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Fiction writers (like me) portray a problem and a resolution (good or bad), usually for a main character (MC). In the process, we strive to create emotions in the reader ABOUT that character; so th...
On top of Amadeus's idea, I would investigate whether you could achieve what you want with some kind of trust, probably a special needs trust. You should seek local legal advice if this is somethi...
I am going to start by disagreeing with @Amadeus. The first job of a writer is not to entertain. At least, not necessarily. I don't think anyone reads All Quiet on the Western Front, or The Old Ma...
I have read a great many books, and frankly I cannot remember ever being emotionally aroused, at all. Now hear me out... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion#/media/File:Plutchik-wheel.svg shows...
As stated in the other answer, ESP should be in all caps. One way around this problem is to come up with a term that people would use in every day usage to refer to someone with this ability. This ...
The advice is simple. Nail your butt to the couch and type. It won't always be fun, and your first draft will be very bad. If your expectation is to finish a beautiful story painlessly with a bli...
TL;DR Writing a complex story can be a lengthy project, use a project management technique—such as Scrum—to give yourself a fighting chance! The Specifics Writing a book (or even a reasonable le...
Forget the petty everyday annoyances like being stuck in traffic. What awakens your righteous anger? What makes your blood boil? Here are some examples. Injustice If I read about a child being bu...
In Movies there's the concept of Set Pieces. These are exciting moments in your story you want to hit that will be lavish and engaging, both for you and the reader. Set Pieces can act as mile marke...
You are referencing rule books for RPGs, so I am going to base my answer on those as examples, because I know the fascination of reading those books without playing the corresponding games. There...
I think there is a difference between making the reader angry, and making a character angry. First, to Totomus's idea of looking to Internet trolls: Notice they attack their targets personally wit...
This may be opinion based. My advice is to at least finish it - and here's why. If you allow yourself to not finish, you are setting a precedent for yourself. You are patterning to you that you don...
I suppose one alternative is to play it as you yourself found the problem: Start your detective out as a great detective but a novice occult detective, that just stumbled into the whole occult side...
What you are describing as mild sexualization is PG or teen is generally stating the content being viewed is suitable for ages 13 and up and is basically dependent on adult guardians’ decision as t...
Always keep in mind, that the youth isn't so pure and innocent, like 30 years ago. The most teens start their sexual relationships around 13 and 14 (at least in Germany where I live), some earlier,...
You've got characters, you've got a world. What you need is conflict: it is conflict that makes a story. This can be conflict between characters, conflict with some other force ("antagonist" or nat...
There are not that many plots available. Pick one and see what your characters do with it. Your main character(s) can attempt to: Go (or escape from) somewhere (and maybe come back?) Get or find ...
Discovery Write. Discovery writing doesn't require a plot, exactly. It does require a problem, undesirable situation, or confrontation to get started; all of these are under the banner of "conflic...
I would point you towards How to open a novel? Extending the answers to that question from "first page" to "first chapter", I'd say the first chapter should give us an idea of what the story is goi...
I kept coming back to this passage in your question I keep feeling the need to explain everything in hyper detail Please, consider just not to. There's a saying along the lines of that the a...
I personally think that most people give too much importance to the plot than to what the story means, or what the characters have to say. I feel that is because a clever plot is more exciting and ...
Anthropomorphic personifications of death are quite old, and the older ones focus on the frightening aspects of death. Look, for example, at Oscar Wilde's The Young King: From the darkness of a...
The first draft is like the word says: A draft! The draft is the basic skeleton of your story, not much detail, not much deepness, just in everything: not much This is a fact. Like you said in po...
Going over a draft the first time around, I look for the things that really don't work, things that stick out like a sore thumb. Those might be issues with the flow, internal contradictions and inc...
Names should always be written as they actually are. Because they are names, unless of course, the pronunciation of the name or the format makes it difficult for the reader to understand or convey ...
