Sure, that's a lovely vision of the future. A kind of grand, luxury communism, or at least it appears so without any history about how the planet...
The nature of freedom, and how it is secured in a technologically advanced setting, is a political topic. Just because you believe your political...
Ah yes, the future according to Ronald Reagan. Learn to code. The whole point of engineered scarcity in developed nations is to enslave people...
Social mobility and access to basic necessities are the key in my opinion. Sometimes in these stories, people being disenfranchised or used as...
Just do it like Star Trek and cut to commercial or switch POV whenever something emotionally tense happens, so that you don't have to resolve it.
I don't think you want an "and then" moment here. He was getting on the plane, and then a new situation appeared that made him change his mind....
I didn't understand the flashback / flash forward timeline until the princess was lost in the forest and they explicitly state the Witcher is her...
Another fad was/is magic with hard rules. The author makes up a magic system, and then the system is used in a surprising way at the climax. I was...
We have talked about the Hero's Journey a lot on here, and I know a lot of regulars here have pretty nuanced views on story structure, so I'm sure...
Since I write action heavy stuff, I try to tap the brakes every other scene in order to give some contrast and breathing space for the reader, so...
I like this video: Anatomy of Chaos by Adam Skelter [MEDIA]
I usually have a working title. Like, my current one is "Vicarious," but I know that won't be the final title. When I'm finished with it and want...
I think a trope is any identifiable story element you could have seen before. An inciting incident is a trope. A story coming to a climax is a...
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