Before I start this post, I what everyone to know that I will be dealing with a character who is suicidal, selfharming, and abusing alcohol. This...
Hello everyone! I just registered several seconds ago because I've been having a problem with a novelette I'm working on. My story is...
I personally do not drink coffee. I drink tea. It is lighter on the palate.
How much do you describe your characters? Most of mine are fairly short descriptions: -A trim woman with her blonde hair cut short emerged from...
I'd say for me it's an exact balance between detail, dialogue, and inner thoughts. What about everyone else here? Sometimes I read other books...
Hi all, I'm a new writer. Though I have always written as a hobby, I'm now trying to make sure my writing is readable and perhaps even enjoyable....
Sorry for another thread in such a short time, my brain is just rolling tonight. Okay, so BACKGROUND: I work in an industry where everyone...
I hope this is the right forum to post this in (couldn't tell if it should be in here, or plot development). Anyways, I've been working on a book...
I have a story which ends with the main characters escaping from somewhere in a rather under dramatic fashion before skipping ahead a few months...
I suppose I should start with what my book is trying to accomplish, or rather, what it isn't. It's not a romance. It doesn't pretend to be, it...
Quick question - In an enclosed space without any incoming air, say, fifty feet square, how long would a fire be able to burn before it consumed...
My novel was set in a city I know well and lived in for many years, but the city was just too big for the story. I wanted a smaller urban setting....
How much physical description should you give a character in terms of their general appearance (e.g. clothing, hair length, etc)?
You're probably aware of the advice that says you need to read a lot as part of the "tools" to write fiction well. One of the habits I've...
Hey everyone! I've been trying to write a fantasy novel for the last 6 months and I only have about a chapter and a half so far. This is harder...
I'm writing a story set about 50 years from now. It's not really a sci-fi story with wild imaginings of the future. It's just some sort of...
In my fantasy book, chapter 1 is short and starts with a bang, so in chapter 2 I slow down and establish more of a normal day so readers can get a...
After reading a lot of the newer books, and the introductory parts of books on Amazon, I'm worried. Not so much that my story is in a real life...
Something I've wondered about is how much research should you do before writing about a certain topic or era. Should you only write about things...
I wrote my first novel "off the cuff", one chapter after the next with no real idea of how the story would play out until I had finished it. It...
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