So I'm in the market for a terminal illness, not for me but for my character. Normally I'd try to find something myself but today I thought I'd...
Generally speaking, you want to keep it a secret if a character dies or not, to the reader, because otherwise, it would take away the emotional...
Hello! I've had major writers' block for soooo long. I've just recently /finally/ figured out a plot line worth digging into and writing, but I...
To those with horsey knowledge, I have a character who has to kill a horse who has been hamstrung in a battle, there are no firearms in my fantasy...
The protagonist and his brother are Indians. The brother is older than the protagonist by 6 years. He is a model student and a devoted son. But...
Hello. My WIP needs an illness that was undetected until it escalated to point of no return. Patient needs to be lucid but tired. Was hospitalized...
(This could just as easily go under character development, so please move it if you see fit.) I have an idea bouncing around for (what I think is)...
If you learned you had a terminal illness, or if you contracted some progressively-debilitating disease, would you do your best to finish your...
Hello again! I'm back again trying for another story idea. This was an idea I came up with a long time ago, wrote a bit for but then hit a wall in...
Hello everyone! This is research for my new story. Due to certain circumstances the main character only has a short amount of time left to live....
hello everyone! I've recently had a story idea and I was wondering what you all thought of it. I've decided to create a society in which...
Okay, so my main issue currently is the intro to my sci fi military story that I've pretty much fleshed out the most major key points, maybe four...
I had no idea he was even ill. He was one of the few family members of the powers that be who served in Iraq. I always respected him and Biden for...
Alright so this is a story I came up with but I'm trying to focus on one so this one has to go on the back burner for quite a while, but I wanted...
Title says it all. I've scowered the web for general ideas, and haven't found too much about this subject. I mean, foreshadowing a death is easy....
I've been recently playing with the idea of writing a story in which the protagonist dies partway through. However, I want to write in first...
Right now I'm outlining a sci-fi type of story, and I originally set out to have a hard-boiled, noir-ish kind of tone. My problem right now is...
MC's mother starts taking his pills to help her cope with stress. Her child (18, lives at home) has physical and mental issues, so these could be...
Hello, fellow writers! Glad to meet you all. Writing to ask for your honest opinions and suggestions regarding a work in progress! >> Currently...
I think we've all done it to some degree or another, based a major character on somebody we know or once knew. Or we've taken bits and pieces and...
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