I agree with everyone's opinion that descriptions should be as significant as possible. I can recall passages of Eragon (from back in the day)...
"Non-evil" bad guys are the best, in my opinion! In the real world, opposing forces generally believe that their side is the right side. But of...
Does nothing at all interesting happen regarding Anne's introduction before Duncan arrives?
Yeah, why would anyone object to a first-person narrative? I don't understand what the problem is.
The more complicated the villain, the better, in my opinion. You should definitely look deeper into the character before you start writing him,...
The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are classic examples. But lots of things have been done more than once. Just make...
Do a little research in linguistics if you want the language to sound legitimate, and I agree that J.R.R Tolkien is a good place to draw...
Yeah, I find that really fascinating, even though I don't really care so much about what is feminist and what is not. Just because a character has...
If you'd like it to potentially sell in a young adult market, and if the themes of the novel are appropriate for that market, then I don't think...
I think that the thread of human emotion ties us all together tighter than we think. There's a lot of material that can be tapped into, even if...
Part of the reason why young people are less independent today is that society kind of forces them to prolong dependency in exchange for later...
Is it a physical object, like a stone or an amulet, that he needs to find? Something that he would definitely have to view to recognize? Part of...
I think part of what made Voldemort so ominous, even in the background, is that you knew that he had some horrifying and unprecedented powers that...
Hemingway said that he wrote The Sun Also Rises in about six weeks, and The Old Man and the Sea in eight. I guess that they're fairly short...
I think that a vague (or broad) reference to location would be fine. Although saying something like "near Dublin," for example is more interesting...
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