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I write in third person limited, meaning my narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of only one character in the book (the hero). Everybody is still referred to as "he", "she", "they", etc, (never...
As long as the distinction is clear from the inner voice of each character this is perfectly fine. Every character needs to feel different by using different voices, because otherwise it feels like...
You're overthinking it too much. The Myers-Briggs can be nice (I have a friend who did - sorta - an extensive research on it) and surely its good to know your character so well that you can type th...
It's very important to show users what they should not do and even more important is to explain why they should not do this. Think of a kid: you tell it not to touch the hot surface. ... Guess w...
There is no real way to learn writing in a completely different style. The best way is to practice it and read as much as you can from author's whose style you feel is at the right level of maturit...
I can think of at least two detective shows - Without A Trace and Cold Case - that do this multiple times per episode, as part of their general structure. As long as it's made clear that it's a fla...
Experience it yourself This is one of the things that you should be able to experience yourself. Living the moment will give you so much more information than any book, video, picture, or other de...
This is perfectly normal. It would be weird if the narrator used "Mama" in your first example. "Jane's mother" might be acceptable, but just using "Aliana" is perfectly fine and clear. About you...
When you introduce something like this, it's good to ask yourself if it would be normal within the context of the world that your story is set in. In this case, would the other characters in your ...
That's normal and perfectly fine You might want to make other characters or the narrator remark about his accent if it's well-known. For example by adding a line like Ah, I take it you're from Tar...
Yes, it can and most likely will damage the credibility if you are aiming for a serious setting. "Boobplate armor" as you put it would be highly dangerous and useless. Using it will automatically...
If you don't have a middle and an end, you don't have a beginning. I don't mean that you have to work out all the details of the middle and the end before you begin, because you can work those out ...
Interesting question. Changing a character's name is definitely jarring to the reader (at least it has been to me). The best suggestion I've found to deal with that is to create tension about the n...
Take things that happen every time with regularity, and make them not happen, so you can remember the last time they did not happen. For example, consume things; I have a regular morning routine I...
A story is about one or more characters. These need not be human, and they need not necessarily even be living beings (a story about an AI's struggle for equality could make an interesting sci-fi s...
What you need is inspiration - try throwing a coin The problem is that you only have the start - but not the end. Without knowing where you want to go it will be hard to flesh out the middle part ...
This does answer the OP's question: As I said in my answer, and added P.S. and P.P.S, and comments later, the only requirement is that something (significant) be original, which can include charact...
[Not a Lawyer, nobody's a lawyer here] Double, triple and quadruple down, make them Creative Commons. I don't think said person have copyrighted them, but if she did, that's already grounds for ex...
Clockpunk Most of the following comes from the article: Punkpunk: A Compendium of Literary Punk Genres First of all, appending "punk" at the end is often used to show that the main character or c...
I doubt the issue is whether the desires are stated explicitly or implied by actions. I suspect the issue has more to do with story shape. If we use the hero's journey model, and novel opens in the...
I do not think desires should be communicated directly in exposition, and only rarely in thoughts, but they can often be communicated somewhat directly through dialogue, especially dialogue with ne...
I wouldn't worry about it. If the scene cannot be shorter, then it is up to the director to break it up somehow, and that can include changing the camera angle, focusing on something else (stage bu...
+1 Fayth85. I have seen more than my fair share of the dead, including three of my own family members (in three separate incidents). The best you can say is if your character has some experience w...
First let me say that the notion that a dead face cannot be beautiful is nonsense. Some may never has seen a dead face they found beautiful, but many have, and I see no reason not to believe them. ...
Not necessarily, but the propensity to indulge in internal monologue is itself a character trait. Fundamentally, the way we assess the character of someone in fiction is the same a how we assess th...
