What Anonym said is great and I agree. With that said since the characters are yours, you should know them pretty well. Use what you know about...
Jumping from project to project is fine as long as you don't completely forget about the others. Instead of worrying about finishing something...
I (obviously) don't know your story so here's a list I think you should keep in mind when choosing to include flashbacks: If this is in a...
My take on "literary" fiction: It isn't really a genre in the same way that fantasy is; people always argue that sci-fi and fantasy can not be...
Short stories can be a very wide variety of lengths, so these are just ideas on how to shorten a "story". Most the time the general plot...
3-act only means beginning-middle-end. You can have as many plot turns or ups and downs as you'd like. There are a bunch of those "how to write...
The problem with organizing from a notebook is that you cannot just insert things here and there, and the biggest one: you cannot edit very well...
You could try adding some foreshadowing of events to come, a compelling relationship [or potential relationship], a bit of mystery, open with a...
Then don't explain it. I don't think a reader will scratch their head and get confused that is took a month to identify a body. The reader...
You will probably get a few responses that tell you that you need to come up with your conflicts on your own because well... that is the bulk of...
I am not an officer, nor do I work in law enforcement in any form, but my guess is that it depends. Not a good answer but I think for writing you...
Some people like to outline, others like to just right whatever comes. I personally prefer outlining because it is more time efficient and I don't...
Something else to keep in mind is the local "writing culture". I don't have a degree in Writing/English (I've got a BS in Sociology), so I don't...
I think it depends on how old they are. 30 and 36 isn't a big deal. 15 and 21 is probably a little creepy. If it "kind of happened"...
Are there any unfinished subplots that could be explored to give them a new adventure?
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