Good advice guys thanks. I probably will post a little bit of it in the workshop to get more concrete feedback. I don't think it's that she...
I finished the second draft of my first short story recently. I handed it out to some friends and family and got pretty positive remarks. I showed...
Writing more viewpoints will always be more difficult, but if it's done right then it'll most likely make your story better. It's best to start...
Take everything a writing teacher tells you with a pinch of salt. Sometimes what they say will resonate with you and you'll think "yeah, that...
I found this thread helpful. I had no idea that the 80k-100k was such an essential thing for first time writers. I thought these answers would've...
Maybe you have a love of stories and have a short attention span. I have a short attention span too and it used to be hard for me to read a lot....
A lot of the advice I've had is to steer away from prologues, but some great novels include prologues so it's probably down to personal...
Is it a bad to introduce your book with scenes taking place years before the main conflict of your story? I want to show the scenes because I...
Thank you, that seems much more natural and fluid. I guess like Ed said I need to stop using the Show don't Tell as a rule, and figure out when to...
Thanks for the answers everyone. One thing that is frying my head at minute is the show don't tell rule when it comes to character. Say Bruce...
I've written my first chapter, of my first draft, of my first novel. 3000 words in counting (It's a fantasy story by the way). It starts with the...
Actually only the mirror world in the 6th season happened after they died. The other stuff that happened on the island was all real. The reason I...
Stephen King says the first word that comes to your head is often the right word. You use a thesaurus when you can feel like there's a word at the...
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