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I have 107 characters. In a single-book, standard length, middle-grade novel. There are a small handful of auxiliary characters too. Obviously, they're not all main characters. I'm not sure h...
Step one is to get feedback that you're basically on the right track. A lot of people don't feel ready to show their poems to anyone (maybe outside of close friends or family) and need some encour...
I would use a Foil. From the link: In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to highlight particular qualities of the other character. [.....
I am not a lawyer, and this is a legal question. Read This Recent Answer of mine. The answer is (supported by a link to an attorney blog) the courts will look at the totality of your work. If they...
There is an alternative that I see to the proposed answers. You can in fact use the proper names of items. Here's how. The first time the children encounter something they are unfamiliar with, the...
It's very common to change titles with new editions of a book. Obviously, the title will be translated to a non-English language with this new publisher. When translating, it's common to change...
A textbook I used to use for technical writing had this on the cover Nobody wants to read what you write. That sounds discouraging, but often people are looking at technical information to an...
There are many elements of style, of the narrator voice, that have changed over time. @ChrisSunami talks about this, and brings the example of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel - one example I was ...
I appreciate this question as it's something that can definitely be overdone. It seems to be a problem mostly of the plot driving the characters. We need people to do XYZ, so let's have character...
Your best bet may be a first person narrator. If your narrator is a character anyway, then the limited POV shouldn't be an issue. With 3rd person narration, even if it's from the POV of one speci...
The easiest way to time-travel without paradoxes is the rewind universe. Think of the time-machine as a bubble that preserves your body and mind. The entire universe around this bubble reverts to ...
I agree with Galastel. Time Travel is usually classified as "science fiction" because, unlike fantasy, science fiction doesn't introduce magical powers or beings, everything is supposed to be withi...
Thinking a bit further on the comment I've made, I think bookmarks are the most effective. Here's why: I'm offered a flyer, if I take it, I read, then throw away. Or, I find it interesting, stuff ...
Time travel can enable the plot - appear as a plot device once at the start, and never show up again. Time travel is part of the setup, not part of the story, as it where. This is the case of Mark ...
Porthos needs more depth. Actually, there is a psychological theory of friendship. The premise is two-fold: First, if you and I like the same kind of music, the same kind of books, the same kinds ...
First, from the description it is clear that these are not three similar characters. In fact, there are two MCs, and another character. The question is "how to make the reader feel that the third c...
To answer your questions. Some famous poets have paired their poems with their own artwork (e.g. William Blake). Most of the famous poets in textbooks don't (or at least not to the level that th...
Screenplays are also very difficult to sell, for a first-timer. Books are quite a bit easier. Unlike a screenplay, a book is in its final form, and relatively easy to produce, big publishers can do...
One useful example may be the Worm/Ward series (Especially Ward, though it's still in progress), by Wildbow/JC Macrae. In this world, people often get superpowers due to intense trauma. Superpowe...
Writing your short story as a standalone is highly useful. You want your story to be readable by as wide an audience as possible, so you don't want to depend on readers having already read your nov...
In my own very brief experimentation with poetry, I always found it helpful to start with the image, the symbolism, as it were. So I wouldn't be "giving my poem more symbolism" - I'd start with the...
Don't write it in. What readers do in their own fan responses is on them, not on you, and you can't prevent people from shipping anyone they like. But if you don't want canonical romance, just......
In the rebooted Jughead comic (in the Archie Comic Universe), Jughead is explicitly Ace. He tries dating someone (they were in a burger costume), but realized, "nope, not me." I really love how d...
The most famous ship of all (perhaps the one that started it) is K/S aka Kirk/Spock. Even though both characters have been portrayed as 100% straight. Many other characters have been shipped in...
Translating your own work using GoogleTranslate is not plagiarism, any more than hiring someone to translate your work would be considered plagiarism. (In the latter case, you would insert a line s...
