I agree with shadowalker that it should reflect who the character. In Britain just about everyone would say badly in this context apart from very...
This ^^. Write your dialogue, leave it a while, come back when it's fresh and only use "said' when it's not clear who is speaking. Less is more!...
I respect people who write longhand still. I wrote all my undergrad stuff longhand and then typed it up on old word processor. Postgrad stuff and...
Some good questions raised here! Big problems I have include endless pointless characters that have to be deleted, and this causes so much...
One of the big epiphanies I have had since starting to write fiction is how little the end product resembles what I had imagined it would be and I...
In academia one to nine are words and 10 and above are numerals.
And remember to round it off with how the power bankrupts itself in the process and totally fails to achieve its objectives on the other world!
So really it's a direct comment on US imperialism in the 20th and 21st centuries. I like it. You could describe a corrupt power collapsing under...
I have confidence that it will change in time, but only when two things happen: 1. The majority of commissioning editors and film industry...
OK, I see. I would argue against the US having too much freedom though. My view of the US is that the Constitution has been abused lately and US...
A nice post - thanks Chicken, especially the last bit. That really answers the point I made which seems to have been "disappeared" like a...
I would say this is more of an idea than a concept, and as an idea is sounds good, but is a little redolent of Star Wars in terms of the USA...
Interesting that you write this because I was just thinking about how writing reminds me of those computer games like the Sims. It doesn't sound...
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