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Oct 26 |
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Adding Detail/“Filling” the story More general: Describe the details your character finds unusual. If he sees someone with t-shirt and jeans and thinks "Just another of these dumb-minded uniformist" then it tells us something about the character and the surrounding which creates atmosphere. The character's feelings make the atmosphere. |
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Oct 25 |
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Is the ambiguity in my story the salt which makes it tasty or just plain frustrating? deleted 33 characters in body; edited tags; edited title |
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Oct 24 |
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The Best Title for my Skill Set Isn't that a guy running a school? |
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Oct 22 |
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Is an anthology a valid NaNoWriMo entry? Who cares? Write! |
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Oct 22 |
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Is an anthology a valid NaNoWriMo entry? deleted 122 characters in body; edited title |
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Oct 21 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Writing a very complex relationship |
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Oct 18 |
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How to write time duration correctly Not sure about your last sentence. I understand your math approach (fraction), but shouldn't here the linguistic approach be considered? If you see it as an enumeration than an "and" before the last item is the standard way to do it (so not mandatory). Besides that I will never get used to the English habit putting commas before "and" and "or". Even we do not do that (at least not in enumerations). |
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Oct 18 |
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Is a chapter the equivalent of a sequence? Thanks, @Lauren, for the roast legend. Didn't know that and looked it up. Hilarious! |
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Oct 18 |
answered | Is a chapter the equivalent of a sequence? |
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Oct 17 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Oct 17 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 16 |
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Problems with character development? possible duplicate of Resources for character development |
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Oct 13 |
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Starting Out - Plot + Charaters by Documentaries @ChrisOkyen, well, you have a story in your mind and what you mention about your story makes me think, that it will be a bigger one. So I advise to write that story. You can write short stories with other topics, but I guess your mind will always go back to that big story. That's what I mean with distracting. And use all sources of inspiration you can get. (Probably there is a misunderstanding here.) |
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Oct 13 |
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How long is a single-title romance novel supposed to be? @Aarthi, you are wrong, there is no standard range. If it sells, it sells, if it doesn't, it doesn't. I tried to show you, that you ask the wrong question. If you think you have to meet an arbitrary word count, then you are on a road of suffering. Your choice. My answer stands. |
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Oct 13 |
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Starting Out - Plot + Charaters by Documentaries @ChrisOkyen, I'm not a fan of writing other stuff than the one running through your head. You can start short stories, sure, but your thoughts will always get distracted to the "real" thing in your head. Write it down, start with it. Most likely it will be bad, but so what? If you start writing every day other ideas will pop up, which will sound more intriguing. Even if not, you can rewrite the whole story after you gained experience with ten more novels. BTW writing does not get along well with impatience. |
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Oct 12 |
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Word Choice: When something negative happens that changes your perspective for the better Pegasus effect. |
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Oct 12 |
answered | Starting Out - Plot + Charaters by Documentaries |
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Oct 12 |
answered | How long is a single-title romance novel supposed to be? |
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Oct 11 |
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Deciding the setting: real or invented? @Alenanno, it has to do with a psychological aspect of being creative which is hard to explain (at least for me). The more you are afraid of to do something, the more likely it is that this thing is exactly what you should do. Conventional wisdom suggests to take the easier path if you have the choice between two options. But the easier path is not as satisfying as the difficult one. That means, what you really want to do is in most cases the difficult (frightening) alternative. Read "The War of Art" by S. Pressfield to get the idea. |
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Oct 9 |
answered | Deciding the setting: real or invented? |
