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I recommend the Power Thesaurus, which is pretty comprehensive and crowd-voted (like this site). An example here is for vagina. I would say pick median word, or a word that is clear without being ...
I'm used to calling the person who converts handwritten documents into (digital or ink on paper) typed manuscript a typist. They used to be a lot more common; large offices would have a "typing po...
Maybe a third person omniscient narrator would serve you better. This narrator knows the inner streams of thoughts of every character in the story, hence it can expose them in the narration as requ...
If I were writing, they would have to be suspicious, no matter how this affected the story. The only good reason to NOT be suspicious is some form of love, romantic, sibling, parental, etc. For exa...
An alternative answer: You can leave it up to the reader to wonder whether the character knew. This depends on your writing style, but it is actually possible to show everything the character act...
Independent of the Referencing system, your option (1) seems the most reasonable: you are quoting the question correctly and entirely, i.e. the text inside the double-quotes is exactly the text y...
I've been struggling with this as well, @Keker. I'd ask you this: Would you describe all sections of your manuscript as childish? Are some better and more mature in style than others? This thought...
I think you could take this as a seat of the pants issue, and just be a discovery writer. Write your book. Keep your notes, as you have, disconnected or not. Do not focus on the future until your s...
There are only three rules for your motivation: It has to be personal. If this isn’t something you really want, you won’t want to work for it. Don’t decide to do the glass of wine if you could c...
You don't need to invent new names for concepts, unless they somehow relate to the storyline. Instead, use relative names like tomorrow and yesterday, but not Thursday or next-week. Relative Cel...
It's possible that you have 2 problems here. The first is that you're trying to find convincing arguments in support of someone who rules through fear, power and intimidation. Generally, these typ...
The only way to not be criticized, is to not share. If you must post, put it to a Dropbox or Drive account and then make select content shareable with temp links to select people. Control who can ...
Give him a compassionate reason, even if it is wrong Like maybe mutants sometimes murder their friends in uncontrolled rages. Day believes (correctly, from one of your other questions) that these...
The world isn't all black and white - it's grey and gray. There are arguments to be made for dictatorship. Consider, at the very least, the famous joke "a camel is a horse designed by a committee."...
According to this question, you'd be in trouble if you quoted entire songs, but single lines should be okay. Making the quotes approximate would ensure you don't run into any legal issues, but woul...
The best way to try and understand how someone might have arrived at different convictions/beliefs from yourself is to go back into their history and see the incremental steps and events that lead ...
How can I write from the point of view of a character whose beliefs, at best, I disagree with, and at worst, view as immoral and inhumane? How can I give Day convictions in his beliefs when ...
Put your research into real life propaganda spoken by real dictators and oppressors. These dictators could never have become so popular if what they said didn't make a certain amount of sense to so...
If the reader will struggle to find their flow, you have work to do. Consider Paradise Lost - it flows seamlessly and once you accustom yourself to the Middle English, each line is a delight. When ...
Self-projection into one's stories is an inevitability. Whose lens affects your outlook on life, and thus the worldbuilding/tone of your novel? That's right, yours. Who is the only person you have ...
In addition to Matthew Dave's excellent answer.. Whether a character/story is interesting or not is more about the character/story themselves rather than where the inspiration for it comes from. ...
You are creating a world and a society. Have faith in your choices and create your own names for months if you wish. What reason would your world have for having months named after Roman emperors? ...
You're looking at "uniqueness" the wrong way, I think. Look, for example, at The Lord of the Rings: Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin are all hobbits. They come from the same place, they share the same ...
It will really depend on the story itself, the tone of it, how you present the story. The Lord of the Rings, for example, has a 'diverse' fantasy cast and no religion. It depends on the contract ...
Religion is barely mentioned or touched upon in much, arguably most, general fiction. I've even read books like this by authors I know to be highly religious. As a religious person myself, I occa...
