It's called developing and outlining a novel. Most of us do it on paper, but if you can keep it in your head then fine. It would be unnatural,...
The summary you provided is not a complete plot. I can only offer the following suggestions: Your next step is to work out who your actual...
Whose viewpoint are you writing from? Judging from what you've posted here, you're using an omniscient narrator. It might help if you wrote each...
It doesn't need rectifying. Novels shouldn't have two main characters. Even if both character arcs are central to the plot, one of them should be...
Not if you intend to use it as an information dump. There's no reason why you shouldn't use first person, as long as you're aware of the...
Probably not, but there are sound commercial reasons why it matters in the case of debut authors. For example, the greater the number of words,...
yWriter is an excellent tool for organising your work, and it's free. If you think it's not for you then you can just uninstall it. Beware of...
Similar, but there is a difference. Focusing is something that could only be done through George's eyes, and therefore only described by him. On...
Yes, it is a change in POV. Although only brief, it would annoy me in a book. In order to retain the MCs POV you only need to state something...
"Is Profanity really needed?" No, but good grammar is. Check yours before worrying about anything else.
Use the sort of gramatical idiosyncrasies suggested by pacmansays ("I never did", etc.) and just state the region if you feel it needs...
I've read that editors refer to exclamation marks as 'screamers' because inexperienced writers tend to use them to show anger, i.e., "Go away, I...
Here's a link that might prove useful: http://www.medievalacademy.org/medacnews/news_frazer.htm I'm writing a medieval mystery novel that is...
Separate names with a comma.
