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In this case the Computers are the characters (the actors on screen). Narrator Not Necessarily Needed There is no need of a narrator. In this case I imagined the movie camera (the shot) moving ...
It is somewhat difficult to answer your question in its current form, but I shall give it a try. The motion picture medium leaves you with three ways of conveying information to the spectators: sh...
I'd say that whether you need a voiceover reading out the messages or not depends on how long the conversation goes on for. In the example you gave - Sherlock - the text conversations rarely last...
I've just thought . . . In the opening of "Millennial" I attempted animate inanimate objects. Whilst it may not specifically answer your question it may give you ideas on how to set up a suitable e...
The end of the main story. This is where all of the other authors put theirs, even if they have an epilogue.
Putting "The End" at the end is a trope that played out in early cinema and, for no reason, I can decern, children's stories (usually as a variant of "they lived happily ever after, the end.") The...
In olden days writers would type "-30-" or perhaps "###" as a centered line following the last line of the manuscript. This would be intended to show that there is no more to someone reading the ma...
You can (and probably should) tell your characters' background stories, but you should also ask yourself a question - "would it make my book better?" There are a few rules that I think are importa...
Write to get it all on paper/screen, and don't worry about going back to fix things just yet. As better ideas/words come to mind, add a note in your draft to investigate the ideas when you're ready...
I'm going to go against the grain. I'm going to give you some advice that you probably won't want to hear. You say you've only been writing for six months and your mention of 'chapter' indicates y...
How about introducing the 1st person narrations as excerpts from the narrator's diary? You could write something like "xxxxx's diary. 6/8/2017: ..." and then write the chapter in 3rd person narration
If it's really short — no more than a few paragraphs — set it off with italics. It should quickly become apparent from context who the first-person-italics character is. If it's pages and pages, ...
I don't know the eastern tradition well enough to comment on whether or not it has stories without conflict. But of course, this depends on what you mean by story. But then the question is not abou...
If you try to please everyone, you please no-one. Finnegan's Wake (Joyce) has gained and retained a reputation as a great classic of the English language, despite working hard at every turn to con...
You have adopted a complicated, "elite" format, with a surprising "twist" ending to the scene. I'm not sure that you were successful, but you made your point. You had two interlocking themes, the ...
To answer your stated question, one can protect one's work by "registering" it with Writers Guild of America for $20 online. But there is a fundamental reason why agents won't steal your work: Bec...
I hear this worry from many beginning writers. Often the question includes something along the lines of "What legal steps can I take to protect my work from being stolen?". Here's my capsule advic...
I want to be harsh or burst your bubble but your worries don't conform with reality. Agencies receive thousands of manuscripts each week - most of which they don't actually read. Acceptable storie...
Stories need conflict - that's a rule. Rules are there to be broken - that's another. And there's the unbreakable one, about when the rules can be broken: when you know what you're doing. Story ...
Dialect writing was quite popular among authors in the 19th and early 20th century. Both Twain and Kipling indulged in it extensively. In an age where few had the opportunity to travel and there we...
It depends on your market and the quality of your readership. There is a battle between two major forms of the English Language - British English and American English. US culture is very internal -...
Do they really still do that? The origins are not hard to guess at. It has been a fundamental social presumption for centuries that the essential role of men is to protect women and children. On si...
Makes an emotional and social impact Making a point of how many women and/or children perished or were harmed in a given event makes a larger emotional and social impact. It turns the causative en...
My opinion is that once you've published, even on Kindle, it's done. Other than typos or a gross mistake like using the wrong character name by accident, you don't make changes. Your story is you...
Just to add a little to what Lauren has said, make sure you understand the difference between copyright and plagiarism. Copyright is the legal right to make a copy of the whole or parts of a work....
