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: Is This An Acceptable Way Of Formatting Character Thoughts? Is this an acceptable introductory paragraph to a fictional character's memoir? I'm not sure if the first sentence should be in quotations
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: Where do the punctuation marks belong in this sentence? I'm writing an essay and I need to know whether the following piece of writing is okay to use and where to put punctuation marks? Perhaps
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: When to be literal and when to be metaphorical? I tend to chide myself when I explain things very literally. However, I've noticed some excellent literature uses some very literal explanation
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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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: Giving journeys a sense of scale Journeying is a central part of my novel. However, it gets really boring really quickly to describe them walking through the same landscape for a few weeks.
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: How to get across to the reader a character’s prophetic abilities My protagonist is speaking to my interpretation of the three fates from Greek mythology. He doubts their abilities until one
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: Is it okay to touch type with several different finger placements? I typed using a QWERTY keyboard for years since my childhood, but I never learned how to type properly and I just type the
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: How do you 'keep writing whatever happens'? I've heard the same thing from almost every writer whenever I ask a question or read an answer, and that thing is : "Just keep writing. It
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: Can the Hero's Journey be detrimental to the process of storywriting? When it comes to common writing advice, the Hero's Journey and Show, don't Tell, are the most common ones. The second one
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: Is it poor technique to use a different characters POV for only a short scene in a novel length piece of work? Basically what I'm wondering here is if it's distracting or poor technique to
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: What are some tips to keep on track of your plot I am a new writer writing a fantasy series, and earlier today I found myself thinking “Yay! I’m almost done with the main plot of my
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: How best to describe multiple alien species in a short amount of time? I am in the beginning stages of writing what might be a space opera. The story starts in a society that consists of
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: Explain the lack of commas in James Joyce's "The Dead" I am closely reading/editing (for my own benefit) the text of Dubliners, the collection of short stories written by James Joyce. In some
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: Writing for 2-3 different audiences at the same time - Approach? For a non-fiction book ... Inside every chapter, I need to address 3 separate "audiences" (sort of)... and I am having
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: What are some signs of a chosen one nebulous enough that they can be mistaken? The setup: We have a fantasy world. A while back (like, 30-100 years; not really sure yet) a prophecy was given
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: Is this couplet in iambic pentameter? Is this couplet in iambic pentameter? Sir thou are in love, take Cupid's wings fly to acquire the source of that feeling.
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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 to construct the "inner layers" of a character: a doubt on construction of the psyche of fictional characters and bibliography suggestions First of all, this is a question that was asked
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: How do you write a story with someone else overseas? My friend and I have wanted to write a story together for a while now. But she lives in a different country, so we are just confused
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: "He laughed a laugh." It seems correct to use a noun as a verb in the same sentence but should you? I'm struggling with the title question in some of my current writing, so should you? Or
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: What's the difference between Deus Ex Machina and coincidence? I've read 1, 2, 3 and of course, 4. Then I read 5 and 6 and even 7. I was blissfully ignorant about coincidence, DEM and plot-convenience;
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: How do I write less like a screenplay? I've come to notice I have a very specific manner of writing. Specifically, I've noticed that while I'm writing a book, I tend to pace and set up things
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: Misspelling and punctuation how to improve? Love telling/writing stories except I am the absolute worst at both spelling along with punctuation. Normally I care less about these things because
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: What to do with a story fragment? What should I do when I write an idea, for example a fight scene, but then I find it difficult to write a solution or way to switch from that idea? Should
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: What is the literary term for a technique where expectation is built up by hinting at the future? I've been reading a fantasy-novel series where the author cleverly seeds expectation in the
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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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: Doubt on the trope "power trio": what are their psychological basis? I will gather some non-standard characters in this question. Suppose then the Powerpuff Girls, Team Sonic, Totally Spies, Kanker
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: Changing Genres in the Middle of a Story Let's say the story was introduced as a romance, then somewhere in the middle it becomes a horror/thriller, would you immediately think it's bad? Would
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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 make a world building reveal relevant to the plot I am writing a story that is based on mythology. I have my own characters which have their own voice. One of those characters, the
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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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: What are the grammatical and stylistic alternatives to avoid overusing pronouns? Recently, I've developed a habit of writing he/she/him/her and overusing the character's name at the beginning of
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: How to list main ideas in a conclusion chapter without being repetitive with the wording? In the conclusions chapter of my book (technical, non fiction writing) I want to go over the main ideas
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: I want to incorporate a Men's Rights message into my book, how do I it properly? I want to add a message into my book about Men's Rights, but I don't want to do it in an obnoxious way.
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: Methodologies to organise writing/copy/editing tasks This question is all about methodologies to handle the workload efficiently for a freelance who deals with copy/editing of documents/articles. In
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: What could the Antagonistic Force be in a Crime Mystery? What could the Antagonistic Force be in a Crime Mystery/Police Procedural, where the culprit/murderer doesn't get revealed until nearer
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: Writing mumbled speech I've got a character that mumbles, and I'd like good advice on how to write his dialogue. He isn't a POV character, and I won't give him too much dialogue that would
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: Where to draw the line between bloody and purely repulsive? Violence and gore are an integral part of my story. However, I can usually keep the focus on the emotions, and the reactions, rather
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: How to convey suddenness when a lot is going on? So, here's a scene idea from yours truly: The giant eagle brown falcon, Horus, is fighting against a necromancer that can stop time. So the
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: How do I write dialogue as heard by a POV character who isn't fluent in the language? So I'm writing a story during the course of which my main, first-person-POV character learns another language,
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