The equivalent English phrase for "Je ne sais quoi" is probably "a certain something".
A great piece of advice I once saw said that to figure out what happens in between two big plot events, you should ask your character(s) what...
Either: a) Spend months researching online, buying guide books, history books, browsing photo websites, contact people on local forums and...
Write what you know. If you want to know what the experience of going to a big city nightclub is like, then go to a big city nightclub, keep your...
If you subscribe to the infinite universes (or multiverse) theory of time travel, I don't think you have anything to worry about. Your guy sees...
Obviously we don't know exactly what sort of fighting you are writing about (you mention "war" then give examples of fist fights) but one thing I...
Have read it (although seem to have given it away at some point) - I'd forgotten that it was first-person, as opposed to the third-person of Tom...
Good example. Tom Sawyer is probably a good counter-example where first-person would have been too contrived, while third-person works well.
My book is told entirely from the viewpoint of a single character, so is a prime candidate for first-person narration. However, he is uneducated...
So, no. :)
It depends on the viewpoint of your book. If you are telling the story from the point-of-view of a particular character (and I don't just mean in...
Frack.
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