As a reader, you can always tell if the Author his/herself is a reader and draws inspiration from fiction, or isn't a reader and models their work...
My creative writing professor says that the only dialogue tags you need are "he said, he asked, or he yelled/whispered in some cases." but using...
No. Popularity is great, oversaturation is bad.
In my eyes, Star Wars will always be a fantasy epic with spaceships. Now a potential problem I do see would be Hollywood pumping out perpetual...
Now the more I think about the alternate history route, the more I like it. It fits in with a lot of aspects I wanted to throw in the story that I...
In my story, FTL travel is though gates that connect solar systems, but communication is through narrow beams or radio-waves limited by the speed...
You may have a point, but society isn't black and white(not a race pun). Everything is subjective and hard to follow no matter how many words you...
It really depends on what genre I'm writing. If it's fantasy I'll either look up a couple name generators, come up with something crazy, or...
Why use labels in the first place? I honestly don't see the need for them. Some people like guys, some people like girls, some people like both....
Haven't seen the show but one of my friends love to draw comparisons with him. If anything, I'd say he's too similar to Conan Doyle's Sherlock...
My story is a hard-scifi so I've managed to create a few character traits for my protagonist that fit well with the genre and make for great plot...
My rule of thumb is "if the story isn't romance, don't let it focus on romance." This should apply with any character regardless of sexual...
I'm not too sure if I want to go the alternate history route. It's more of a design trend and culture in the time period I'm writing. Though...
The reason why I want to do this was more of a stylistic thing. I want to give my setting more of an Identity and to help distinguish it from...
In most modern SF we either see fancy hologram displays or something resembling a typical flat screen display that is seen in households today. I...
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