It can be a prologue, because that has nothing to do with chronology, regardless of taste in narrative. A prologue should be separate from...
I wrote a response but deleted. In short, I often have encountered this in my own works from the past and have second guessed it, but I think it...
I’m real happy with the way this is coming. ~26k words, most of which are solid consistently for a change. I can see the end and how to get there....
I'm writing a book that would have a lot to gain from Gilded Age New York, Victorian England, and so forth... obviously, the steampunk setting...
It's because you skip past the description when you read that you don't know how to do it. Read, and don't do that. Try to enjoy the words for...
I've been writing almost daily for almost all of the past ten years. Most of the writing is anecdotal short stories that I would not publish in...
That's ultimately what this thread is about. Perhaps knowing when to wield it feels intuitive, but it can be broken down into a system. When do...
Do most modern demographics of readers prefer novels that present a story in a straight forward manner, with sentences that don't stretch the...
Should it: a) Be done in great detail, to give beautiful imagery of everything from how characters look to the exact placement of every object...
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