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At what point does a POV character noting their surroundings go from showing/telling to an infodump?

9 answers  ·  last activity about 22 hours ago by aCVn

technique creative-writing infodump
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How can I make a character sound condescending?

2 answers  ·  last activity 2 months ago by aCVn

technique word-choice dialogue
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In a dialogue, how can I hint that the characters aren't telling the whole truth?

4 answers  ·  last activity 2 months ago by Tau

technique creative-writing dialogue
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How do I deliver a historical plot reveal?

2 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Mark Baker

technique narrative climax
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What information about a fictional world is unnecessary?

7 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Mark Baker

technique description script
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Rapid change in character

8 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Mark Baker

fiction technique character-development
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How to hint at an antagonist's identity?

5 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Mark Baker

fiction technique characters creative-writing
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Averting Always Chaotic Evil

7 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Mark Baker

fiction technique creative-writing antagonist tropes
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The concept of "Exotic Culture" and the necessity of a new world

4 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Mark Baker

technique world-building fantasy creative-writing narrative
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Detail vs. filler

8 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by DPT

novel fiction technique description script prose
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Does a point of view need to be introduced when or right after the character is introduced?

2 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Mark Baker

technique structure pov
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What's the difference between time-tested and formulaic?

4 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by sesquipedalias

fiction technique archetypes
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How do we create our own symbolisms?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Mark Baker

technique creative-writing symbolism
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How to "Start as close to the end as possible", and why to do so?

6 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Amadeus

technique creative-writing
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How do big creative writing projects with multiple people work, preferably in the videogame industry?

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Secespitus

technique collaboration videogame
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Dangers of being sympathetic to the killer

6 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Amadeus

fiction technique flash-fiction conflict
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How can I make a character sound uneducated?

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Evil Sparrow

technique creative-writing dialogue
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How does someone write a moving Declaration of Independence?

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by DPT

brainstorming technique style attention
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How to deal appropriately with an inappropriate sexual relationship

5 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Amadeus

technique characters sex
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How can a writer point out the merits of his or her own work?

4 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Mark Baker

technique creative-writing
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Non-sense question about plot structures

3 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Mark Baker

plot technique style creative-writing structure
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How can I make my 'first draft' good enough to be published?

9 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Kevin

publishing editing technique process first-draft
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Dumping an entire world for dramatic effect?

9 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Mark Baker

plot technique creative-writing
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Writing slurred speech

7 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by aparente001

technique language dialogue
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How to write a nice frame challenge?

5 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction technique style non-fiction tone
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Averting Real Women Don’t Wear Dresses

13 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique characters creative-writing gender tropes
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Ambiguous sentences: How to tell when they need fixing?

4 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique conventions ambiguity
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Tiptoe or tiphoof? Adjusting words to better fit fantasy races

12 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique word-choice
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Changing the meaning of well-established symbols

6 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique process creative-writing symbolism
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I have a dialogue that I can't write directly. What would be a good alternative?

5 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique dialogue
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What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?

14 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique style creative-writing
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How can you write when you're upset?

13 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique creative-writing psychology-of-writing emotions
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Will it push away a reader if I start my book with the frame story?

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

novel plot technique structure
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How to not confuse readers with simultaneous events?

5 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique scene pov timelines
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How to make a repeating plot "slice" not annoying

10 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique creative-writing
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Help! My Character is too much for her story!

7 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique characters
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What is the balance between 'stating a problem clearly' and Hemingway's literary iceberg?

8 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction technique showing-telling feedback show
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When do I successfully kill off an important secondary main character... in a series of five books?

8 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

plot planning technique character-development pacing
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Do you need to have an introduction at the beginning of every book in a series?

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction technique creative-writing
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Classical Style vs. Modern Innovation

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique style structure
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What Can Ensure Re-Readability?

8 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction technique readers
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Creating clues for a mystery subplot

1 answer  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique mystery
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Suffixing words with -ness, -ish, -like, and others

1 answer  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique creative-writing word-choice clarity
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Where in the writing process do you work in subtext?

5 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

plot planning technique process subtext
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Is it bad not to explain things?

7 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction technique world-building creative-writing
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What kinds of skill does writing require?

4 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction technique book creative-writing
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Why are writers so hung up on "show versus tell"?

11 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique showing-telling creative-writing show
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How can I write a character whom I have no knowledge of?

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique characters
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I'm using the same formula for stakes over and over - is this a problem?

4 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

technique stakes
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How to split up a book into a series?

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction wordcount technique series cliches
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