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: My Fantasy Series POV I am a young author writing a fantasy series. In my series I have six main characters. If you have read my most previous question, I explained that I have six main
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: Should I write a foreign character's dialogue in their language? When it comes down to story writing, it's always nice to have variety in characters. Such as a character who speaks Spanish more
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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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: 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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: 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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: Should I describe a character deeply before killing it? So, I have this little story I would like to tell. It's about a girl and how she's forced to take a journey with the man who has
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: Is an easily guessed plot twist a good plot twist? In my post-apocalyptic novel, there are two "twists", but they're mostly tied up in each other. The first is that humans have developed
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: Will writing actual numbers instead of writing them with letters affect readership? This question sounds similar to this but I am asking something different. It is said that Stephen Hawking
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: Is it expected that a reader will skip parts of what you write? I have given multiple things I have written to a friend of mine, who is something of a writer himself, to get feedback on
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: How important are good looking people in a novel/story? I've read many books where the main protagonists are described as good looking people with Greek god looks, plenty of sex appeal, the
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: What are some effective ways to gain readers? I seem to be having trouble finding any readers. I have my work in progress on Wattpad right now, but I only have 527 reads. I don't know
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: At what point does an interesting analogy become a distraction? I've written a book. My question is if it is in bad {taste, karma, policy} to use an analogy that is disrupting to the reader's
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: How to identify target audience? And how much details do I need to know about my perfect reader? I'm identifying my target audience based on the experiment explained in the Snowflake Method
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: How do I make a "contract" with my reader? (EDITED TO MAKE IT LESS BROAD AND MORE CLEAR). I recently asked a question about if I really need to include scientific proof for my mostly-non-scientific
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: Do I really need to have a scientific explanation for my premise? So, in my post-apocalyptic novel, the world was caught up in an international war (basically WWIII), and all the world's nuclear
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: Is there a way to break genre expectations successfully? Premise: I believe that breaking genre expectations can alienate readers. If you go into a book expecting one thing and get another thing
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: Write for an audience or find an audience for your writing? I've never written for anything other than personal enjoyment or for a predefined context before. I have ideas and partial drafts
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: Sugar-coating a niche genre I have written one novel, which I believe to be in the steampunk genre. The main plot revolves around a two adventurous women entering in possession of a fabled
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: What are the things to consider when writing a sequel to a novel from another author? I am talking about writing a sequel to a novel that's in the public domain. For example, Wizard of Oz.
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: Writing a short story in the same universe as my novel In my post-apocalyptic novel, the MC Eris navigates the world of survivors and grapples with her newly discovered abilities. The leader
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: Is a nuclear apocalypse cliche? My post-apocalyptic novel occurs in 2122. In canon events, around the year 2018, after many years of global war, a chain reaction caused the launching of all
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: An LGBT main character, but the book isn't about LGBT issues So I'm in the very early stages of plot development on a new story. It focuses on a (nonbinary, hence the they/them pronouns)
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: Creating a fairytale for adults A short story fairytale that I've been thinking about writing and plotting out has recently given me pause. It focuses on a witch and a princess who both cross
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: Fictional cultures and languages existing in the same area? So I've got this fantasy planet X, where humanoid peoples Y and Z are at war on an island nation about the size of England, and
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: Not having any white MC's? (For reference, I am not white. I've asked another question about race here). So I'm pretty far into writing my dystopian novel and I was reading over what I had.
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: Story that's too depressing? (Warning, mention of sexual abuse!!) In the near future where humans have polluted and radiated the Earth so much that animals and plants have been going extinct
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: MC doesn't know something that's obvious to the reader (Another post-apocalyptic novel question! I'm just full of them.) My MC, Eris, has the power to manipulate life force. As a child, she
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: Is my story "too diverse"? (Edit: I feel like I should clarify, these are the only LGBT characters in the story, and the only characters whose sexualities are even touched on, and they are
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: Raising infinite questions without isolating the reader I've been spiraling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theory/mysterious event case study videos on Youtube lately, and have been inspired by
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: Protagonist who is morally compromised and antagonist who is "good"? My protagonist is Eris and my antagonist is Ezrith. In a post-apocalyptic world, my unreliable narrator Eris has the ability
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: I cannot figure out the exact genre (and target audience) of my book For more than three years, I've been writing and re-writing my novel involving immortal characters. Now I'm finally gathering
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: Early investment in a character who "learns better" I'm looking for ways to build early reader investment in an unlikable character who "learns better," but not until fairly late in the book.
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: Series: How can I get my reader to not expect any one genre? Background: I'm planning on writing an extensive series of fantasy books. I plan on writing quite a few of these books, and while
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: What do you do when your message could be dangerous? I've long believed that for a novel (or any kind of fiction) to have a certain weight or power behind it, there must be a message. I've
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: How to make sure that my reader has not forgotten an incident or character which was described earlier and referenced much later in the writing? In the context of writing a fiction novel, how
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: Fantasy novel with obvious - but never defined - sci-fi elements? I'm considering writing a fantasy novel. While I'm striving to make the world as original as I can, and not rely on many of
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: Do readers not like a book if it's too dark and the characters almost never win? I started a book and although I wanted it to be dark, will the readers find it too dark if the characters
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: Would it confuse my readers to give two siblings nicknames that can be abbreviations of the same name? In my book, there's two brothers, who are named Nick and Cole. Now, I've always thought
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: How to make the reader think that the *character's* logic is flawed instead of the author's? Following up on my previous question, "How to make the villain's motives understandable if his logic
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: How to make the villain's motives understandable if his logic is flawed? In a story I'm writing, the villain has his motives for his attitudes. However, he is very mentally disturbed, which makes
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