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If you are thinking of going the traditional route, then you'll likely need to research getting an agent. Pitching at a conference is one approach, but has its disadvantages (like travel costs). St...
I'll go out on a limb here and argue the second example is objectively better. The problem with the first is that it changes perspectives in the same paragraph. The first sentence is something th...
There is a third, and, to me, preferable alternative. The two alternatives you have given are both attempts at what we might call invisible narration. The reader is not listening to a narrator but ...
I can only speak to personal taste, but in the interest of generalization, I will try to justify my personal taste in this. I think serials should consist of stand alone novels that can be read ind...
Discussions of the passive voice often cause more confusion than they avoid. It is always easier to see your way clear in these cases if you think in terms of naming or hiding the agent. In other w...
If they won't be mentioned again, it's not worth giving them a name - so your first example would be somewhat wasteful. The reader doesn't need to know that the redhead with an aggressive attitude ...
No-one can answer that for you but you, do you find that the end result justifies the practice? I can't write in fragments because they either A. don't fit when I come to stitch the whole together,...
This is a pretty broad question and therefore this is a pretty broad answer. It all comes down to what is called the "telling detail". The word "telling" emphasises two things here. First it means ...
Any decent text editor will have a function to unwrap lines. For example, you can download Notepad++ and install the TextFX plugin. Then highlight the text and choose TextFX > TextFX Edit > U...
I get that way myself sometimes. I think we all do. I once used a building throughout the whole book, only to discover that my character lived on the tenth floor and most of the tale took place on ...
I'd say who cares beyond the University students and staff. Most fictions fudge it somehow. I would say it matters if and only if the building in question is instantly recognizable to a general a...
I highly recommend The Copyright Handbook by NOLO Press. It is very readable, and structured so that you can get either a quick overview or a more thorough understanding, depending on your needs.
Publishers will accept anything that they think people will buy. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
I'd replace the existing university myself it gives you a solid location but you can set your own rules.
To add to Mikailo's excellent answer, another character you should definitely look at is Sora from No Game No Life: he has both the chessmaster intellect and the foolish, goofy personality. In part...
Characters are usually memorable due to personality traits. If we think back to all of our favorite characters as we grew up, you may even notice a pattern of characters you liked in comparison wi...
Before jumping to a conclusion about your work, certain things which are not mentioned here need to be considered. Sometimes the writing process can take you out of or beyond what you think of as y...
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. So sayeth the Bard, and he should know. No story is set in a real place. It is set on a stage created by the author, a stage desi...
I'm not entirely sure for your question whether you are trying to avoid the verb or avoid the entire clause. If you insert the action clause in the sentence, the ing verb is the right way to do it ...
I think a good strategy is to pick (even randomly) a story you want to write and start sinking some cost into it. In other words before putting anything down, do a number of days of research on the...
To add to the excellent answers already given, here's a simple way of thinking about it: As long as the reader knows just as much about what's going on as the point of view character does, it isn'...
I am going to paste the first paragraph of "A Farewell To Arms". I'd like you to count how many times he used the word "and". In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village t...
As with the popularity of most websites your overall chance of succes boils down to 3 factors: Content, usability and network. Content Quite simply put, you need to produce content people not only...
"Don't confuse the reader" is one of the rules that exist to be broken. As usually, "when to break the rule? When you know what you're doing." In this case, straighten it out immediately after he ...
oh mercy, "the" is invisible. Stop fretting so much. Write your story. Write it with repeated words, with TK placeholders everywhere, wif badly grammar, with too much emphasis, with lots of... elli...
