Greetings! I am writing a story set in Nazareth in the Galilean hills, most likely 1 AD in AD 4–6. I am going to make the characters speak...
English is not my first language. Nonetheless, I've been consuming written media forms in English ever since I was sitting in primary school; big...
Hey, I am writing a story in past tense. But I´m not sure whether I should write a character´s thoughts about the events in past tense also or in...
I'm in the process of writing a story involving vampires and other sorts of cannibalistic humanoids, however, I need to find a term to describe...
I recently saw an episode of The Big Bang Theory, and they're a few lines of dialogue I don't understand. The lines are: Leonard: You don’t even...
After going back and starting to reread my WIP I found that I've been using the word "Just" entirely too much. I used my find & replace function...
Hello, everyone! In my story, there is a character who is a very high-ranked monk in a monastery. He is being held in a small, cell-like, room. I...
A: She only loves you for your money, obviously. If you told her you sold your car and quit your job, she'd be gone in a minute. B (being...
Ok, so pig-like is porcine, cow-like is bovine, bear-like is ursine. But, what's goat-like? I want to describe a "goat-like" feature.
My character is alone talking to herself, saying the things she wished she had said but didn't have the courage to. I do it all the time myself,...
My character is talking to herself and I need a word for the act of going over stuff out loud to unburden oneself. It's not quite "get it off your...
I have the sentence: "...these are just some of the threatening headlines we are facing on a weekly basis..." But I know it sounds a lot better...
So I've been reading editors who say (rightfully so) to avoid cliches and tired phrases. Problem is, I can't seem to convey the following in fresh...
Folks I'm looking for a phrase or idiom that conveys the above. My brain went to 'waxing the lyrical' which isn't the same thing. What I'm trying...
Separate names with a comma.
