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The complaint you are perceiving isn't really about too many names or too many characters. It is about the story's complexity. If there is only a single character, but she is juggling dozens of s...
I used to run a Star Trek RP game and when doing cliffhanger-esque sessions all the time. Normally I'd start off the next game with a short recap about who was where and when and why.... Since th...
While you are recording the info during the campaign take note of specific things your players reacted to and use them to pull your players back into the story. Remind them of decisions they made ...
There are 3573 entries on Goodreads with the word "f***" in the title (I only splat it for this site, not for my own sensibility). The titles contain the full word, spelled out. 2744 entries with...
Your story reminds me of an Indian movie I once watched, named P.K. I'd recommend it to you (with subtitles of your language, obviously). It's a story about an alien who looses the key to his spac...
I studied literature at school, and the most important thing I learnt is that the obejctive of a poet is to transmit something, whether an idea or a feeling. To do so, the poet uses a range of tech...
Joe is insecure and craves approval Joe has a deperate need to be looked up to. It is more important to him than other people's feelings, or even his ability to read the room. Joe hangs out with ...
I would name it once. Have the viewpoint character notice the panic on the other character's face. It can be near the beginning or closer to the middle of the scene. Maybe later. By "scene" I m...
Both. If I get an idea, I'll have a good sense of the target audience. The age group, the genre, etc. But when I'm writing, it might morph. And that's okay. I'll keep writing and let it be wha...
The real question is what do you want to accomplish by writing. If it is to make money or gain fame or impress the neighborhood, then you would likely write to engage one or more target audiences. ...
Let me expand on @Cyn's answer. Tolkien wrote for himself. He was sure there would never be an audience for the Silamrillion, and was surprised by the wide acclaim of The Lord of the Rings. So wer...
Yes you can, for example Record of the Lodoss War started as a Japanese DnD campaign that the DM started writing transcripts which became popular and were novelized and later animated. You only ha...
As others have noted, you have to avoid names. You can't use their world or some specific monsters (no illithids!). Other monsters, like gnolls and orcs, predate D&D and thus are fair game (so ...
+1 Galastel; your "barabarian" might find those towering buildings just foolish, he doesn't automatically see any advantage in them at all, they isolate people, they are hard to climb, you are trap...
It is sad fact of the publishing industry is that they have seen far too many fantasy novels or trilogies based on the author's D&D games. Nothing loses the interest of a pubisher's fantasy lin...
Grammatically, there's nothing inherently wrong with it. But stylistically, it's definitely something you would want to curtail in formal writing. Many writers will rarely, if ever, have multiple ...
As a person who loves reading, I can tell you that I enjoyed so many books where main characters were male, even though I am a girl. I see personality in every character, and that's what matter, th...
Your setup reminds me of multiple stories I've read as a kid of a group of characters getting stuck on a desert island. In particular, I'm fairly sure Jules Verne had one with kids, I recall anothe...
I would go with characters have dead siblings; but that happens off-screen. Showing it on-screen, and in-period-realistic, might be off-putting itself. Everything you are talking about is a stati...
Is child mortality relevant to your story? If not, then I just wouldn't bring it up. There are all sorts of tragedies in the world. I don't consider a story unrealistic because it failed to discuss...
Put the first instance on-screen, then use that as an assumed precedent for why the others disappear over time. You could use the solution of mentioning their deaths in passing, since that was like...
When I am writing an action scene - my Secondary Protag getting shot, for example, I use shorter sentences. It echoes the thought pattern of the characters, implies that everything is happening ver...
As someone with ADHD, I've always found that the best way to right action, especially in battles and combat, is fast. Use short sentances... this isn't the time you want to be descriptive because ...
Although it only has speculative fiction, The Internet Speculative Fiction Database could help. It's a start, and it's powerful enough to do exactly what you want (plus it can be downloaded and que...
This seems to be asking within the context of either a software medium or some instructional material referring to said software, so I'm answering from that perspective. In these cases, it's helpf...
