I treat short stories like jokes, even if they are deadly serious: you set up the premise quickly, explain what needs to be said to get it to...
I usually consider the character carefully and see what other things I know about them that would affect their speech. When I have new characters...
I'm not sure of all the details since I only thought about it seriously when I was 20, and since I'd missed my chance I couldn't be bothered to...
I was born in the UK and have an American mother. I could have had US citizenship but I was pretty not bothered when I was a kid and didn't...
You've got it right in your "Or" examples: generally just put the new line between different people's dialogue, then if someone's doing a lot of...
Welcome to the forums. :D You know, they only took the auto-censor away recently... :P
Wit just happens: it's situational depending on what's going on. The best part about writing it is if you think about it like when people say...
It took me a long time to write stories set in anything even approaching the "real world" because I was pretty scared of this concept :P At least...
Agreed, it just totally depends on the story, usually with a scale of less characters to shorter things, more to longer things. With, of course,...
Can you include more scenes earlier on? Think if there are some other important plot points to cover, or at least foreshadowing you could get in....
Or maybe he's doing something that it's other people that don't approve of him, yet isn't too morally wrong from the general perspective. And he...
Hallo there and welcome!
The notes I have on my series: [IMG] It is a mixture of unholy mess and obsessive labelling. The paler the colour the more work I need to do,...
I have always been good at pressing on and finishing things... I don't like leaving a story unfinished and I will only do so if I find it...
Oh, I see, you read "incidentally" as "accidentally". Fair enough. :P P.S. is used when you think of more to say after you've already written...
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