Original means the person reading it has never read anything like it. With milions of books being written, no one can be familiar with them all....
I just rewrote the first chapter of my first novel, "Flight after Death". (Now I am rewriting the ending!) I read a book called "Techniques of the...
If I wrote this story, I would have a fossil hunter find the last dinosaur fossil - the youngest fossil ever found. That fossil would have...
My idea for a novel consisted in three parts: setting, conflict and goal. * The setting was to be the afterlife, in a city full of courthouses....
You need to understand conflict. Good stories have lots of conflict, but not all of it is physical. So add different types of conflict: *...
I prefer the accidental approach. Three and a half years ago I began work on what was supposed to be a single fantasy novel. After three more...
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