Uh, thanks Maia. I do eventually plan on speaking to a literary attorney, I was more after the emotional side of things rather than the legal side...
I physically mark it with * if it's the same character's perspective but different times and settings. I would make it a whole new chapter if...
For those out there who have written memoirs or even fictional stories in which the characters are heavily based on people you know in real...
Just start writing it from whatever point you feel like - you'll know eventually where it should really start.
I wouldn't put down a book just because it has a prologue; I think that's incredibly sad that one would do that, the prologue might be really good...
Absolutely I do, I can't write in silence. I have a playlist created of all the songs that remind me of my novel, and I play that when working on it.
If you want to write it from multiple MC POVs then I would change it all to third person. I think that even if you make it that you jump heads...
I do not mind most embellishment of my characters from readers. Sometimes it's actually extremely useful, and it's an idea about that character...
Do you change your characters' names regularly? Without knowing what you write, fellow novelists in my critiquing group and myself have found that...
To just the OP, from someone who has had the above happen to me, it would be interesting in a story. Hurt like all hell at the time (from a...
In my novel the female MC goes through abuse (emotional) and she does grow from that, in how she deals with other people in her future. As I have...
Agreed - not only to OP but really anyone on this thread who the same might apply to. There is a difference between generalised statements, and...
Thanks @Renee J and @L.T. MC 'kind of' kicks him to the curb - she thinks he's kicked her to the curb when in reality he hasn't, but despite...
I disagree. I think the two lines should be separate to give more impact to the second line, which I feel that the OP is going for. If you want to...
Separate names with a comma.