: Re: Help! My Character is too much for her story! A while ago, I started writing a short story for a competition. It was supposed to be about four girls in a shared student apartment. The plan

I see two big options:

(1) I agree with @LaurenIpsum that if your given's are working, change them.

(2) Take this as an opportunity to develop one or more characters. Maybe the shy one needs to come out of the shell and put Vampire in her place. Maybe Vampire needs to learn something about peace and complacency.

Letting the characters grow are some of the most profound and engaging elements of storytelling, IMO.

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: Do hard to pronounce names break immersion? I have a character in my book named Jiolluav (with the correct accent, Zholl-you-of or /Ê’Ål-'yoo-Ã¤v/), and I've written my entire "novel" (it's a

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: Shortening a title without changing its meaning Essentially, I want to change: Managing a lot of people is a very difficult problem to: Lot of people, difficult problem I understand that

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: Re: Help! My Character is too much for her story! A while ago, I started writing a short story for a competition. It was supposed to be about four girls in a shared student apartment. The plan

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: Do hard to pronounce names break immersion? I have a character in my book named Jiolluav (with the correct accent, Zholl-you-of or /Ê’Ål-'yoo-Ã¤v/), and I've written my entire "novel" (it's a

: Referencing another company's product in my product manual I'm making a manual that references a product that is not mine. What would be the correct way to note this? I'll give an example of

: Shortening a title without changing its meaning Essentially, I want to change: Managing a lot of people is a very difficult problem to: Lot of people, difficult problem I understand that

: Punctuating narration In a passage of narration, how would one punctuate the following sentence? Italics or quotation marks? The boy walks across the living room as words like weapons, barricades

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: Do hard to pronounce names break immersion? I have a character in my book named Jiolluav (with the correct accent, Zholl-you-of or /Ê’Ål-'yoo-Ã¤v/), and I've written my entire "novel" (it's a