If your main character has no needs or wants, about all you can do is describe trees. I'd rework the character somehow.
We can interview whomever we like, I suppose, but the most interesting people to write about probably won't be very helpful. A lot of them will...
If you're going tom describe the characters physically, I think a slow accumulation of details is best. Otherwise it starts to read like a suspect...
No, no, that's a bad idea. If you write a character close to her age that's too different from her, she'll assume that she's not good enough and...
I used to work at a store in a Hispanic neighborhood. The company decided to have a monthly senior citizens' day thing. I called it Dia de los...
This may be really helpful or totally useless. I don't write fantasy, sci-fi or historical fiction, and none of what I write "needs" to take...
It is a little odd that a civilization from the other side of the galaxy would universally speak grammatically correct, unaccented English as a...
I'm mostly done with a short story revolving around the romantic relationship between two characters. One is female, but the narrator's gender...
I can find most of those places on a map, but I can't tell you where the line is between depicting them realistically and stereotyping them. If...
What happens in real life isn't the same as what works on a page (or on screen). But believable and realistic are not the same thing. The dialogue...
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