A pivotal scene in my story involves a supernatural dragon-demon thing showing up at a church service attended by 300-odd people and slaughtering...
I honestly think it's less about how drawn out the death is. As other's have said, both have their merits. A character crawling away, bleeding his...
This is such a crazy idea (in a good way) that I couldn't help but smile a bit, so kudos for that! That said, I think a helpful way to proceed...
Call me optimistic, but I genuinely think that this book might have been a parody. I mean, a book so poorly written and practically drowning in...
In my story, a character and his wife were married for several years, but she couldn't conceive a child. Then, when she finally did, it died a...
Thanks for the help, you guys, it's been really useful. I think I'm going to play the "fantasy universe" card here and say that this world has...
In the story I'm currently working on, a character is shot in the shoulder blade by a crossbow bolt as she tries to escape (the setting is...
He doesn't find anything, and he realizes there was never anything in the barn in the first place. As other's have said, knowing the genre would...
If your story is set in post-apocalyptic America, then it would seem semi-reasonable to assume that whatever language your character grew up...
I love writing stories to be as dark as I can reasonably make them, usually because I watched or read another story and thought to myself "That...
Well, it may both encourage or discourage. One would be like "Look, a blood trail! Someone's hurt!" and then the other's all like "To hell with...
Well that's where the whole "conspiracy to shut down the device" thing comes in, in that someone/thing is manipulating the characters behind the...
It's hard to give ideas for this sort of thing because there's so many types of unsettling that it's impossible to narrow it down with only that...
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