My characters always "lose" and there are plenty of examples of this in literature. The important thing is that you make the loss feel satisfying...
I've given books I loved to family and friends, books that were published and financial successes, and they never bothered finishing them. In some...
I think this advice is completely useless honestly. Maybe it works for Hollywood-style movies where you want to make them really easy to market,...
My OCD is very mild and almost non-existent these days, but when I used to have this problem when I was younger, it helped me to obsess on other...
Endurance. Continuing when no one is telling you to with no certainty of success for months and months and month.
I think there is a clarification that can bridge a lot of the misunderstandings here. Phraseologically it is correct that "butterflies in the...
"With his gravity-defying side-sweep contrasting his always dirty nails, he was the strangest boy she had ever met. Her stomach churned." Let's...
A fixed expression is the same as an idiom. A lot of idioms are clichés, yes, but not per definition. If you write, "It was raining cats and...
In my view, it's not a cliché. It's simply the common chain of words, "a fixed expression", for a certain phenomenon there is no easier way to...
I hated the Cursed Child too. It felt like reading a Harry Potter Disney ride. It was just lots of famous scenes from the original books either...
I'm just kind of amazed that people think twice about this. The Matrix literally lifted both the concept of a simulated word and its name from...
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