Well someone kinda hit the nail on the head with Mass Effect and Joker. His disease should have been curable in the womb but it's possible that...
Those are all calls to adventure. You don't really enter act two until after the first threshold guardian. He is the one/thing seperating you...
I completely agree with this. I see too many first drafts that could have major problem fixes if the person simply re-reads it outloud to...
The novel I'm working on currently has a particularly gruesome scene involving the main characters leg getting pretty much ripped off. The story...
I think with having multiple villians you still need to have a single plot. If you dilute your story with too many plots then they all become...
I see cringeworthy dialogue a little different. To me cringeworthy dialogue is hearing someone say something that nobody would ever say. One...
Actually, I kinda second this. Part of what I love about writing is getting deep into character and constructing the scenes in my head. I...
Submitting your work to a critique group without first giving it a read over. I mean seriously. Sometimes it feels like the writing that gets...
People will tolerate anything as long as something likeable remains. Just look at Dexter.
27 and writing.
Just finished VA Frostbite and Getting into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist can learn from Actors last night. Today I'm hoping to finish The...
Yes, while a thesaurus can be misused it's not hard to use as long as you have an iota of common sense. Lets use the walk example. Each of these...
Ok, I've seen a few other posts and I have some more to add. A scene doesn't always need to be completely disturbing to jar your readers either....
May also want to pickup books on characterization. I just read a couple great ones because I wanted me characters to get deep as possible.
This exactly. Now, someone compared this to the use of Ford in a novel. This isn't at all the same. Even if the Ford truck is somehow a...
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