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I constantly run into questions like this. They intimate to me too much fancy booklearnin' and nowhere nearly enough thinking. THE POV IS HELD BY THE LAST PERSON TO PERFORM AN ACTION. Cindy woke ...
Here are some ideas: 1) Think of what nation he is a part of. Is it a real country or is it fictional? I created a country named Swissland, so feel free to use that. 2) Who are his friends? Who ...
The short answer is that you can't. Symbolism is really a property of a culture, not an individual work. Symbols are a kind of second order language, and you can no more make up symbols out of whol...
I don't have a problem with '?!', I think people understand it, so it is fair game. I would have a problem with the interrobang ('‽'). If I ran across that in a book it would drop me out of my rea...
Asking general questions about writing is useless if the lessons learned aren't put into practice. I agree that we need a section for manuscripts. Talking about writing in a hypothetical sense is...
I'll give another option: 8) Split a major (sub)plot in half, and move the 2nd half into to a later book. It will definitely take some re-writing, but your 1st book seems overloaded. The temptat...
Minor point as I've met people who don't get this - authors and publishers are only paid for the new copies of their books. When you buy books from any kind of second-hand store, it's only the stor...
Just a bystander here, but imported content is very off-putting. It basically says to visitors: There is so little traffic that they have to copy stuff from elsewhere so you don't notice there're...
Unless people here want to reask and reanswer questions previously ask on the Other Site (I wouldn't), I would say the data import is orthogonal. Something else is there really is no way other than...
I wonder if segregating content that was imported and not further improved would help. Create a new category, maybe called "Archive", and move there any post that hasn't had any modifications post...
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Can there be more than one main character? Absolutely! can their be a protagonist and other main characters that the story focuses on? Yep, and that sounds like what you are describing ...
I agree with the answer by @motosubatsu, +1. What I would add is it seems you are not really writing a children's story, which just doesn't demand very challenging concepts for them. I think you ...
In your first example, all three of your sentences focus on the effect. Instead, mix in some descriptions of the cause. Instead of: You have a feeling of immense dread as you take in the macabr...
It is permissible, as long as it is obvious to the reader that is what happened. That said, personally, I put in a scene break, which I can be certain is obvious to the reader. Just three asterisk...
I don't know if it exists in your country, but as a graduate student in the USA, I once researched 3 years worth of newspaper headlines in four "national" papers (e.g. The New York Times), and I fo...
This is an opinion question. My opinion is that people are generally given names. Some later decide to reject their given name, and name themselves, but for the most part it is their parents that d...
[Note: I tried to post this as comment, but for some reason it didn't work] I guess it's because the URL of QPixel has changed; probably the code interfacing to Stack Exchange somewhere contains a...
Perhaps if you need a term, try "magical realism"? 98% like our world, but that little difference is what makes it fantasy... whether it's if subways will sometimes take you sideways to a dif...
From my understanding, the way I've done things here is okay. The CC BY-SA license essentially says that you must attribute licensed work in a [reasonable] manner specified by the licensor. The li...
Footnotes informing a reader of which previous work an event occurred in are ubiquitous in comic books, but I've never heard of them being done in a novel before, nor would I really recommend it. T...
So this is kinda tricky. On one hand: what you said. I don't believe it's a breach of the license, because an attribution necessarily involves citing the author's name (or username, in this case) ...
It might be useful to compare this to what doctors do. Doctors first establish symptoms. These are the facts of the case. Notice that it is possible to miss or discount a symptom. The data being ga...
