A lot of great explanations/examples already -- just wanted to add that telling is not always a bad thing and writers do not need to eliminate all...
I am not schizophrenic, but I've studied it a bit for my psych degree and I am mentally ill myself, so have experienced hallucinations and have...
Have her give him a gun or a knife only if she is the sort of character who really would give him that sort of thing. What she gives him might...
I would ask first why what you have now seems wrong to you. Is it unclear? Contrived? Not written in a compelling way? Is the structure...
I only occasionally read historical fiction, but from what I know about it the author researches as much as he can and takes creative liberty with...
That's interesting. Sometimes I go to settings where my story takes place and sit for a while and look, listen and feel, smell the local smells....
A prologue I will read before the book. A preface or introduction I will read after the book because sometimes the author gives too much away in...
Yes, these things happen. Joan Didion wrote an encouraging essay called Shitty First Drafts, good read if you can find it. I wrote 90,000 words...
Yep, it's agent --> editor --> publisher. The writer is the initial editor. People who can't do their own editing believe they need to pay for...
Good question. I'd tell myself to take an honest look at stories I'd written with the express purpose of being entertaining, and the practice...
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