Sounds like procrastination. Drawings and sculptures aren't going to make you work more vivid. Why not try ... uhm, writing, so you can really see it.
This is kind of what it means to be a writer. Not to make you feel bad, but I'm sure everyone grapples with how to describe something. You just...
Pretty sure the OP was concerned more with aesthetics than guidelines.
Good Third Person Limited does it all the time, though the thoughts are often paraphrased. I can't think of many occasions where a directly quoted...
Doesn't matter if the two look like one because the line is long. The appearance is going to change depending on window size, page size, font...
Well, what else do you call it? I mean if we're being honest here ... For example, you suggest that people are nice for selfish reasons and then...
So much ideological pap and half-baked ideas here that it is difficult to know where to begin. I mean it really is quite impressive. First of all...
It's not true that editing-as-you-write will result in unfinished work, and it's also not true that postponing revision until the first draft is...
Sounds like you're trying too hard to get it right on the first draft. I used to have the same problem. You have to let yourself write badly. Then...
It's very easy: think of Third Person as a sliding scale. At one end is LIMITED, where the story is told from one pov and we (the readers) only...
Both versions are fine, both interesting in different ways. The hook in the second example is in the very last line. The short declarative...
Seriously? It's one sentence. Getting 'more into the character' is not going to happen in one sentence. Some awesomely bad advice in this thread....
Sure, and music should be in 4/4 time. Thankfully many different tenses and viewpoints exist, and certain writers are daring enough to use them,...
The third sentence, with the -ings, is not really present. Still reads as past. But, to answer your question, shifting tenses is not only...
Separate names with a comma.