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As far as I'm concerned, story comes first. That's just because you can almost do endless worldbuilding (worldbuilding.se has countless examples of all the aspects you can consider while doing so...
For me (and for the people who answered before me, I see,) story and worldbuilding go together, with the story in the driver's seat. Let me give you an example: Suppose I'm writing a military sc...
It is not terrible practice to write some parts sloppily, if you later come back and edit them. I am familiar with the desire to get to certain scenes, and yet I need at least the general shape of ...
If I understand you correctly, on the one hand you want your hero to willingly go through with a selfless sacrifice, wiping himself out of time so he never existed in the first place (or something ...
A superhero team is first of all a team. You might therefore find the question How to write a story about a team? useful. With that in hand, you must also determine whether your team are all super...
Well, kind of a wide question, but you already got the hang of it: the entire worldview, it changes from character to character The whole point is having a clear idea of who your character are. A...
Since you're telling the story in first person, you can say outright that the conversation is not in the language of the narration. Something like: I understood StrangeLandian, but I spoke it b...
How do I make it clear that my character is narrating the story in a different language from the one she speaks? You already have the answer. Of course, it's well and good that you say it outright...
It IS a bad thing to do, and possibly a violation of copyright you can be sued for if you make a profit from it. I am not a lawyer, but I have dealt with copyright issues in my profession. Dismis...
If you succeed in eliciting strong emotions in your readers, you've done good. If you make your readers cry, bite their nails to the quick, put the book down in fear only to pick it up five minutes...
Being inspired is a thing; copying entire jokes or catch-phrases may be overdoing it, and rightly be called stealing. I agree with @Chris Sunami that it would already seem that your on the safe s...
To answer your question, first you would need to answer for yourself the following: The anthropo-weasels - do they view themselves as the same kind of creature as, say, anthropo-lions? Can anthro...
An idea is an image. Consider, for example: The fraternity of critics, in reality a dark brethren, linked by profane rites and blood vows. To destroy an author they sacrifice a child and perfor...
I would continue to use PS. Leave your diary as written, and if you add something, the PS tells you that you added it, after some thought, and if it were me that is worth knowing too: PS the ne...
Greed can be an inciting event. People go looking for treasure, to escape poverty. Knowledge can be an inciting event. Suppose the MC knows she and her village are powerless to confront an evil ov...
It is not bad structure, it is in fact common advice: Try & Fail, Try & Fail, Try &Succeed. It is common advice to writers because many stories have succeeded using this formula. Look ...
The answer to your questions depends entirely on how you characterise the girl's friends. Are they prudish snobs? Then yes, they would shun her. Otherwise, no reason why they should. If they disagr...
I think you are making a mistake in justifying this woman's promiscuity by her consumption of alcohol, and making a mistake by assuming her promiscuity is a result of lack of control on her part, i...
I'd say yes. That first idea is a "Hope Spot", where the audience is led to believe things might work out after all, only for them not to. It's a fairly common technique (obligatory TV Tropes warni...
I'd just do it in exposition; not a lot of it. Modified in response to clarifying comment of OP There are two scenarios; based on your comment. Either the characters know they used to be humans, ...
I am a discovery writer. I recommend it highly. For me, I begin with a character. All my characters have something "special" about them, something they are good at, as well as a flaw, often someth...
The subject of your sentence can be something other than the MC when you're writing in first person. For example: My phone rang or Footsteps were coming down the alley behind me You don...
My answer for this is my answer to any question about portraying an illness or trauma: talk to people who are suffering from it. People with depression and/or suicidal ideation may not always be w...
IMO, pornography is realistic enough; seek out the "homemade" variety. I think you can tell if these are scripted or being "acted". Particularly if there is any hint of role playing; it isn't reali...
The core novels of the Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman started out as this - a D&D campaign. You might find it useful to take a look at their work. In some scenes of Drago...
