Rajit, surely there are situations where you feel or act differently. Think about them when you try to imagine how your characters feel and act.
By spending massive amounts of money on the autobahns and the military, the Nazis also boosted the economy and solved the unemployment problem....
I'm a puppet master. I allow my characters free will, as long as the plot moves where I want. Mua ha ha ha ha...
Because from above, the lies you tell your people seem so thin, you start wondering how long it'll take before they see through them. For...
I think it's more likely they'd help a child -- we have an instinct to protect children, even if the child happens to have fearsome supernatural...
By "complete" I mean that all conflicts in the book are tired up. If a question isn't asked in the first book, it doesn't need to be answered in...
I agree. "To boldly go" is more effective than "To go boldly" because the former has better rhythm.
Write them as individuals with individual, realistic character traits, and I think the "girly" and "boyish" traits will fade.
Strunk & White's Elements of Style has been criticised for being inconsistent, grammatically incorrect, and based on the authors' own (faulty)...
Check out a site for e-book self-publishing, where people can just put up their own manuscripts without going through an editor. If the quality...
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I haven't read Stieg Larsson's books, but that does sound like Sweden. The vast majority of couples move together first and marry later, perhaps...
That may be treading the line of historical fiction. It doesn't change the fact that Christoffer Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492, but it...
I write chapter names for my (planned) novel simply because I enjoy coming up with titles that reveal just enough. E.g, if one of my characters...
Yes, actually. Foolishness and its consequences can make for very good stories.
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