God, I love you. :D *flees to Barnes & Noble* (That's not to say I'm opposed to more suggestions, though. Chime in for free cookies, people. ;))
(It's 1 am, so please excuse the brevity.) Mystery fans/writers: Do you have any recommendations for novels or series, preferably series, that...
The Things They Carried The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Treasure Island The John Rain canon The Sherlock Holmes canon The Great Gatsby The Sun...
Have to catch a train, but curse you Kas for making me rethink so much. I'm trying to design his methods so that they're affected by his motives,...
*sigh* With all due respect, Cogito, I disagree with most of the post quoted below. But I will do my best to sugarcoat my response. There is a...
What Kathryn said. When thriller writers Lee Child and Barry Eisler politicized their novels, fans took offense. Giving your characters political...
Go to your local bookstore. Bring a piece of paper. Find the writing reference section. Look for a book on character and POV. If there is one,...
No, you wouldn't. It'd be perfectly reasonable given your situation. Yup, but that doesn't necessarily mean the impersonal narrator should...
The writing matters more than the concept. That said, I honestly don't care much for it but that's probably because I (a) don't read romance and...
The question's already been adequately answered, but I can't be bothered to get my ass in gear and read the thread so I apologize if I'm...
Then my thumbs are up. :)
Yeah, adverbs are frowned upon by the majority. Adjectives are frowned upon by many as well. Descriptive dialogue tags like "bellowed" are also...
In The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne is called "the patient" until he learns his name (his alias, to be fair). I think you give him some objective...
Assuming they fit, fifty is perfectly fine as long as the story isn't so short that the character:content ratio is confusing for the reader. Look...
Separate names with a comma.
