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Since the reader doesn't need to meet the groups, but they do need to meet each other, why not just do it "off camera." You could do a chapter break right after the meeting, and start in again wit...
Try using a font editor/creator software. I installed one not too long ago on my own laptop because I wanted a more cursive look to parts of some of my chapters (for when someone is reading or wr...
The key is to, as soon as the new scene begins, make it clear that it is a continuation of the previous scene. Show the audience something they're familiar with, such as a scenario or camera angle ...
As to how you should research neurotypical society, I think you first need to define "neurotypical" for readers. I have been criticized myself for using this word without giving a full context. T...
I'll provide a few (non exhaustive) thoughts on 'how-to' details. This will vary from writer to writer. (1) I am in a writing group where people have 'a great idea' and jump in and start writing ...
This is a bit of a Your Mileage May Vary questions as it's based solely upon the story and the protagonist, and you as an author. As such, the answer is firmly "It Depends" In the end though, the ...
As a past "winner" of NaNoWriMo, I can tell you what this did for me. It set a lofty yet achievable writing goal for me to reach for It forced me to write, even when I didn't feel motivated (or w...
"why, if someone can write 2000 words a day, seven days a week, they need NaNoWriMo?" NaNoWriMo does not give someone something they don't already have, you're right, other than a specific motivat...
People are motivated by competition. We can do more, often much more, when we have others to compare ourselves against. In the Tour de France, riders ride in teams. Each lead rider has a team of te...
No one needs to do anything. It is your story. There are plenty of stories without death. One option that could also allow you to go on with a series is to have it so the Antagonist is "Driven out ...
For your concerns about the particular scene itself, I think Amadeus’s answer is perfect. But in a general sense, the first scene should tell the reader what to expect from the rest of the story. ...
Short answer: No, you do not need to kill the villain. Long answer: The hero's journey is an archetypal path that many stories use to show the growth and progress of their main character. This ...
My personal favourite is when the villain lives, but repents. In real life, violence is an ending for an argument where one (or both) sides have given up on trying to get the other to see things th...
"Cinderella" is a story with a heroine and villains, but the villains don't die in the story. That's because while the villains are "bad," they aren't so to the point of killing someone (unlike th...
You can write the story any way you like, but you run the risk of breaking your reader's attention to your tale, by suddenly making changes to your method of telling. Instead about thinking about ...
In The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner tells each part of the novel in the voice of a different character. In No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy switches back and forth between first and third per...
+1 Henry's answer. For an alternative approach, rely on the elements of structure; the three act structure specifically, and pace your writing accordingly. Use 30% for the first act. 1500 words. ...
I took @Henry Taylor's advice and pruned some characters and dialog that added depth to the story but didn't move it forward. I also had a couple of unbiased third parties read it and made some cha...
I am a professor. Your challenge is difficult, if you haven't taken ANY courses in the subject, it would be hard to accept you over somebody that has proven some ability and interest by taking a co...
In situations like this, my instinct is always to completely rephrase the entire section (whether that's just a sentence, a paragraph or even more). If you want to emphasize that both the building...
Dialect writing can be extremely difficult to read. The preferred technique today seem to be to do just a very small hint of it. The best way to portray the background and intelligence of a person ...
I wouldn't write that way. When I read, I internally hear what the characters are saying, and I certainly cannot hear any misspellings! If they are using slang or an actual local dialect, "y'all" ...
Every reader is different, so you can't please everyone. A story that contains graphic depictions of violence, rape, torture, etc is not a story that some folks will want to read (me included, gene...
The times I have fallen hard, the feeling took more than a chapter in my life. I pined for those soul mates for years, and they were usually unrequited. There are other times that I thought I was...
You are nowhere near as technically poor as you think you are. I can tell just from reading your question. It's clear, it makes sense, and is far better constructed than a hell of a lot of the writ...
