My MC is intended to go through a big character development arc where he starts out a self-centered, flaky, spoiled teenager, and turns into a...
I hate first-person POV. It's narcissistic. Reading a First-Person story feels like I'm peacefully waiting for my bus, just trying to get home,...
I might be a weirdo, but I love stories that start with interesting exposition. I think Dragonriders of Pern has a couple of paragraphs explaining...
I'm pretty sure you're overthinking this. Suspension of disbelief hinges a whole lot on how much people are enjoying the story; I mean, I'm...
When that happens to me, it's always because it's a really image-heavy scene, and I'm just not that good at imagery. Introspection and action are...
"how he is going to find her? What clues does he find as he goes about his missions that slowly leads him to his sister?" This is your plot....
You'll probably have holes whether you outline or not; in my experience, cool details or new threads will come to you as you're writing and drag...
It's totally racist, but I'm working it as "America did a bad thing" so I think it's okay. We kind of get destroyed afterwards for being huge...
I'm having a logic-based plot hole problem. Here's the gist: Aliens show up in Washington DC during WWIII and say, "Hey guys, we need...
Kraken by China Mieville. It's... well. I don't care. I don't care what happened to the kraken. Or what's happening to London. I don't even care...
I like this one. It's very clear, it establishes that the narrator doesn't respect the weapon ("little" isn't a very respectful word), and it does...
That's what I do. It's very effective. I pretty much never get writer's block anymore, because I have so many things going at once that I can just...
This is all setup, which is an excellent place to be stuck. You're probably stuck because you have so many places this could go, and the number of...
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