Should be fine, so long as it's a one-time switch. Flitting between 1st and 3rd person throughout the story is bad practice, but using it as a...
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Croga, see the second paragraph of my reply. So long as you're building the story in the first two chapters and it's pushing the plot forwards,...
Note that 'reader-character connection' doesn't necessarily have to be a positive connection. If you can establish the reader's anger or fear of...
I'd imagine 'Death' as something/somebody with meaning to the character. For example, if I were dying of old age, I might expect to see my...
Currently very into Phantom of the Opera for mood music. When the lyrics become too distracting, I switch to Enya or the Chrono Trigger...
Here's a golden one for you... I just tried running the title "Visions and Miracles" through one of those online translators, translating it...
Thanks for that. The book of the Curious Incident, however, is written without emotion.
Have you read "The curious incident of the dog in the night time" ? It is written from the POV of an autistic child so he surveys the world with...
In the fantasy genre, you have such fine examples as... - Chivalrous knight - Power-hungry wizard - Rebellious princess - Kitchen boy with a rare...
If you are a competent enough writer to construct a complex story in which many plots intertwine, then your 'clever' character can have a handle...
Evolution and mutation go hand in hand. Evolution is a theory which says that random events just happen, and the useful ones stick around....
...And again, Tyrion Cersei Arya Daenerys Jon Snow Five is fine.
Interesting thread. :) Heather, even though the content of future stories might be new because certain technologies haven't been invented yet,...
If you're worried about political correctness, "African-American" is often more insulting than "black" because you are making an assumption that...
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