Search
Lots of people start writing novels in their teens. Most of them are not very good at first. That is to be expected. A novel is one of the most complex forms of art that can be created by a single ...
The cover is important, the blurb is important, the reviews are important, the story structure is important. The first page is important. One of the best exercises I ever did was to bring home tw...
Is there a way to add this? Yes. It's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's not impossible. More relevant: Is it worth it? The answer to that is probably no. The software this site is ...
A story is about main characters trying to overcome a conflict. The ending is happy if the characters succeed. The ending is sad if the characters fail. The ending is mixed if the characters overco...
This has been completed now. See https://writing.codidact.com/questions/39520 for more information
Relevant code is here, for those so minded. Reputation will be transferred to the correct user when content is claimed - it works technically by deleting the user currently assigned to each post, ...
I recommend The Corpus of Contemporary American English (and for BrE its sister the British National Corpus). It's a very powerful tool, supporting wildcards, part of speech tagging, grouping by le...
Google's Ngram Viewer can be used to show the relative popularity of a word or phrase in its various collections over time, and it does have American and British English corpora. E.g. 'mum' comes ...
There are reasons to repeat yourself, but they differ to what you imply. Academic readers are usually skimming through hundreds of papers to find the results relevant to their current work, so ...
Should be fixed - I've changed the registered domain on Stack Apps to the current writing.codidact.com.
Fantasy isn't defined only by magic. I was a fan of fantasy literature for many years before coming across anyone trying to define "fantasy" as "stuff involving magic", which I've never really und...
So this is an artifact of me not testing across multiple browsers. In Chrome, the <summary> element (which the history type, username, and timestamp are contained in) automatically inserts an...
Added to the TODO list for 2020.
So here's the thing: how Meta here works is different to how it works on SE. Meta sites on SE are technically their own instances of the Q&A software, another site if you will, that just happen...
Known bug (kind of). I happened to be looking at the error logs as you did this, and I saw it pop up. There's some sort of bug in the process of sending mail - I have the server configured to send ...
The only way to resolve it is to write. I'm a discovery writer too. I get excitement from just "imagining" how things could go, how the world might be, and how the character should react. Did you ...
Totally not developing on production.
Your problem could be summarized as follows: If your protagonist's life is really totally perfect in any way, he has no reason to change anything. End of story. So if you want to have a story, ...
I think among the team, there are very talented frontend devs, who can finish this within few hours. Why thank you. I do appreciate the vote of confidence... but that said, I'm the only develope...
A character is a bundle of desires. (One could debate whether that is an adequate description of a human being, but characters are not complete human beings, they are artefacts of story.) When you ...
I'd love if world-building included was fair game for possible questions, on this site, both to draw from the obvious expertise from contributors, to run with the idea of being 'not SE,', and also ...
Without looking at the other answers, I'd say it depends on audience. Some people are happy with formulaic. Write what they want, regardless of it being a formula, and they are happy to buy it and ...
This is a presumption, but my guess is that you have lost interest because there is no drama in your outline. The peril of outlining is that it causes you to focus on events. Events are not dramati...
For me, time-tested and formulaic are equivalent; and equate to a lack of surprises, at least for a jaded consumer of fiction. I am a jaded consumer of Television entertainment. I know the formul...
Well, there is usually not a lot of inner dialogue in the middle of a sword fight. The slow part of the brain that mulls over stuff switches off and the fast part of the brain the tries to not get ...
