I'm interested.
I'm an Spanish writer and I decided to translate one of my books by myself instead of paying someone else to do it for me. So I did it, but I...
OurJud: You need to send what you have to other people and ask them for ideas regarding expanding the story. Also think about it yourself... and...
Tenderiser, nobody is telling you how to do anything, so feel free to do what best works for you and take whatever advice you feel useful. If you...
When we split our stories in chapters, it is because (correct me if I'm wrong) we believe the story can be paused at that time. In certain...
Put yourself in this situation: the story is great and you're enjoying it. You already read 250 pages and the book is 600 pages long. Now you...
I don't think most people think like you, including writers.
That's a nice way to put it. Using time instead of number of pages. Ten minutes seems like a fair request even for the lousiest reader one may have.
In Stephen King's IT, there's a sex scene in which a whole gang of kids have sex with an underage girl at her request for no good reason at all...
I have a novel with pretty long chapters. Since I didn't feel like I could split them in different chapters for a variety of reasons, I decided to...
I agree with you, Christine. Something around those lines should be fine, rather than 30 pages long chapters... in my opinion.
What's the ideal lenght for a chapter in your opinion? I was thinking that, to the reader, finishing a chapter is an important part in the...
I was thinking about it... If we were in the 40s, for example, making a refference to oral sex would have been tremendouly controvertial. This...
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