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In most of the books that i have read, which include a drunken character at some point, the person's speech mostly follows these points- Words which have two or more than two consonants continuo...
See your villain as a fully fleshed person who, while harsh and cruel for reasons of his own and having a dark past, is human. Dark doesn’t mean solitary. I was talking to a cousin of mine about ...
Falling in love is generally a combination of sexual attraction, complementarity, and commonality. Friendship is often founded on the last two; i.e. it is minus sexual attraction. Complementarity...
These answers are all really good, so I'll just add a couple of things. Imagine your setting as a character. You've already personified it by making it "uncaring" and "hostile". Now, make it be...
While the other answers are great and focus on tangible assets of the world, I'll try and find an answer that focuses instead on stylistic elements. I would say that a good way to get across apathy...
Some elements that can be clearly seen and described occur to me: Graffiti is common where people feel disenfranchised, it seems to form an outlet for people who feel they don't have a voice. Di...
"Hard" i believe leans toward environment characteristics. Uncaring leans toward other intelligent beings that, as intelligent they should, but for some reason they don't care for other intelligent...
A "sequel" that takes place during the events of its predecessor is called a midquel (or more precisely, an "intraquel"). In your case, only the first 25% of your second book is intraquel, but the ...
If you're feeling spiteful or subversive, you could try genie-twisting the prompt to write something that technically satisfies the prompt, but in an unconventional or unexpected way. Example by m...
I think the bigger problem with your story is that it sets the wrong reader expectations. Readers come into the story not having any idea what will be payed off, except maybe some hopes of what the...
I don't understand the dilemma, just write it the way you want. Ultimately if you want a strong women that embraces her femininity, you are going to put her in a dress, have her pay attention to he...
The initial problem was that writers (mostly, we assume, male) were writing female characters that were thinly imagined, stereotypical, and largely there only to reflect glory at the male protagoni...
While the other answers cover options well, there are some "soft, yet badass" tropes writers can look at: Embrace Girlishness Agent Peacock While this trope is more for male characters, it impl...
To quote Margaret Atwood - "You become a writer by writing, there is no other way." Starting a project is hard, no matter what, and accepting that it's going to be challenging - but ultimately wor...
My answer to The Psychology of Starting a Piece of Writing is a guide to getting started. Other answers there are good as well. This will explain how to get going on the first line, first scene, fi...
A respected creative writing professor of mine always says that plot is character. Repetitive or stale plots can be saved by interesting, original characters. Boring characters can't be redeemed by...
I think you are not writing a story, you are writing a vignette that captures a moment; this is more akin to poetry or a painting or a song or photography, those all (aim to) capture a feeling, emo...
Chapter names serve many purposes so, as long as your choice is one that fits with other chapter names, it's fine. If you always named the chapter after the POV character then you had one named af...
I just ran a search on all of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files for the '?!' mark. Why this series in particular? It's modern Stylistically, I expected to find '?!' there. I had it on my computer, so I...
I suppose it depends entirely upon what you're hoping to acheive. If the liminal location isn't there for any other reason to show geographical distance, then you probably don't spend any time focu...
Can a fight scene, component-wise, be too complex and complicated? In general I don't think so. If by "component-wise" you mean the motivations and back-stories of the people fighting it, the on...
Pick a name and go with it. If the fact of the new character being future Adrien isn't a secret from the reader, you don't have to worry about names that spoil the surprise. Use whatever name A...
One big advantage that may or may not be mentioned here is pacing. With a movie or TV show, due to the time limitations, not only do you have less freedom with content, but you also are limited by ...
Onomatopoeia consists in creating words whose sound is similar to the sound you want to reproduce. For instant, an explosion could be replaced by a single Bang! or the barking of a dog could ...
If you want special areas to denote onomatopoeia, I have a great new medium for you to discover: The comic book. Unfortunately, the narrative medium was not made for the purpose you're proposing. ...
