alexchenco

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May 11	comment	Placing similes at the beginning and at the end of a sentence Thank for the suggestion. I updated the question.
May 3	comment	Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information I finished the story (in case someone wants to read it): alexandrochen.quora.com/The-Flying-Stone
Apr 16	comment	Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information @S.F. Wow, I take it back. I'm amazed of your knowledge/logic.
Apr 13	comment	Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information @S.F thanks I'm amazed of your knowledge on wine.
Apr 12	comment	Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information @SF. Which wine will immediately tell the reader that he/she is reading a contemporary novel? (so I ca use it in the future).
Apr 11	comment	Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information I added another chunk of text. I hope it's enough to expose the new mystery.
Apr 11	comment	Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information Well, after the first paragraph finishes, there's a new mystery: is the stone really up in the mountain? (I guess this is more obvious later).
Apr 11	comment	Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information @Jay Thanks a lot (Funny, I wrote brought up the subject in the first draft and removed up in the second).
Apr 11	comment	1st person story, but the main character will die in the end and some of the story needs to be told after his death. How to solve this problem? @Jay But the atheist would had made the best of his life while alive. Since he knows that there's only one life, and there's nothing else after it. By the way, does the game Devil May Cry has something to do with Dante's Inferno? The protagonist's name is Dante.
Apr 9	comment	1st person story, but the main character will die in the end and some of the story needs to be told after his death. How to solve this problem? @Lauren Ipsum It was an atheist joke: heaven and hell only exist for those who believe in them. I guess it didn't work out very well.
Apr 8	comment	Writing in second language @Des Well, I'm pretty sure Spring and Winter also occurs in your country. Use the English language to write about things that happen around you.
Apr 8	comment	Is it unusual for a flashback to have a very long dialogue? @Outlier Thanks for spotting that!
Mar 30	comment	Tips for writing sentences like a native speaker Thanks a a lot! I'll check the video.
Feb 6	comment	Putting a dialogue a tag before a quote @SF. I do use X did this. "..." and "..." X did this. "..." regularly. It's just that sometimes I wonder if I can omit X said, "..." completely.
Feb 2	comment	It is a sign of bad writing to have many scenes that are disconnected with the main plot? @Neil Fein Not hard to read but the feeling of "discontinuity." And yes maybe dullness.
Jan 27	comment	What work better for the following piece of writing? Past or present tense? I finished the short story: alexandrochen.com/existential-fiction/washing-machine (in case someone wants to read it).
Jan 26	comment	What work better for the following piece of writing? Past or present tense? @Neil Fein I guess I want some sense of immediacy in the opening paragraph. I'm not sure about the rest (I haven't thought about the rest of the story). I think I don't want to use first-person since I want to hide the main character's true feelings (e.g. she's scared of getting engaged).
Jan 26	comment	What work better for the following piece of writing? Past or present tense? @Neil Fein How about now?
Jan 10	comment	How to keep the reader engaged in a novel where “not much happens”? @Kristof Claes Actually I started writing after reading his work. Well, In those books, many things "happen" in my opinion (e.g. Naoko dies, Sumire disappears, and Kafka has sex with his mom and 'kills' his dad). But I think I know what you mean.
Dec 30	comment	Is it a bad practice to occasionally add first-person narrative to third-person narrative? Thanks for the feedback! (Man, writing is harder than I imagined).