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: Would it be cheating to change the main character's "name" partway through the story? I'm writing a story written in third-person limited, and the main character has no real name. They simply
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: How to write female characters with agency? I'm attempting to write a novel, an historical fiction with a small fantasy component (time travel through a portal). The travelers (main characters)
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: Writing from a hive mind POV The story: Centuries ago, humanity have been incorporated into an alien hive mind, spread by a bacterial-like infection. The "bacteria" infects the blood and brain
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: Colours of ultraviolet I need to write something from the perspective of a character who sees colours differently from humans, and in particular can see multiple shades of ultraviolet. This isn't
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: How to write female characters as a male writer? Yesterday I asked a question about writing a female character who has agency. Much to my surprise, it was well-received and generated a lot
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: How to write internally emotional characters? Over the past couple of days, I've asked questions about writing female characters with agency, and writing female characters as a male writer. Both
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: How should I have my male character express strong feelings? I am a woman, and I wrote a book out of the perspective of a guy. His best friend tells him she wants to kill herself. So he
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: How would a mature teenager behave? I'm writing about a mature girl (15ish). But I'm not sure how she should act other than being polite. The way I think a mature person would act would be
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: Can a scene be written to be disorienting and not be too confusing to readers? I've written a scene in a short story where the character and her party are suddenly attacked in the night.
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: How to write from a cat's perspective? I want to write a short story from the perspective of a cat who wants to kill a bird that extremely annoys her. Just like Tom is trying every time
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: How short can a poem be until it can no longer be a poem? I am on a small journey to help me understand what the definition of a poem is to different people, what poems mean to them.
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: Is First person perspective more intimate than Third person perspective? I know there's a lot of questions regarding this topic, but none of them delved too deep into if there's a different
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: Switching POV: Should it ever be done at all? When I started, I had a nasty habit of hopping from perspective to perspective to perspective. I forced myself down to one perspective per chapter,
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: How can multiple viewpoints be used without breaking the flow of the story? I'm currently writing a story in first-person that has a connection to a series of external events - things that
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: How to know whether to write in 3rd person or 1st person? How do I know, when I'm writing, which perspective I should write in? I almost always write with a 1st person narrative because it
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: Is it "fair" to hide specific thoughts of a character? I kind of like the style of writing the thoughts and feelings of many of the characters, most of which aren't the protagonist. The
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: Dead as a point-of-view, how can you write first person narrative if that person is dead? In short I'd like to write a story from the point-of-view of a character who ultimately dies within
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: To what extent can a first person narrative tell someone else's story? I've recently been working on some stories written in the first person from the point of view of what, in the grand scheme
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: How best to handle revealing a main character's name midway through a long story in close-third person? I'm writing a novel, and it's written in close third person perspective, very much sitting
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: Do modern readers believe the first person narrator can't die? Back in highschool in the 90s we had an assignment to write an extra chapter for a book. After some discussion the teacher told
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: How to describe a female character's figure without comedy? Do you know a good way to describe a female character's figure? I'm writing a fairly serious story, but the only way I know how to
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: Exercises for improving 3rd person perspective writing Recently I started writing a story. Two equally important protagonists, omniscient 3rd person narrator, a rather sweet romance. And it was
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: How to write two seemingly different characters that are actually the same person? I'm currently working on a book with two protagonists and switching the perspective between them. They have quite
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: If a main character is writing the story, can I change who writes the story in the next chapter? I’m trying to write my first novel and I have come across an issue which I feel like it
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: Is it bad style if the personal first person narrator of a story dies during said story? Right now I'm writing a novel in which I use the changing perspectives of two main characters with
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: Introducing a new POV near the end of a story This question is strongly related to this one: Balance between character's point of views However, that question is asking about balancing POVs
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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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: Switching perspectives for a single chapter in a first person POV novel, to do or not to do? Allow me to explain what prompted the question before you immediately say that it's not okay and
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: Term for writing mostly in first-person, but switching to third-person for things the POV doesn't yet know? What's the term or name of the literary device/technique employed when a novel is mostly
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: Should a long flashback be written in first or third person? In my novel there will be a chapter-length flashback as one character relates a story from his past. The rest of the novel is
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: Multiple Characters in one scene I'm a beginner at writing and am currently trying to write a more or less long story. Now the problem that I have is, that two of my Characters(a guy and
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: What is the voice called when the narrator is a secondary character? Stories that are told by an "all seeing" narrator are told in the "third person." Stories that are told by the main character,
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: Two perspectives in a non-fiction book My daughter and I thought it was a good idea to write a book about our experiences throughout her casting for a movie that she did. Her view on the
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: Switching POV from protagonist to antagonist? I'm writing a young adult fantasy with two main characters. Right now, I'm planning on writing it in 3rd person limited from the point of view of
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: First person narrative - pros and cons I'm writing a novel where my original idea was to use first person narrative in most chapters, since the story focuses on the main character's thoughts/feelings/mental
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: How to write a scene from multiple peoples perspectives? I want to write a scene from multiple peoples perspectives without making it incredibly long, or repetitive. Is there a correct way
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: How to find different meanings behind metaphors used in speech writing? I'm looking for ways to discover what others might think when they hear or see a metaphor used in a speech. I tend to
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: How do I contrast the thought processes of different characters in one scene? I have two characters, Alice and Bob. They have just met and each is trying to deceive the other. But their
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: What is the difference between limited third-person narrative and free indirect discourse? Free indirect discourse is a writing technique that makes the writing display the character's thoughts whilst
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: Is there a term for a narrative where you are speaking to the reader? I know that a first-person narrative is written from the point of view of the narrator, relaying events from their own
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