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I'm inclined to suggest that you go with what DPT posted as a comment. Start writing things down in some manner. If nothing else, record the facts, including the facts about your thoughts, feeling...
I would say, don't give it to them. There is a maxim in the writing world, that stories are not about facts, but the truth. What it means is that "what really happened" and "how I really reacted" ...
You don't have to do anything special at all. First you will seek an agent, with a query letter. Look up on the Internet or in writing books on Amazon how to write a query letter. Do not mention y...
If your main character is Caucasian, then she would call the new girl whatever the Asians have been calling them, concerning race. If your MC is NOT Caucasian, and doesn't know the word, then typi...
Just as a technical matter, a theme is not a message. Love is a theme. Love sucks is a message. When you say you want to get across a message in your writing, what you are saying is that you want...
To convey an underlying message, "X is better than Y", you need to present your "argument" in terms of scenes and characters and have the outcomes for these characters prove the point. For example...
Yes, you can start a chapter with a completely new character/time/setting - as long as you show your reader where and when the story currently is As always this depends on what you want to achieve...
I would just format what you did a bit differently, you can get the tempo you want in the reading by just adding more words. Don't be afraid of that, beginning writers often confuse "getting it out...
There is always the temptation these days for a writer to try to act out a scene as they imagine it playing on a movie screen. But this does not work in prose. It is impossible in prose to have two...
Legally there is no issue. It is your work. You own the copyright. You can licensed anyone you like to make copies no matter how many copies have already been made (subject, of course, to any right...
I think that there is a very strong case to be made that this distinction between marketing voice and tech comm voice should be avoided entirely. There are two main reasons for this: In ancient t...
Release notes should describe what changed as seen by the users. That doesn't necessarily mean "all the gory technical details", though; as with other technical writing, you want to tell the user ...
Your readers won't care about your age Sometimes an author will write a little autobiographic blurb that is printed at the end of the book. If you do this and you mention your age in there your re...
The only way I can think of solving this puzzle is if the protagonist was never really interested in foiling a plot in the first place, but gets their revenge, and from their point of view justice ...
+1 Alexander. I would add the following observation: The book is about the transformation a character is going through, what is commonly called an "arc" but is in essence a change. Sometimes a lite...
The most obvious, simplest and platform-independent way to achieve your request is to format the blog title entries as: YYYY-MM-DD : title Another alternative is to alter the publication date...
I think you need logic to support that claim, it is not the type of thing that can be studied. (Or you might find that kind of logic in academic philosophy.) The logic is, you find it self-evident...
My question is does this invalidate the previous events of the story and make them somehow inconsequential and do you think this is a good or bad twist overall? I offer a possible out below, b...
This does not really answer the question, but solves the dilemma in the interest of producing better writing. Reading earlier comments and your replies, you seem intent on an info dump and forcing...
On one project I worked on, we did reviews via a work- in-progress server, which was an HTML version of the current state of the docs. We created a modified build script for this server which inclu...
Turn the infodump into an investigation, revealing the owner of the space. I think one technique is to be NOT just looking. +1 DPT for lengthening to personal connections, so I will talk about see...
Look at The Stand (by Stephen King), Tolkien. Send your characters on a journey. I haven't read the above in decades, but they have many characters (far more than eight) and you can follow their p...
+1 Henry, those are possible problems. It is hard to diagnose, but you've told us the problem: The reader has stopped caring how the story turns out. Even if the ending is great. Which likely mea...
I would call them by their proper names. Normally in a story, you should describe the dress when it matters in the story, the pants or the collar get in the way of the character wearing this garb d...
Edit to clarify Apparently a lot of people in the comments were confused about what I meant, thinking you couldn't use any words at all to describe things, because words originated here on Earth. ...
