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Who are the readers of your magazine? The students? Imagine then, that you get a subscription to some journal. However, instead of providing you with carefully selected, edited and reviewed conten...
Implicit support how can I write a male-dominated culture without implicitly supporting it? This is tricky, but here are two simple things you can do that will help Include fully developed ...
All stories are moral. That is, all stories are about a choice between values -- a choice that the protagonist does not want to make but is eventually forced to make. Saying that stories are moral ...
Working within your premise of "novel as message", very few messages are black-and-white. Most will bring problems if ignored and also if taken too far, or too literally. Humans (and maybe any othe...
If a newspaper/magazine were to receive information relating about a crime committed by a member of the public and are considering publishing this information, then the section on Privacy in the BB...
Although you have the right to tell the truth, that is not defined by what you just know must be true. The truth must be verifiable. What proof do you have to publish, or to back up what you publis...
You are writing a script (screenplay) for a visual display; I'd follow (roughly) the format of a script. For this particular question, you are looking for "Personal Direction" (of an actor) and the...
There are little inconsistencies in your explanation that allow for misinterpretation by others. Due to this, society traces its lineage through matrilineal lines. By semantical definition ...
Sexism is fine in a story WHEN it is a part of the story's world, or a character's personality, and NOT the lesson of the story itself. It's lazy to say that a story is "sexist" unless the story i...
It is not sexist. Thinking it is sexist requires some mental gymnastics, and actively searching something to nitpick about is, I would say, in my humble opinion, everything wrong with postmodernism...
I don't think there is anything wrong with your vocabulary; if YOU are worried about it, I'd suggest you consult an online thesaurus at times. Here is one I use, it's fine and extremely extensive (...
Secespitus's answer of showing them the negative possibilities of the 'wrong' interpretation is a good idea. I know writers are meant to "Show not tell". Sometimes it might be useful to straight o...
IMO it is the job of the author to guide the imagination of the reader, not force the imagination of the reader too specifically. So some details are important, but a blow by blow is seldom necessa...
For what it's worth, because this is a pretty subjective topic, I think the less you show your audience in horror the more terrifying it becomes. You have to set a scene certainly but the more you ...
From a pure publishing perspective, super explicit depictions will turn a lot of publishers off, nevermind readers. I have a pretty high tolerance, and usually what I ask is how neccesarry a scene...
This is why many people laugh at feminism. Yes, saying that losing one's fertility is a price that some are reluctant to pay implies that fertility has value. Duh. Who in his or her right mind wou...
I am a woman, and I don't find this sexist. It is only sexist if the implication is that women are somehow inferior because this process renders them infertile. I don't read that into this idea; ...
You have a very real world example here on Earth to provide insight into this. Consider Monks and Nuns. Many religious orders of this sort require chastity of their members. Then ask yourself th...
A narrator can mix up past and present tense without issues, especially if the narrator is telling a story now about events that happened in the past, but is giving their thoughts as to what they t...
Assuming you aren't a woman yourself, I would suggest talking this idea through with several women to see how it strikes them. It can be difficult to see through the eyes of a group you don't belo...
I have heard it stated as a fact on a number of occasions that people in general only make two serious decisions per year, the rest of the time they just go with the flow. Most of the time life h...
I have experience of a similar situation - not Chinese or Korean, but Indian. I married into a family that has Indian ancestry but now live in the Caribbean and in addition I have a large number of...
You don't try to be accurate, you anglicize it. If you are writing in English about a Korean family, the reader expects you to translate dialogue into understandable English that is not awkward. ...
Consider, for example, The Lord of the Rings: you've got the Fellowship (nine characters), you've got Bilbo, Elrond, Galadriel, Theoden, Eomer, Eowyn, Denethor, Faramir, Sauron, Saruman, and severa...
I would suggest including transliterations of the actual terms and including a glossary explaining them. This is done a lot in English translations of manga where Japanese honorifics are kept in a...
