An inciting incident is not just something happened to the character, she has to choose to make something happen. If someone gets kidnapped in the...
The Hunger games reminded me of Lord of the flies.
Prologues need to be mini-stories, capable of standing on their own. Therefore, you need to plan them as carefully as you would a short story. If...
Is that legal? That sounds like price fixing to me. Although as I understand it, Amazon ISBNs can't be read by retail scanners. (The two...
If you're paying a site to publish a book, that's a vanity press operation, a scam in most cases. Legit sites like CreateSpace and Lulu take a...
Most people want to 'do the right thing'. But the 'right thing' is different to everyone. And some of it is evil. The Nazis thought the 'right...
I know I mention him a lot, but if you want to see fictional evil genius, study John Liebert of Monster. (He's my favorite villain.) He's calm,...
The thing is you can't be fair to everyone, so a true Utopia is impossible. For example, in my state, a service dog is a person, it can go...
That type of character is possible. It's basically an extension of a 'butcher' but he kills humans, not animals. (I don't mean to sound anti-meat...
Sounds like you're stereotyping us humans. Now, granted, as a species, we've done horrific things, to each other, other races, and probably to an...
I love questions like this. A story that's a single genre is boring. Besides, no great story is a single genre. Brave new world is a dystopia....
A book can be religious or spiritual without being classified as 'Christian book' . Most true Christian books have a set of rules and formulas...
The thing is, successful authors sell their books multiple places; Barnes & noble, Ibook store, their own website, Google bookstore, Lulu, and...
You're going to get a lot of hate mail. Maybe even some death threats since it's a hot button topic. But there are readers out there for you....
You read what you enjoy, and write what you know. If you know dark, then your story will be dark. I write horror, but I watch Rom-coms. (I can't...
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