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I want to add one more tool: Archivos. (No personal link, I just saw a demo from them and plan to check them out when I start writing more.) https://archivos.digital/about-archivos/ First,...
I think it is "natural" for us to at times suppress some of our traits and rely on others. Yes, a woman can be intuitive and feeling and empathetic and sympathetic, she can desire fair outcomes. Bu...
I have found the Myers-Briggs assessment to be more useful for its process than the end result. As I go through the questions for each character I have to decide how they will deal with certain sit...
I was looking for the exact same thing. Dug around and found ways to do it outside Word, but really wanted to do this without leaving Word. Did some more reading and discovered the key is to run a ...
Nobody can tell whether people will be willing to read your blog There is no way to tell. First of all they have to like Blogs. Not everybody likes the style, some people prefer reading mostly boo...
There is only one thing you need to grow a blog. It must be remarkable. By that I mean it must be worth remarking upon. This can be because it is great, solves a problem, is notably bad, or anythin...
I'm seeing three big generalizations there : Women want to have a baby Women want to be with a guy Money is important in relationships Any one of those will alienate a significant part of an au...
What you are lacking seems to be a bit of empathy and different points of view in this scenario. You are assuming everyone shares the same opinion about this topic: Women will have a baby at one ...
I notice a little negative feedback for your "assumptions" about men and women in your excerpt. I think this is mainly due to common terror of violating the social and political correctness in soci...
Repetition is not inherently bad Yes, using the same word over and over again is not a good thing, but repeating a word every once in a while can be a good thing. You might want to repeat certain ...
No one WANTS to spend a year editing something and then get a mountain of rejection letters. But it's the people who tackle that head-on who tend to be successful, not the people who look for shor...
The number of pages is as many as are needed. As Bryan shows, a chapter can be as short as a word, or a sentence. it can be very long. In general, most chapters are a continuous narrative (a combi...
Forgive me for nitpicking, but I can understand anything in this. 18+ could mean 75 years old, and you don't write the same way for that age group as you would a 18-35 year old target audience. T...
Perhaps you've guessed this may be another form of "Kill your darlings" I wonder if it may be the "add to the character's development/ lay the groundwork but doesn't add up to the current plot" sc...
What are various ways to reduce reader fatigue by adjusting scenes? Make sure there is a point to the scene. Does the POV character have a goal? If not, consider adding one. A scene with a goal w...
A rhetorical question is still a question, isn't it? I would use a question mark for a question and a period for a statement. "Why does this always happen to me?" "Rats, this always happens wh...
This is a difficult question to answer, as, in my opinion, this is largely a matter of opinion. The short answer is to do both and see what works best for you.
The approach I have taken is to be aware of that possibility - of becoming contaminated. I would argue - You want to be contaminated by good style. You want to write your own ideas in your own v...
First Hand Knowledge One main reason to read in the genre you want to write something - say young adults - is because you want to understand through direct knowledge what it is about that style th...
If you only need a few of these half-dressed femme fatales, you could make the exposed parts an illusion. The women might be warrior wizards who use a small part of their magic to bring an element...
As Amadeus has stated, impulse control is the greatest attribute of maturity. Additional benefits include... Being comfortable in your own skin, never acting defensive and falsely humble. Being ...
To me, the biggest components of maturity are a significant level of understanding, based on one's own experiences or what has been observed; control over impulsivity and rash or risky actions. ...
I'd recommend reading up on emotional intelligence. Being high in EI is what I associate with maturity, especially being high in assertiveness. Goleman lays out the basic traits that make up EI. F...
We've discussed use of vulgar language in fiction on this forum a number of times, e.g. Swearing - Censor, allude, or include? and Swearing in a book, within a context. Too offensive? To summarize...
The old adage is, "write what you know." To add to that (and make it more of an encouragement than a rejection), we can also say, "know what you write." Your own personal observation of people an...
