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One comment and one answer have both mentioned Dexter, but it doesn't seem to me that either has explained how and why we sympathize with Dexter, despite the fact that he's a serial killer. The st...
The simple answer is simply to describe the awareness of the fight. I've been doing martial arts for three years now, so I know that your mentality shifts a lot depending on what style you are usin...
I usually have the same problem. What I'd do is get a notebook with a hard cover, or just find a wall or something.
The voice-recorder suggestion is probably the ideal, but if you're generally in an environment where you can't use that, you might try a note-taking app on your smartphone, if you have one. Everno...
This may not answer your question, but it is something I have done. Pros I found: You manage smaller files and are not dealing with the entire story. It is easier to find your place and manage w...
I'm not sure about using Git commit. I don't use it much. How about tokenizing your text in Python? Then calculate the entropy per sentence. This would show difference between sentences. Alternat...
As with any major writing project, I would suggest beginning with some reading. Some good examples of this kind of trilogy-spanning epics include... Anne Mccaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series...
If you are just starting this run of 12 books, I would write the fist trilogy before making any large decisions. I would even suggest making the first book as stand-alone as possible. Some authors...
Names of characters are typically protected by copyright. (I say typically because some very generic names used in many works, like "John Doe", are not attributable to any single original work). ...
Writing an article (or book) in somebody else's name is called "ghostwriting". Typically ghost writers agree under contract to remain anonymous. If you have no such agreement with your sister, and...
As a world-building exercise, not as a story. It sounds to me like you are engaged in world-building; which means solving the problems of politics, behavior, technology levels, geography, communic...
I would take my cue from the (handful of) real women that joined armies. Most of them do it to save their countries, not for fun. She wasn't exactly a "princess," but Joan of Arc was a medieval gi...
You have this problem a few paragraphs into the first chapter. Don't stop and think now! Accept that you'll get into the rhythm after a few more paragraphs and that you may even produce a couple ...
What is throwing me off is your "Without action". Do you mean without having an action scene? Without the heroes fighting directly against the villains? Here are some random ideas. Tell of the ...
Try describing the physical reactions ... elevated heart rate, sweaty palms, trouble thinking. And maybe the one holding the gun is calmer because he's getting what he wants - or is more nervous b...
As author Eric T. Benoit once said, your job as a writer isn’t to convey emotion, but to invoke it. Trying to convey emotion more often than not leads to tired clichés of clenched fists and sweat d...
If you are writing a screenplay, you'll have all the visual and auditory resources of film at your disposal: Ominous music, a dark palette, etcetera, which is what Star Wars uses. However, please ...
One can plan plot in details, or one can design characters' traits and see what story can't help but develop from that. You might find either approach or something in between serves you, but it sou...
The best way to show a character is to get in their head. If your writing style permits it you can let us know what they are thinking. What qualities do they consider virtues? what qualities are fl...
It may not matter (to you) There is one thing you must separate: What the story is about AND What a future movie/TV movie will make it. Don't worry about such details. The difference between the o...
I like to say that broadly speaking, Wikipedia is mostly trustworthy when statements are cited, but it's never a source. There are several parts to this. Wikipedia is broadly and mostly trustwort...
The Room is about a man whose love life runs off the rails and ends in a brutal break-up. This is a topic that a lot of people are interested in. La La Land is about the same theme. Shrek seems lik...
What is interesting to the reader completely depends on the reader (the targeted and reached audience). For instance, people at a library will like different kind of books than people commuting by ...
In addition to the good answers given so far, confusion can manifest itself literally as confusing the unexpected information with the more familiar. For example: He told me he currently worke...
You could use what I would call "hearsay". Basically secondary or tertiary characters of the story providing information without giving too much away through common small talk. Example: Protagon...
