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The main problem will likely be that your readers should like your protagonist - you want them to read a whole series with him as the main character after all. If the character you like suddenly wi...
I seems to me that no one really took into account that we are talking about freewriting. The whole point of freewriting is that you don't stop to reflect, but write down your stream of consciousn...
Why should it be either/or? College (actually a College Diploma) is often thought of as a pass-key to something else. However, it is generally only a pass-key to entry-level jobs. However, that ...
NO, do not go to college for that. I spent twelve years in college, I have five college degrees and the last is a PhD, I was a professor (and I am currently a research scientist at a university). ...
Without seeing your articles, we can only guess. My guess is that you don't bring anything new and exciting to the table. I am an atheist and will be one as long as I can think rationally (and when...
Complete resolution of a crisis would be a DXM. Pushing the story in a new direction (by creating another crisis that would need to be resolved) is all right. As far as I can see, your twist can m...
Keep a list of names Early in Time Clare's writing podcast Couch to 80k he sets the reader a task of spending 10 minutes inventing names. I loathe and detest coming up with names, and was dreadin...
I'd say for this to work, there should be sufficient information before this point for the readers not to see the antagonist as a bad guy. Machiavellian perhaps, but not evil. Then, for the antag...
An issue I occasionally encounter in my DnD games is naming NPCs... Typically I have to consider race and region, but for when I'm writing (usually short stories and aborted epics, lol) I tend to d...
Sorry for not being as in-depth with my answer as the others are, but X-Mind is designed for this stuff. Just click X-Mind 8 Pro at the top and click download - again, at the top - to get the free ...
According to Write Right Now, using sentence fragments in scripts is standard. But take a look at any half-competent screenplay and you’ll find it full of clipped sentences, which still make se...
Apparently it will all depend on the kind of book you want to write. Literary fiction is full of difficult characters. I don't think Captain Ahab is very likeable, and yet the book's a classic. Bu...
Of course. Yes. All the time. One advantage of this approach is that the reader can (almost) always know more that the point of view character. Another advantage is the ability to explore a comp...
I disagree that the protagonist can be a true man-behind-the-curtain, only giving orders to other characters. Yes, this character knows more than the the other characters, but is this character und...
I think it is a world building question, but I'll answer it here because I'll be sleeping by the time the site police move it over to the worldbuilding SE. How you communicate with your Higher Bei...
If your "higher beings" are something that you can talk with, you could form contracts with the beings in exchange for power. Great power needs often a great price. The higher the being is, the mor...
You should focus on one aspect and make it available in slightly augmented form in the other phases, too - or simply think about whether you really need those two parts The problem is that you are...
Exposition as dialogue is a good way to keep the story moving forward, but only if it still makes sense as dialogue. You can't have two senators discussing the name of the state's capital, but you ...
I don't know about any guidelines, but I agree that in your example the main character's reaction seems off. If you're trying to shake off someone who's already suspicious, saying "stop asking!" a...
In psychology, the tendencies you have described are termed internatlizing and externalizing behavior. In extreme cases those tendencies lead to internalizing disorders, which were long thought to...
I've always considered the two poles as cooperative and competitive. Cooperators want to do things in a group, to get the opinions if not the consensus of others, and consider their own wants sec...
This will largely depend on the kind of book you are writing and your writing style. Contemporary genre fiction is often rather focussed and almost concise. The rule that everything you write shou...
Disclaimer: I don't know much about litRPG, but I may be able to help some. First, a quick internet search for "how to write litRPG books" brings up articles such as this and this. Of course, tho...
I think that the best How-To-Write guide you could follow is the one you created yourself. Most advice found on online blogs and articles are the result of analysis. They pick a work they like, is...
Webnovel.com has a writing guide, and many of their works have exactly the rpg-based genre you speak of. The genre and trope is very popular in Asia.
