Hi, I am trying to plot a novel about 1st Year students at a magical university in an Asian/Japanese inspired 21st-century country. I have four...
I'm currently writing the first draft of a Middle-Grade action/adventure novel about superheroes and there's a huge decision I have to make that...
I'm currently revising my first ever complete draft and have started questioning everything. In the end, I think it will be for the better. It...
as a break from all that, I wanted to start maybe doing a short series of stories detailing a woman observing the by-product of an eldritch...
I'm finally done with my first draft and I am now in the beginning of revision. The problem is, the best parts of my story are character arc...
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this post. I decided to be safe and post it here as I was not entirely certain if it should go in...
I am very new to this. I have read a lot about writing both here and elsewhere. Conflict seams to be the thing that drives the story. I can see...
I've mentioned in other posts that I write fanfiction in my downtime as practice for original fiction, and lately an issue in one of my stories...
Hi all! I've just discovered and joined this forum and am learning so much! I have just finished my first draft (yes!) of a romance (possibly...
First off I'd like to say this is my first post so sorry if it's in the wrong area, or poorly explained or whatever. So I have this story I'm...
This concerns the same plot outline I'm dealing with in these threads: https://www.writingforums.org/threads/martial-arts.147495/...
Hey y'all, I'm new to the forums and I've been scratching my head about an idea for a while now but I'm having a tough time getting it to form...
Hey, everyone! In my novel, one of the broader conflicts is my character's insecurity about his being transgender. He tries to present himself as...
Hi folks, first post so here goes. I have been developing two characters and their story world for years. Whenever I write something it's usually...
Hi everyone. This forum looks amazing, so I'm very happy to be a new member! I should preface this by making it clear that I am a COMPLETELY new...
I am not writing a love story. I have never written a love story. But it is very important that my characters fall in love. So that I can kill a...
My socially awkward protagonist has anxiety issues and mental problems. He doesn't talk to anyone except his best friend James. I need him to...
Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but here goes. In my romance-thriller I've brought my protagonists to the point where at last...
I seem to get myself confused a lot with the process of creating well-thought-out internal conflict. What exactly makes good internal conflict,...
This is a whine/moan. Have you found yourself in this situation as a writer? You've invented a character whose role is to create problems for...
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