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It kind of sounds like you have a group of characters that you want to remove their plot armor. If the reader realizes that anyone can die, then they will be unsure who could be next, as any of the...
There are those that claim that bestsellers cannot be made. They advise you to write the story that feels most relevant to yourself, because otherwise your writing will feel void and empty. Then t...
Agree completely with MissMonicaE. I would say so in a comment, but I have no reputation and so forth as this is my first post on a StackExchange site. In fact, I created an account specifically t...
I prefer to think of an either "almighty character" or a kind of Carnival Barker when writing in the Third Person...he can do anything he wants...and indeed he should passing through time and space...
While feeling rather bad for @Ctouw, who admitted to struggle with managing out-of-order writing, I have to side with both @LaurenIpsum and @what. Yes, you have to try it for yourself, and yes it ...
The simplest way is to kill your main character in the first page. You can then play with time in order to make him your main character and then have people discover only at the end that the story ...
(This construction is a pain in the ass to punctuate, so this is a good question to ask.) When your narration is a full sentence, it must be punctuated like a full sentence. With M-dashes: “Sh...
I don't have a good example for this either, but my suggestion is that requirements do not go into a Runbook/Operations manual, but that the use cases would make a lot of sense, as you would be tyi...
Very simple: Write the story up to the point where someone is supposed to die. Then roll a die, and kill off the person whose number comes up. You don't literally have to do that, but if you want ...
I think the main difference between yesteryear classics and today's "literature," as you define it distinct from "pulp," is the attention span of the reader. There are exponentially more inputs c...
I do not see much difference in style between Goethe, Proust, or Hawthorne on the one hand, and whichever book I pick up in the bookstore today. They refer to a different world and use some differe...
Don't make it a person. The best example is The Raven who only says "Nevermore." This is very clearly a very intelligent being and yet his lexicon is limited to not only one word but a "kind of a ...
I don't know a single person who uses "of African descent" in everyday speech and the people I spend time with are pretty accepting, liberal-Democrat New Jersey sorts of people. The black people I ...
According to this page on word.tips.net, this is not possible in Word. There is instead a suggestion to hide the middle references and add a dash: One solution is to select the intermediate r...
All I can offer you is an example of what I've seen done. I don't know the industry standard for such things, and your journal can follow whatever practices it wants. This is just what my newspaper...
I've done this a lot because a lot of my fiction takes queues from Comic Books which do this a lot (My first inspiration were the mid-2000s Superman/Batman comics which had some great mileage out o...
Whatever you decide the reason is for Numbers to take on others' personalities, you have to explain it to the reader in a way which makes sense. Your character could have Giovannini Mirror Syndr...
There is no set term for what you are describing, but it is often referred to as shifting POV (see this post from thestorydepartment.com) or third person multiple POV (see this lesson from the Scri...
To answer your question: all of your examples are grammatically correct. (Well done!) However, in most contexts, clarity and readability are even more important than grammatical correctness. By th...
C is the clearest and easiest to read. The commas not only set off the interrupter to highlight it but give the reader a moment to pause and note the two items being discussed (least and most).
Write a bunch of short pieces with no particular plot to get used to writing him. Drabbles (100 words), double-drabbles (200), flash (1,000 to 2,000). Your stories should just be little windows i...
I little trick i sometimes use if my own writing gets "too close" for comfort (and i mainly write horror): Be your own comic relief. Maybe in your story, the murder is slowly creeping closer behin...
Seeing an axe murderer at the end of a hallway is scary, but not seeing them and knowing they're somewhere nearby, maybe round the corner, or maybe behind you, is much scarier. This is because, as ...
Name/Define the fear and you get chance to avoid it I think using own self for measuring level of horror is not always the best if expecting/hoping for same effect for other readers. Or is it a go...
I think that one of the important things about a character like this is that there has to be some kind of consistency. You can have the wild mood-swings depending on who he is interacting with, but...
