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Begin with showing. That should be your default mode. It is better to write a "show" and delete it to replace it with a "tell", than vice versa. Telling is a kind of shorthand, a fact that has to b...
There is nothing wrong with repeating stuff in a novel Your characters may very well have forgotten, or almost forgotten, about this character if enough happened in-between and his role was not to...
I would not repeat the description in any precise manner, but the same kind of quick thought summary a normal character might have, after whatever length of time has passed. Just enough thread to r...
Great characters need not be perfect, but they will definitively strive to achieve perfection. If a reader is caught in the detail of all the meat and eggs that your characters eat, rather than dra...
Since Questions/Comments covers every possible response, perhaps "Please feel free to respond." Or "I welcome any feedback."
Diversity is not, and should not be, a box-ticking exercise. If you're inserting minority characters just for the sake of having them there, you're doing it wrong. To address your specific questio...
A significant scene in the novel occurs after ... Or A significant scene in the novel takes place after ... Or A significant scene in the novel follows [the previous reference acti...
I think this depends on your intended audience; if it is almost entirely Irish familiar with the dialect, leave it. It sounds authentic to them, and is not jarring. Even if it is just that story; w...
Dialect used in dialogue can work well, especially when the writer is fluent. (Writers who aren't fluent in the dialect they're trying to use can make a mess of it.) Dialect is another aspect of ...
No, there is no limit, other than how fast she can type. To get published, she would need a parent or guardian to sign publishing contracts on her behalf.
No matter how hard you try to make sure that there is only one possible interpretation of your story, people will interpret it in different ways according to their experience, ideology, and circums...
There is a joke that we always told each other in my school when we had to analyze texts or poetry that goes something like this: Teacher: What did the author mean when he said that the curtai...
World Anvil https://www.worldanvil.com/about I like using this website for world building/story creation because there is so much available and it can all be interconnected. Though you can't see...
how should I start the story? This is obviously a matter of opinion, the story I would write may be far different than the story you want to write. So this is basically how I would start such a st...
Well, not specific to the scene-sequel model (for which I would harbour deep suspicion) but in literary terms I would say as disaster is an irreparable loss. A loss you can recover from, from which...
You do (often) have a fourth option: rephrase the problematic sentence to avoid gender-marked words. For example, instead of translating "How are you?" literally into a language like Hebrew that h...
There is also physical setting, social setting, philosophy setting, (together perhaps world building) and character building scenes. This scene is a beat, a pause in the action, that is needed, an...
You can indeed distil a story only to the scenes essential to plot progression. This is the trend of modern-day literature, perhaps influenced by the way movies are made. However, one of the differ...
There are no clear-cut distinctions. Children are different. One child might be reading at 6 what another wouldn't touch until 12. For example, King Matt the First is explicitly written for childre...
The theory is bollocks. Here's why: the reader does not need any of it. A story is an entertainment. The reader needs food and water and oxygen and shelter and love. They don't need your novel. R...
I gave your question some thought, and I figure the best source of inspiration for you would be an encyclopaedia. Let me explain: your regular characters can travel to distant lands where they'd en...
Pushing off from Alexander's answer, when something "strange" happens in a book I am reading, and I notice it, (sometimes a bit of strangeness can be a subtle hint that I'd only see upon rereading)...
I'd never write scared (of either variety). I might write something challenging, but not scared. I would include in the "not scared" category, being unafraid to rewrite, unafraid to cut large pas...
Your character is a warrior. That lends itself to many positive qualities you can show: loyalty, courage, professionalism, camaraderie. There's a reason we have so many stories about warriors: thes...
Theoretical concepts are always difficult to understand without examples. Plus, the examples can provide evidence of the soundness of the concepts and generally increase the reader's confidence bot...
