: Re: Is it a bad idea to have a character that has an "imaginary friend"? In a story I'm working on, I'm adding a side character to travel with the two main characters because I realized I didn't

If you want your character to be cognizant of the fact they're speaking to an apparition, have them directly acknowledge that:

Why should I trust you? I know you're not real.

If you don't want your character to know (or believe) that they're talking to someone non-existent, you can have one of the two other main characters point that out.

Who are you talking to? That chair next to you is empty.

You could even do both, if you want to help provide this character credibility that they're not completely insane (aside from the fact that they converse with something imagined).

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: Once you refer to them formally once, you just refer to them by their last name for the rest of your piece.

: Yes, there are some open source novels. Some of the projects are being sold for money, so I guess they're not truly open source for this reason. Some of these projects aren't looking to

: How to end a story without reaching a new status quo? A popular writing theory states that any story worth telling describes the movement from one status quo to another, and that major uncertainties

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