Hi! I've just joined here and I hope I'm posting this in the right place. I am working on a short story concept that I've tried coming at from a...
There's a sudden death round this month! Who should win the shiny medal? 1. Read the entries here:...
My novel is a horror/sci-fi. A supporting character is a pakistani muslim who lives with his fiance and her family (who are a different culture...
I'm not religious, I don't believe in the paranormal or that we can contact the dead, but something in me finds it very hard to accept that when...
Working on one of my stories and having some trouble sticking the landing here at the end. Basically this villain has tortured the MC both...
It seems like a lot of people here talk about killing off characters. I will admit, I kill characters. I don't know what it is, sometimes I just...
So, I had a story I had asked for help on previously, but I have since abandoned the project due to situations not permitting me to write. I lost...
WARNING: By its nature, this thread will likely be very spoiler-heavy. Proceed at own risk. (maybe spoiler tags would be a good idea?) Title says...
At the beginning of my novel, one of my characters dies. She is in her home when she dies of what initially appears to be complications from her...
So I'm in the market for a terminal illness, not for me but for my character. Normally I'd try to find something myself but today I thought I'd...
Generally speaking, you want to keep it a secret if a character dies or not, to the reader, because otherwise, it would take away the emotional...
While writing my book I needed to know what coroners put under their noses when they do an autopsy to make the horrible reek tolerable. You might...
Hello! I've had major writers' block for soooo long. I've just recently /finally/ figured out a plot line worth digging into and writing, but I...
To those with horsey knowledge, I have a character who has to kill a horse who has been hamstrung in a battle, there are no firearms in my fantasy...
The protagonist and his brother are Indians. The brother is older than the protagonist by 6 years. He is a model student and a devoted son. But...
Hello. My WIP needs an illness that was undetected until it escalated to point of no return. Patient needs to be lucid but tired. Was hospitalized...
(This could just as easily go under character development, so please move it if you see fit.) I have an idea bouncing around for (what I think is)...
If you learned you had a terminal illness, or if you contracted some progressively-debilitating disease, would you do your best to finish your...
Hello everyone! This is research for my new story. Due to certain circumstances the main character only has a short amount of time left to live....
hello everyone! I've recently had a story idea and I was wondering what you all thought of it. I've decided to create a society in which...
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