: Re: Chapter titles or numbers? I am about to start writing a science-fiction novel, and having only ever written technical documents before, I have very little experience in the finer details of

Chapters don't need to have a title. "Chapter NN" is fine.
Or you can have only a title â€” that's generally when the title identifies some kind of shift, like a different time, location, or narrator/POV focus.
So you can have

Chapter 1
Chapter 6
Chapter 47

or
Location:

Vulcan, 2265

POV:

Brienne

Time:

A few hours later

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: "Literary criticism" and "editing feedback" are two entirely different beasts. Litcrit is about looking at an existing text and analyzing it. You look at the author's intent, you look at symbolism,

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: No, you can only do that if you're making some sort of break or shift in narrative style. If the story switches to a dream, for instance, or if the characters enter a Fae realm or another

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: In narration, stay in one tense. "She had green eyes" is fine, because your entire story is in the past tense — the "present-past," if that makes sense. If she had green eyes as a

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: Consequences. A strikes B. Even if B provoked A, A still gets arrested, processed, tried, convicted, and serves time. A gets grief from family and friends. A feels mixed anger, resentment,

: Re: Chapter titles or numbers? I am about to start writing a science-fiction novel, and having only ever written technical documents before, I have very little experience in the finer details of

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: "Literary criticism" and "editing feedback" are two entirely different beasts. Litcrit is about looking at an existing text and analyzing it. You look at the author's intent, you look at symbolism,

: No, you can only do that if you're making some sort of break or shift in narrative style. If the story switches to a dream, for instance, or if the characters enter a Fae realm or another

: In narration, stay in one tense. "She had green eyes" is fine, because your entire story is in the past tense — the "present-past," if that makes sense. If she had green eyes as a

: Consequences. A strikes B. Even if B provoked A, A still gets arrested, processed, tried, convicted, and serves time. A gets grief from family and friends. A feels mixed anger, resentment,

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