I really like both of these, thanks! Adding Uncle really does add the emotion I want, not what I was originally aiming for, but I like it!
There's a long quote from Neil Gaiman I love about "Making good art". He finished it by saying "Make it on the bad days, make it on the good...
Anything you write is creative and new. No one knows if what they're writing will sell, which is why so many published authors say "Only write if...
Agreed. Give the essential details, then let the characters and plot include the rest. Leaving some details out isn't a bad thing either, if you...
I'm really struggling to create a nickname for my antagonist. He's a rebel leader, who portrays and advertises himself as a man of the people, for...
I seriously struggle with names. More so than anything else. It slows my writing process and I regularly go back and change names because their...
I only switch POV characters when the plot requires it. I personally have a rule to never change POV characters to explain a characters motives or...
I have two types of characters, created and discovered. When I create a character, it has a planned impact on the plot. I generally get the...
Lately I've been writing fantasy. When I first approached it, I wrote small bios for each character and main plot points, then immediately started...
Intrigue! It's something so much fantasy lacks! Too many fantasy writers creature beautiful, amazing worlds and creatures, then ruin it all by...
Tropes are a good thing, especially in a fantasy genre. Within fantasy, you spend an awful lot of time describing your world. Popular tropes like...
I only started writing a year ago, my life felt as though it was stuck in a rut; I wasn't happy with my job, I was outgrowing my old hobbies, but...
I've been writing in third person, when I started writing I tried first but it didn't work for the stories I like to tell. When I write in first...
I think that understanding what little I do of the character, he would have to to desert due to personal reasons due to fear of failure or death...
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