Hello! I'm new here and I'm so happy I found this forum. I already see it's gonna be very helpful in my future. I have the question. How should I...
First, I just discovered this forum and don't know how I've lived without it all this time. Hi! Second, my story takes places in your standard...
Hi, I'm writing a crime fiction/mystery story and I need help making my characters meet. The protagonist and antagonist are both serial killers...
One of my main characters is too good. He's a good fighter, an excellent strategist, rather good-looking, honorable, kind, and so on. In the kind...
I have a story where the love interest, Evie, is being catfished by her neighbour, Sheila. Clover is the MC and she just moved town, Evie is her...
I am writing a first draft of a novel, and am trying to tell myself to write a few hundred words a day. If the words were just random, sporadic...
Like many, I suspect, I struggle with exposition. It's not something I naturally write or, if truth be known, even know how to write. I write...
I am planning on writing a novel soon that is set in Hong Kong in the 1870s. In my story, a British Schoolboy discovers that creature and deities...
In my WIP there comes a point where the characters decide to do something on their own... (I dont know how and why they get to do this, but they...
Soo....I've got this fight scene with a Chimera, which is a nasty beastie with a lion head, a goat head, and a snake-headed tail. Can anyone...
Hello, I am new to this site. I am planning a novel that follows 5 main characters and just wanted some insight on how to organise the book so it...
Deeming the writing of fiction more challenging than the writing of what is not, I wish to write things that are true, not writings that narrate a...
I'll be honest, developing characters have never been one of my strengths. This story especially is a challenge, because I'm expanding what used...
I love movies so sometimes I try to figure out how I would direct it if I were a movie director (the lighting, the cinematography), or sometimes I...
What's the correct way to punctuate this? It's a thought followed by a beat, but the thought is a question. Why did it bother him so much? he...
In this day an age, printed books are being pushed back into the background, while books on tablets and phones take over the reading world....
I've been working on this story for a few years now and obviously have a sentimental attachment to it *rolls eyes.* Now I've written it pretty...
Does anyone have any experience writing a by-the-book literary deconstruction? Or a recommendation for decent how-to guides? I can find a ton of...
I intend to present a theme of unpredictability in a current project of mine by having the tone shift from being highly light-hearted and comedic...
I'm planning to write a sad/horror story where the main character accidentally drowns her little sister. She then gets "haunted" by her little...
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