The people in our writing group use all the methods already described here, as well as, for example, going through Greek or Latin or Sanskrit...
Past tense seems way more natural and I immediately get into the story if it's past tense. Present tense seems awkward or unnatural, but just at...
Somehow your post reminded me of Phantom of the Opera, where two alpha males are both after one insecure lady (Christine). The Phantom is one of...
You seem to have very good instincts regarding your hesitancy on adding magic to this story idea. I agree completely with QueenOfPlants.
Congrats on your programmer wanting your video game story!
Some mysteries kind of start with the ending and work backwards. The opening scene is a murder scene with a mysterious person standing somewhat...
Hydration makes a huge difference in how long starvation takes to have detrimental effects. If the victims have water or certain other liquids,...
We sometimes do clustering on the word or phrase that's almost but not quite what we're looking for. The Writing2 site (from the University of...
Is "I'm always right" being turned into an adjective to describe "ego"? Similar to "he jumps on everything" is turned into an adjective to...
What we "don't" do is tell too many non-writers about it. In other words, at Thanksgiving dinner, we don't tell all our guests what our latest...
BayView, I think you made a good choice to make her "have" to leave it behind instead of choosing to. As a reader, I'd want a very convincing...
Lots of great ideas here. It seems almost all these could work, because it's about more time needed with this character with any type of...
Separate names with a comma.
