: Re: How to stay excited when writing about the necessary? I practice my writing skills by writing fan fiction. It's a great medium: no deadlines or word goals, and you get free feedback. The only

I agree with Galastel, but if you must incorporate creations not your own, ask yourself this: what excited you about this game? What characters and situations are your favourites and let those rekindle your enthusiasm.

What is it about the lore that you like? Just ponder the positives and why it was this world that you decided to toss your hapless fellow into and not another.

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: You do it by limiting the narrator's gaze. You can describe things from the point of view of one or more characters, who haven't yet figured out the secret identities of the celebrity characters.

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: What is meant by "purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous" actions? In his "Characters" essay, Samuel R. Delany purports there are three types of actions to characters: "purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous."

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: Effectively conveying an unreliable narrator I have been working on a post-apocalyptic novel for about a year. My female narrator/protagonist, named Eris, was isolated for almost all of her life

: Re: How to stay excited when writing about the necessary? I practice my writing skills by writing fan fiction. It's a great medium: no deadlines or word goals, and you get free feedback. The only

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: Does this scene fail the Bechdel test? My novel has approximately a dozen women in it, but they donâ€™t tend to talk to each other. Most of them are separated geographically or philosophically

: You do it by limiting the narrator's gaze. You can describe things from the point of view of one or more characters, who haven't yet figured out the secret identities of the celebrity characters.

: What is meant by "purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous" actions? In his "Characters" essay, Samuel R. Delany purports there are three types of actions to characters: "purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous."

: Effectively conveying an unreliable narrator I have been working on a post-apocalyptic novel for about a year. My female narrator/protagonist, named Eris, was isolated for almost all of her life

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