It could be important that he's shown eating an apple and that it's not his first. (The apple was a simple example just off the top of my head.)
I don't think it's a bad thing, but I'd seen it pointed out during critiques as something not to do. I was trying to figure out the difference...
Ok, that sentence doesn't make sense. (I was tired when I wrote it.) What I had heard was that you shouldn't use words like "another", "more",...
I've heard that the first sentence of a scene shouldn't use words that convey something is not the first. And that it would confuse the reader....
I usually picture a scene and then build a plot around that. Sometimes the original scene ends up changing or being cut.
You could also have her buy things she always admired and thought of as being classy, only to find out her family turns their noses up as such...
I flaw could be as simple as making a mistake. Or maybe being a little selfish.
Maybe if you "foreshadow" the storm beforehand, it wouldn't seem out of nowhere. For example, you could have someone mention strong storms that...
A shy, introvert doesn't mean passive. They just need a goal and a plan. For example, one could write a story about a character trying to leave a...
Can a POV character make assumptions about what another character is feeling? For example, could you have character Jim think that character Sally...
I don't feel like a writer, yet. Maybe when I get this book done.
I kill off a character in the first chapter which is the catalyst for the book. You don't even see him - you just hear about the accident. In not...
At the opposite end of nothing bad happening, is when too much bad happens. The terrible things should advance the plot. If the story is just...
Separate names with a comma.