Thank you all for answering and reaffirming what I should have known already. I had thought about people like Jhumpa Lahari, and wondered if...
Just curious, is generally considered taboo to start with a collection like this? I find that I am more interested, at present, with multiple...
Just make them different characters. Your goal should be for your readers to know the players in your tale. As long as Dace and Chase aren't...
If it wasn't meta enough you added another topic about how many topics there are.
Going on what starlingarcher said, is it just a train wreck because it is a first draft? Use the POV that best works for what you want to write,...
He gazed, like a cat gazing another cat that he is trying to ask out on a date, at the old wrinkled man. He was wrinkled because he was old....
Don't edit while you write, no matter how hard resist the urge. The first time you put your thoughts done on paper you won't have your dream...
If you don't want to develop them, make them metaphors.
As long as you take yourself seriously, or not so seriously depending on the type of story, the reader will accept your aliens. It's your story,...
Don't be afraid to hate one of your characters, you are creating characters that you like as such they will be similar. There is nothing wrong...
As long as you are not writing for a JRPG :D It's how you write it though, remember that.
As was mentioned before I too talk to myself, expect I'm not playing out a scene. I'm world building... in-universe. I put on an accent because...
Don't expect your writing to be good, then surprise yourself.
Thanks for all the answers. What you said gave me a sort of writing epiphany I was approaching this situation on how these characters would side...
Separate names with a comma.
