Hi everyone. I'm writing a coming-of-age nautical fiction narrative, and in the story the lead character develops a crush on one of the primary...
(I'm new here so sorry if the formatting is wrong or if this isn't the right place to post this) So I've been mulling over this one story thread...
Putting this in the general writing / novel section because I feel like possible answers can come outside the box (and way outside plot...
Okay, so here’s my problem. One of the most difficult things I find as a writer is building up tension and then diffusing it. For example, a...
I was jut wondering: it's understood that in the first person POV the narrator will end up surviving whatever he is going through since he is...
I'm writing a cozy mystery similar to Agatha Christie's Manor house cases with a small circle of suspects. Most of the books I've read on the...
One of my male characters kills their lover/son's mother to save his son. The mother tried to kill their son. I wanted to make this a gray area in...
In my outline for the story of the book series I'm planning, I have the third book end with a confrontation between the villain and one of the...
Okayyy, so I know I ask a lot about this subject, but I have this m/m romance subplot where one character is a serious psychopath, with a history...
So, in my main project, a book I'm writing, Luke had a crush on Oscar before he met him. A bit after they met they started dating. And by around...
I put "Straight" in quotations because the characters would say, and believe, that they are straight, it would take a suggestive moment or...
Hey, everyone. I'm working on my first novel, an urban fantasy/mystery set in Seattle. I've got the basics pretty much worked out. I know who...
How do you add menace, tension and malevolent energy to a scene? I'm writing a scene were a little girl is playing with a doll and stops...
I've noticed that a lot of recent "scary" movies from Hollywood, and similarly, recent "scary" books contain nothing more than detailed depictions...
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