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Q&A How can I catch more errors when I proofread?

10 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by rsneha‭

Question editing technique proofreading
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Q&A block-quotation narrative with dialogue

0 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Canina‭

Question technique style dialogue format
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Q&A How to make the reader think that the *character's* logic is flawed instead of the author's?

9 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

Question fiction technique showing-telling characters readers
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Q&A What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?

5 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by celtschk‭

Question technique style creative-writing writing
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Q&A Time measures in fantasy worlds

5 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Which parts of a character's plan should be revealed beforehand?

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by Razetime‭

Question technique creative-writing narrative
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Q&A At what point does a POV character noting their surroundings go from showing/telling to an infodump?

7 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A How can I make a character sound condescending?

2 answers  ·  last activity 11 months ago by Canina‭

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

4 answers  ·  last activity 11 months ago by Tau‭

Question technique creative-writing dialogue
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Q&A How do I deliver a historical plot reveal?

2 answers  ·  last activity 12 months ago by Mark Baker‭

Question technique narrative climax
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Q&A What information about a fictional world is unnecessary?

5 answers  ·  last activity 12 months ago by Mark Baker‭

Question technique description script
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Q&A Rapid change in character

7 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Mark Baker‭

Question fiction technique character-development
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Q&A How to hint at an antagonist's identity?

3 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Mark Baker‭

Question fiction technique characters creative-writing
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Q&A Averting Always Chaotic Evil

5 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Mark Baker‭

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

4 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Mark Baker‭

Question technique world-building fantasy creative-writing narrative
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Q&A Detail vs. filler

7 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by DPT‭

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

2 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Mark Baker‭

Question technique structure pov
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Q&A What's the difference between time-tested and formulaic?

4 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by sesquipedalias‭

Question fiction technique archetypes
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Q&A How do we create our own symbolisms?

3 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Mark Baker‭

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

6 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Amadeus‭

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

2 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Secespitus‭

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Q&A Dangers of being sympathetic to the killer

4 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Amadeus‭

Question fiction technique flash-fiction conflict
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Q&A How can I make a character sound uneducated?

2 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Evil Sparrow‭

Question technique creative-writing dialogue
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Q&A How does someone write a moving Declaration of Independence?

2 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by DPT‭

Question brainstorming technique style attention
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Q&A How to deal appropriately with an inappropriate sexual relationship

5 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Amadeus‭

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

2 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Mark Baker‭

Question technique creative-writing
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Q&A Non-sense question about plot structures

3 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Mark Baker‭

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

5 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Kevin‭

Question publishing editing technique process first-draft
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Q&A Dumping an entire world for dramatic effect?

6 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by Mark Baker‭

Question plot technique creative-writing
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Q&A Writing slurred speech

6 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by aparente001‭

Question technique language dialogue
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Q&A How to write a nice frame challenge?

3 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question fiction technique style non-fiction tone
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Q&A Ambiguous sentences: How to tell when they need fixing?

3 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question technique conventions ambiguity
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Q&A Averting Real Women Don’t Wear Dresses

7 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question technique characters creative-writing gender tropes
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Q&A I have a dialogue that I can't write directly. What would be a good alternative?

3 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

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Q&A Tiptoe or tiphoof? Adjusting words to better fit fantasy races

6 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question technique word-choice
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Q&A Changing the meaning of well-established symbols

3 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question technique process creative-writing symbolism
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Q&A Will it push away a reader if I start my book with the frame story?

2 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question novel plot technique structure
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Q&A How can you write when you're upset?

4 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question technique creative-writing psychology-of-writing emotions
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Q&A How to not confuse readers with simultaneous events?

2 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question technique scene pov timelines
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Q&A Help! My Character is too much for her story!

3 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question technique characters
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Q&A How to make a repeating plot "slice" not annoying

6 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

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Q&A What is the balance between 'stating a problem clearly' and Hemingway's literary iceberg?

3 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

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

4 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

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

1 answer  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

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Q&A Classical Style vs. Modern Innovation

2 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question technique style structure
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Q&A What Can Ensure Re-Readability?

4 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question fiction technique readers
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Q&A Creating clues for a mystery subplot

1 answer  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

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Q&A Suffixing words with -ness, -ish, -like, and others

1 answer  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

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

3 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question plot planning technique process subtext
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Q&A Is it bad not to explain things?

2 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

Question fiction technique world-building creative-writing
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