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The idea of a protagonist "magically getting super strong" is not one you should entirely throw out the window, depending on the type of story you are telling. Luke "magically got super strong" at ...
A name is not actually an invariant property of a person or object. A name is an expression of the relationship between a person and another or between a person and an object. Thus the same person ...
Mark Baker's response more-or-less says it all. Let me rephrase some of it: A book always has just one POV, namely that of the author, who is not necessarily a character. Then, the author may pret...
I'm going to try the practice-practice-practice answer, but what has been helping me up until now is editing. Go ahead and write the first draft with whatever words come to mind. Don't let search...
In the real world, especially before the internet, technical expertise and education correlated heavily with economic privilege and access to resources. If the character isn't formally educated, th...
I had this problem when I began writing, but it was because of plotting. I solved it by becoming a discovery writer, inspired by Stephen King (a discovery writer I thought was great). Plotting a n...
I don't know if I'd call that fourth-wall breaking as much as meta. Meta subtly acknowledges realities outside the text without explicitly addressing the reader. Tolkien's unnamed narrator using ...
Apparently, your third person point of view is not omniscient, or you would not face this problem, and if you tried to describe your character's feeling simultaneously, having the previous narratio...
To expand on the comment from Lew from this page: Scrivener does not allow you to play gifs directly, neither in your research folder, nor when embedded in a page. I've looked through a few sites...
This is the result of two misguided pieces of advice given to most aspiring writers today: "show, don't tell", and "jump right into the action". Taken together, these two piece of advice leave no r...
I agree with what Mark Baker said, but you might want to consider the following. If she said it is your intellectual property, that suggests you still own the copyright and you didn't give it away...
This scenario seems to be character-based to me. You may not yet have developed your characters "fully", but that could come through actual writing and a bit of outlining. It seems that you have ...
No, it doesn't have to be. Your example: 88k vs 75k. Those are already very similar word-counts. A reader will most likely not tell the difference when reading them. My example: Alternate history...
IEEE uses a style that is common for journal articles and academic works. The citation is the full "description" of the work -- author, title, date, publication, etc. The document you linked desc...
Your question is too broad. I'll narrow it down for my answer. Procedure In the case of coauthored biographies, the coauthor typically interviews the primary author (and other persons), assembles...
In wikipedia I read that Cary Elwes co-wrote a screenplay. I imagine that when you co-write a screenplay, the work might be just as collaborative, i.e. non-independent, as when you publish a book w...
The "darkest hour" does not fall at the end, as Daniel Cann claims, nor is it the second turning point, as FraEnrico asserts. The "darkest hour" is usually called the crisis. The crisis comes af...
The main problem with "revealing too much" is info-dumps. Boring the reader early on. If you can reveal a lot without boring the reader, that's great! The opposite of what you do - dribbling bits ...
Medieval men typically worked a trade. Make him gifted in his trade so that commoners come from miles around to acquire his goods. Even nobility have heard of his skills. You can add artistic mast...
You already got two really good answers, i.e. make it part of a well thought through backstory and make it so the reader really just doesn't care how they got there. I would like to add that if t...
Having in mind the OP's comment... By sheltered, I meant very sheltered. This owes to the fact the protagonist is next in line for the throne, but the rest of his family was murdered when he w...
The golden rule when writing sci-fi is 'just enough to tell the story'. If you've spent 3 years on this and you're still doing research then, basically, you're doing it wrong. Write the story. I ca...
I would suggest that first of all you divide your questions above in two groups: the ones about society and the ones about...well, the rest. You can start with either group of questions. Say you ...
Research can always reach a point where it becomes excessive, no matter what field you're in (even if your field is research, you do want to occasionally turn your attention to publication!). But ...
It's all bout the element of hiding important facts and creating smoke and mirrors. Not sure what your story is about, but you can have it so this character suddenly walks off when no one was look...
