Unless you're a full-blown linguist like Tolkien who can pull it off, I'd recommend refraining from actually inventing a new language. Instead, if...
It really depends what kind of story you're trying to write. If the plot centers around action and your story is filled with fight scenes where...
American Psycho? The book not the movie. The narrator is a true monster and is completely unsympathetic. Fascinating and deeply unsettling story.
Christopher Nolan's debut film, Following, has fifteen characters listed in the credits. Only one of them has a name (simply "Cobb"), and it's not...
Or you could have both at once ;) Maybe the fictional religion is intertwined with the government and they live in a theocracy. Tyrinia's...
Sorry for the confusion, Kate, that post was directed at Link. I don't think empires or oppressive regimes are overdone necessarily, though it...
...So you're telling me that evil empires are overdone but oppressive regimes based on Nazi Germany are not?
I will say that as far as stream-of-consciousness goes, the style of To the Lighthouse does come across as quite feminine. Nothing wrong with...
Look, if you don't like description, you shouldn't spend time on it. You shouldn't do anything in writing or art because you feel like you have to...
It's good that your character is finding her own way, even if it's not the way you planned. It makes life more interesting for your characters and...
An antagonist doesn't need to be a bad guy, he just needs to conflict with/oppose the protagonist somehow. They can both be good guys if you want....
You don't need to come up with an ominous-sounding name to make him ominous. If you write it the right way, any name can become ominous. Look at...
Ultimately it depends what you're writing. Dan Brown and other thriller authors can afford to have tons of viewpoint characters because he can...
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