I'm not interested in being published, so this is more of a personal question, and something I'm just naturally curious about. Most of the...
Hi all, I'm a new writer. Though I have always written as a hobby, I'm now trying to make sure my writing is readable and perhaps even enjoyable....
In my fantasy WIP, I have a shit ton of characters. Essentially a bunch of women are kidnapped and put through a series of trials orchestrated...
So in the novel that I'm working at now, I have a lot of characters. There's 30 of them that are very important (both main and supporting...
Hi everyone, Long-time reader, first-time poster. I am midway through the first draft of an adventure story (I refuse to call it a book as it...
The story I'm currently working on is set in a fictional world with very few (almost none) fantastic elements, and I already have a very large...
Haven't yet worked out if this is older middle grade or young adult--I want to get it all written first and figure out the audience, then trim it/...
I know I have seen it on here before, but I have to ask. I am almost done with my first novel, well the first draft anyway, but I have 5 books I'm...
I received a comment the other day that there were too many characters in my story. My defense is, most of the earlier ones are dead, so forget...
As the title said: How many is too many? At what point have you found that you are approaching territory where your characters are essentially...
I'm currently doing a rewrite of the first half of my novel. It's a high fantasy adventure type and as I go, more and more characters keep...
So as of right now, I'm toying with the idea of having either three or six POVs. The three I need to have for each separate plot thread; a king,...
I was reading an article about adivce for starting out your novel, and one of these tidbits of advice spoke of not introducing too many characters...
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