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: How to describe a setting but without making it too cliche? There is this one author technique that I find a bit cliche, which is matching the mood to the setting. This means that for example,
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: How to clearly distinguish the settings of different scenes from each other, and make them "feel" different? Background I've been working on doing nitty-gritty editor revisions of my detective novel
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: Realistically writing culture shock for this character? I want some help writing a character. Her name is Christina and she lived in an underground bunker, in a post-apocalyptic world, so she’s
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: Beginning a story in a bar, good or bad? Currently writing a novel about a man spiraling downward following a divorce, among other things. I want the reader to be grabbed by this man even
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: How to Describe Topography I have an image in my mind but I can't describe the topography, so I would always repeat, "grounds", "a little elavation", "inside the forest","some mounds,"surrounded
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: Setting exposition vs scene descriptions If my main character goes to a new building – let's say in the beggining of a short story – and I describe the facade and the design of the building,
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: How to convey the anatomy of a humanoid race? I am writing a extra-terrestrial high fantasy novel. The story is completely set in an alien world. No visits from Earth and no visits to
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: Is having elaborate metaphors ever a bad thing? Is having elaborate metaphors a bad thing in a short story (for the purposes of the story being accepted by a magazine)? How can I know if
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: Can I say this about real countries in my fiction? I am writing a visual novel and use a fictional country in "real-world" setting. Some cases have been bothering me and I'm not sure if it's
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: Transitional sections As I mentioned in my other recent question, my novel in progress has three main locations. I feel those three settings are strong, fully imagined places, with interesting
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: Magic is the twist It feels silly to say, but I've got myself into a bit of a bind of a side project. In a three-act structure (not what everyone uses, but a good reference point) you generally
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: What techniques or approaches can I use to explore distasteful concepts while also making them necessary? In my story democracy crumbles in a nation, replaced by a powerful dictatorship. Our world
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: Balancing setting, theme, and character arcs: how to deal with a setting that carries emotional weight but is left behind? When writing a story, how do you find a good balance between the significance
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: In fiction, can I write about Downing College, Cambridge? I have included, in my fictional book, several mentions about Downing College, Cambridge. Now they have a fete on their lawns. Two Russians
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: Exhaustive research vs artistic license? I'm working on a post-apocalypse novel set all over the world. I'm fairly flexible on where some of the events take place, but there are often specific
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: How to make a setting relevant? One piece of feedback that I got on a story I wrote is that my settings feel irrelevant, or that the entire book could have been a phone call. I am not
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: Any advice on creating fictional locations in real places when writing historical fiction? I am currently working on a historical fiction novel set during the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance,
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: How do I write real-world stories separate from my country of origin? I live in India. And the stories I write don't want to. The thing is, as you all might already know, my country has
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: How can I effectively research for a high-fantasy setting? When you write in a modern day setting, you research the culture, climate, location and history of that setting. You can do the same
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: Is it acceptable to use props I saw in a movie in my story? I was watching a movie and, in multiple scenes, the characters were using a set of coffee cups that I haven't seen before. I
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: How do we write a story about genocide committed by a fascist government without falling into the "Nazi Germany" cliché? Too often, when people make a story about genocide committed by a fascist
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: Finding out about other countries' military day-to-day Where does one go to find out about the day-to-day of military life? In countries other than my own? I don't mean combat - I mean the
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: When writing in a school context without ever having been to school, how do I make sure that my story is accurate within school context? I read a lot of YA fiction, a lot of which happens
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: Are fictional inventions trademarked? I am wondering if I can include fictional inventions like the power suits in Iron Man. I believe that "power-suits" are used legally by a lot of media;
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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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: Writing short stories in an original world setting I'm writing short stories in a Fantasy world setting I have created — medieval times, magic, dragons, etc. People who are familiar with such
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: How to introduce a foreign idea to readers I'm writing a book with a world similar to ours but at the same time is very different. I don't know how to do it smoothly without overloading
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: How much description is too much? A companion question for How much description is necessary, how much description is too much? I close my eyes, I can visualise my MC's bedroom (for example)
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: How much description is necessary? I have trouble imagining things. With me everything is blurred, as if I were almost blind. That's why I find it hard to describe things. For example, the
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: How important is the apocalypse in a post-apocalyptic story? I am writing a story set after an apocalyptic event that has left only 0.1% of the world population intact. I originally wrote a
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: In the background of the Future As I've mentioned multiple times, I'm writing a military sci-fi novel. The focus of the story is war, and that happens far away from Earth. However, I'm starting
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: What are the advantages and disadvantages of setting a story in a made up country, compared to a real one? I have story ideas that involve civil wars or revolutions happening while a character
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: First quarter friends As I've mentioned before, I'm working on a military sci-fi novel. Here's the trouble with the military: you don't spend all of your service, start to finish, with the same
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: How do you normalize a taboo custom in a setting that most readers would not agree with? This setting' world is populated by witch covens that function as both royal houses and political entities.
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: How do you tell the reader that the setting is normal modern day? I am getting some feedback on my writing but one of the questions that come back is that the readers are not sure about
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: Writing a short story set in a place I’ve never been I’m writing a science fiction type short story set in Germany (actually Stuttgart). To some extent the location isn’t that important-
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: Researching a hospital setting I want to use a hospital (specifically, Walter Reed in Bethesda) as a setting. How best do authors research the daily routine? Is there someone I can reach out
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: How to revise your "setting bible" When it comes to revising/reformatting a setting bible (for a video game) to make the setting more internally consistent and better organized, which place is
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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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: Is it Ok to make up places if I want the reader to think it’s set in the real world? What I’m doing is making a story in the medieval times and I wanted to make up a village and
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