This is my first post on here, though I've been reading and commenting on a few today. I hope someone can give me some advice. As the title says,...
I guess this thread's more about hearing what everyone thinks, rather than looking for advice. I was thinking about how I wanted to develop a...
This is for realistic fiction. Neither of them have any friends, both male, fourteen or fifteen. One of them perceives the world in a child-like...
I read a guide on self-editing your manuscript, and one of the recommendations is to consider providing your side characters with their storyline...
Ok, here's the deal. My wife is an avid reader, 95% murder mystery. It is her main and almost only hobby. when she isn't doing something she has...
Hi all. I'm really hoping this is the right forum for this, but if it's not, please point me to the right one and I will go there instead! Thanks....
I've found that all three of my main characters have something in common: they all had conflicts with their parents. Character 1's conflict...
I am in a rut. I want my MC to have a job, which means co-workers. I thought of having him (and another character, too) work at a place either...
This will be my first story written in a graphic novel style that I'm working really hard on. I planned this for a long time. There will be a few...
I'm about ready to start writing the revised draft of my story (though, to be honest, it's quite different from the first draft to the point that...
What book or books have you read that really get's you inside the mind of the character? Books that show you the inner workings of their thought...
This is something of an issue for me, as I would like to write something longer than a few pages or just a self-contained side-story. I've seen...
I'm working on a historical fiction novel based on a real family's journey as captives marching hundreds of miles midwinter up to Canada. I only...
What are some alien tropes you cant stand? What are some that you like? I feel like its all been done before, haha! what are some really wacky...
I'm writing a story in third person about two kids, but I don't know whether it's necessary for the audience to know their exact age. They're...
Hello all, I am writing a story in which my main character has had an imaginary "friend" since she was a girl that has gradually got meaner to...
Okay so I have a character named Zane, and he has always had the ability to be empathic. Like if he walks into a room with several peolle he can...
I'm 200+ pages into my first novel out of (hopefully) a trilogy or quartet and I plan for my first to be about 350-400 pages. My issue is, I've...
Got bored, and I found myself thinking of all the ways my characters are totally screwed or how their past is just messed up. And since we, as the...
This is an article about how female MCs were first introduced. It's movies but I think there's something to consider for novels too....
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