: Re: How many characters can I introduce in the first chapter before the reader gets overwhelmed? Assuming that all of the characters are unique, interesting, and stand out from the rest of the cast,

In the first chapter, you need to introduce the protagonist and antagonist.

If you consider the story a "duel" between these two, you might introduce their "seconds." That brings the total to four.

There might be a fifth, (and possibly sixth) character that gives the early part of the story its "flavor." But that's pretty close to the max.

Here, I'm not counting incidental or throwaway characters. For instance, my screenplay opens with five partners of the firm, but only two of them, the heroine and the "big boss" (a second) really matter; the other three are "throwaways." The hero and his "second" are also introduced.

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: For trilogies, is there any order of time periods the story should follow that is considered more appropriate? Like totally chronological (starting in the beginning of the world's story events

: Do you have any tips on describing dialogue? Specifically, how to describe a person's voice or tone of speaking, and ideas on how dialogue should be formatted.

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: What I did in one of my stories is to have the character change her mind about "fate," even while believing in "signs." Briefly, my heroine meets a man who echoes something she did before

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