: Re: Getting Inside Someone Else's Head A common problem for novice fiction writers, and one that I feel that I myself haven't quite graduated from, is always writing characters who are like the

One thing I would suggest is to try and give each character a different way of speaking. Dialog is one of the best ways to differentiate characters on the page. I personally talk out loud using different characters' voices, and in fact I don't feel like I have a handle on a character until I know how they talk.

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: Re: Getting Inside Someone Else's Head A common problem for novice fiction writers, and one that I feel that I myself haven't quite graduated from, is always writing characters who are like the

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: Verbosity: when's enough enough? In corporate life I've come across two general styles of writing: terse and cryptic or long and complete. In my own writing I tend to go too much in the

: How to handle foreign military ranks? Suppose you have a character who has a rank in a foreign military - say, Feldwebel Hans. That's the equivalent of a Sergeant. On one hand, having people

: Sympathetic portrayal of devout, rule-abiding characters I'm having trouble portraying religious, devout characters as protagonists or viewpoint characters. When I try, I get the sense that the reader

: How do I avoid a â€œmid-story info dump?â€ I am revising the manuscript for a novel. About a third into the story, a major turning point occurs when the main character (through whom the reader

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: Re: Getting Inside Someone Else's Head A common problem for novice fiction writers, and one that I feel that I myself haven't quite graduated from, is always writing characters who are like the

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: Verbosity: when's enough enough? In corporate life I've come across two general styles of writing: terse and cryptic or long and complete. In my own writing I tend to go too much in the

: How to handle foreign military ranks? Suppose you have a character who has a rank in a foreign military - say, Feldwebel Hans. That's the equivalent of a Sergeant. On one hand, having people

: Sympathetic portrayal of devout, rule-abiding characters I'm having trouble portraying religious, devout characters as protagonists or viewpoint characters. When I try, I get the sense that the reader

: How do I avoid a â€œmid-story info dump?â€ I am revising the manuscript for a novel. About a third into the story, a major turning point occurs when the main character (through whom the reader

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: How do I avoid a â€œmid-story info dump?â€ I am revising the manuscript for a novel. About a third into the story, a major turning point occurs when the main character (through whom the reader