lie to the reader. I get that using it in first person can be a good use for misdirection
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: I find it tough to write my fictional stories in anything other than past tense, why is this? I would like to venture out into present tense, but it is so hard for me to do. How can I
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: What Drives a Broken man? There is this story that I was working on, for an extended period of time. I have scrapped many ideas and drafts but I just could not seem to let go. The idea
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: How do I avoid using to many "I and My in first person narratives To give you a little context below. "Yesterday, I was smiling, and tomorrow, I will try to hold my head up high. But
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: What makes a cliffhanger bad/good? In the second (not yet written) book of my novel series, the ending is a cliffhanger. A very hopeless one. The very hopelessness of it is deliberate. Not
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: Describing a Smile Im trying to show the fact that in a picture my character is smiling, but I don't want to say "we were smiling" this is the sentence im trying to fix: "We were both
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: I keep rewriting the same section of my story. How do I move forward? I have a story I want to write and I have the scenes in my head. Because of this, I keep judging and rewriting the
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: Using different times for different narrative purposes I'm writing a biography. And I want it to be written in English, although I'm not a native speaker. Can I use different times to highlight
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: The concept of "Exotic Culture" and the necessity of a new world A personal point of view on the necessity of a new culture in fiction "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away",
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: How can I make "acts of patience" exciting? This answer to the question Averting Real Women Don’t Wear Dresses introduces a distinction between acts of patience and acts of daring. [...] when
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: Emotional arc types Assuming this vocabulary: the narrative arc is the arc which makes the plot go forward, while the emotional arc is the arc which engage the character on a deeper, not always
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: What is one way to write about feeling someone's sadness? For example: I sensed as if he became sad from the way he spoke after telling him that I would go with her.
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: Getting an editor after the second draft Losely related with my latest question: Should one invest in a professional editor before querying? I've finished - not without sweat - my second draft.
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