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Finding tips on writing fast You can find much information on the internet about increasing your handwriting speed, but when searching for such information you should be careful about potential do...
Great start! from this: Publishing and the like is a completely different field. ...are we going to assume that, with publishing off-topic (for now, I know that this is all pretty rough) sho...
I'd suggest asking yourself what it is that precedes the spark of attraction, and how that has differed from one instance to the next, for you. Is/was it a personality trait that attracted you to ...
This is an existing answer of mine; which I believe is on-point. https://writing.codidact.com/questions/36209#answer-36211 Basically: Falling in love is generally a combination of sexual attracti...
I don't have a lot of respect for the three-act structure for exactly the reason you've run into: It doesn't get you any mileage out of the second act. In fact, I'm going to go further than that: T...
I don't like reading made up languages, I'm going to skip over them anyway. So I seldom write more than a word. My approach is to keep the POV character thinking and analyzing what she can, which ...
+1 Mark, Galastel. The one thing I would add is structural. Don't forget that the first 15% of a book, before the Inciting Incident (that introduces the major problem), is where the reader expects ...
ANSWER: Best way to pull off an unusual structure is with literary writing, or with developing characters who are compelling on their own. In Lolita, the seminal events are backstory. We open ...
Humble people don't know that they are humble. Anyone who burns to say that they are humble, isn't. See Uriah Heep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Heep.
You can do it either way--a formal scene break or through the use of transitioning language. I stewed hard over this because like you, I had seen scenes defined as a change in location, time, or ...
A scene is a small dramatic arc within a story. Usually scenes take place in a single place and time, though that is not always the case. Usually it is clear that one scene has ended and another ha...
Any discussion of quality in art depends on your theory of what art is for. There seem to be two dominant theories of art today. Theory: art creates an experience In the case of literature, this...
In this story, the inciting incident, refusal of the call, and start of the quest are all backstory. Are you sure? You say they are heroes. They have set out on a secret mission. But is that a d...
Answer: In a case like this, the formula is to use others--your character's relationships with his own past self and/or with those he cares about, to create stakes. Example: He wants to help othe...
The structure of most stories is that the main character is led to make some fundamental choice of values. Secondary characters exists to be the subject of those values (the love interest), the pro...
Stakes come down to emotions, your characters need to have emotions or perhaps in the case of scifi machine characters, something that replaces emotion as a motivating force. +1 Mark Baker, yes th...
If you are documenting programming interfaces (APIs), look for a tool that generates documentation from comments in the code. This allows you to place the documentation right with the code, and th...
What Amadeus says about body language is true, but it can be hard to convey in prose. It is the kind of thing you can rely on actors to do well in film, if that is the medium (as the 90 second tim...
Basically you have to use obvious body language. If you have only 90 seconds, I wouldn't try for much drama, and friendship might be more difficult than something stronger, like love or dislike or ...
POV is all about letting the reader see the things they want to see. One changes POV so that the reader can see things from a different angle. We often do this in life. We move around a scene so ...
It turns out that "Global" doesn't mean global in Flare. We haven't figured out what it actually means, but to fix this you have to select "XML Editor" from the drop-down menu shown in the screen ...
Just use the other possessive form: The paper of Einstein et al. stated the opposite conclusion. Although it would read better if you replaced “of” with “by”, but then it would no longer be a...
My information is all of the negative variety, but in all the research I have done over the years on publishers and agents I have never seen one that wanted novellas. The novella always was, I beli...
So having said all that, it turns out that my publisher publishes novellas. https://chrismpress.com/books/magdalen-montague/ This may perhaps be something that small presses, particularly those th...
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