Hello guys, I have been writing a crime/thriller for the past year and am hoping to publish it in the near future. However, I've started to plan...
Yes Lazy it can work well if foreshadowed and if the reader can think that something is not quite right about this "man", but I think it could...
The great thing about this website is that it makes for a great place to debate. It's not about everybody agreeing or disagreeing, but more for...
Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin. A very hard hitting, well written, prize winning novel. And it's not amateur-ish in the slightest I...
I think it sounds like a really interesting idea. Did you take the idea of Knights and Kings from chess pieces? If so, it would be worth...
I agree with Cogito, you do have to make decisions yourself and stick with an idea through to the end, otherwise you get answers like the ones...
My advice is to finish one novel, even if you have hundreds of other ideas running through your head. You should write down any other ideas you...
I think reading should be a pastime, and I agree with a lot of people posting on this thread when they say you should seperate your writing from...
I see the point you are making, and there is a huge difference between taking ideas and copying and pasting, but you have to ask how far something...
There is a difference between copying and taking inspiration. You should never think you have to come up with something completely different or...
I think it's best not to try to force descriptions out unless they are necessary. The reader doesn't need to know everything about a character,...
I had a similar experience where I started to write in a particular formatand decided it wasn't working. I changed the format half way through,...
I think authors who write one particular genre do so because that is what their audience expects, and it will increase their sales. Nobody can...
"Not a lot of people in their family liked them because who would want to have differently-gendered twins as children?" - Kimi-Chan's original...
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