Another POV question Forgive me if this has been asked, but I took a look at a few of the other POV threads and none of them really answered my...
I always try to avoid adverbs personally. A few years ago I read "On Writing" by Stephen King and there is a whole section in it on avoiding...
It's different enough that I would go for it if I were you. Like Cogito said, it's all been done before. As you actually get on with the writing...
I occasionally feel the same way. What do I do to lose that feeling? I write. I go back and look at other things I wrote that I was pleased with...
The bad guy never thinks he's the bad guy...He/she does what they do because they think it's right. Unless your antagonist is some kind of demonic...
I've tried the fictional city thing, and for me anyway, it came out too strange for my story. It was my one attempt at Sci-Fi and I was trying to...
I always struggle with exposition too. Dialogue? I'm good. Action? Not great, but I can do it. Exposition? I struggle. My writing sometimes comes...
I never thought of it as a "portfolio" but I do have almost a decade of my own writing laying around in literally dozens of notebooks. And yes,...
Thanks everyone for some great tips. I went over my first draft last night and found that the character already was really unlikable, but at the...
Thanks all of you!
Thanks everyone for the great advice!
Thanks a lot! It's a long time until I'm anywhere near publication but the tips are a great help!
I like to think my writing is my own thing. Sometimes I see a sentence and think "Oh that sounds like something so and so would say." And...
I believe the average novel is something like 120,000 words. Now I'm not trying to write a novel right off the bat, but for some reason my writing...
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