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Write something that captures the imagination, from page 1. First, +1 to DPT answers, those are practical. This is like asking "How do I write a #1 book". There is a lot of advice out there on wr...
Such speeches are an emotionally cathartic release for the character making them, therefore the rule is they are generally in the order of what is irritating them most about the person that sucks. ...
No, you can't skip it, but Yes, you can start the first act in full motion. What you are describing is not "skipping the first act". It is impossible to skip the first act because it really isn't ...
Get your story straight! My goal is to introduce the reader to a ‘wonderful’ fantasy world with an underdog main character full of panache… How does a wonderful fantasy world produce an under...
Yes you can. In fact, people do so all the time. I am Canadian. I have published one book with a European publisher, one with an American publisher, and have another coming out from an American pub...
The reader needs to be able to see the scene in their mind's eye. This does not mean that every reader needs to see it the same way. In fact, it is a virtual certainty that each reader will see it ...
You have to write it, completely, and 100% correctly. Further, you will not get anybody else to write it for you (unless you can pay them thousands of dollars). If they do the writing, you will ge...
+1 Mark, delete it. Make sure you have a backup of your manuscript for the day, you won't lose it. Then delete it and try something else. Psychologically speaking, a major problem for writers is o...
The first principle of highlighting anything in any work of art is contrast. If you want a white dot to stand out, you put it on a black wall. If you want a high note to stand out, contrast it with...
This depends on which aspects of the war you want to look at. For your example with the child and the family in general it might be better to take the already explained path: explore the implicatio...
You use the past tense to report past things and the present tense to report present tense. Death turns a number of present facts about a person into past facts. "John is Chair of the Board" beco...
Although the past tense makes sense due to your sentence construction, a different construction would allow the present tense, by setting a time frame: When Riley and Anna meet, Anna is a beaut...
The general format for a reference citation in Harvard style is: Last name, First Initial. (Year published). Title. City: Publisher, Page(s). For a web site, this guide gives the following fo...
First and foremost, it an an analytic category. This means it is a category that is used to do literary analysis of existing texts to group different texts according to common features. There are a...
I looked it up on this site: owl.english.purdue.edu (emphasis mine) Long quotations For quotations that are more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse, place quotations in a fre...
A useful way to think about this is to recognize that all stories are experiences, not propositions. A philosophy is a proposition, so it is not the matter of stories. But living with the consequ...
You need to make a very clear distinction between imaginary history and story. It seems to be quite common for aspiring writers to construct elaborate imaginary histories and then struggle to write...
I had the same dilemma recently with one of my older stories (i.e. 6-7 years old), which is in need of redrafting. One of the supporting characters, a black woman, dies halfway through; this is a p...
The first thing I think of is that this constrains your Point of View [POV] as an author. To be satisfying to the reader, the author must not lie to them. Thus you cannot write from an omniscient p...
Apparently the following section requires emphasis! :-) I do not endorse this solution, I do not USE this solution, I am a semi-retired professor in computer science that is aware of this product,...
Well, you are going to have to start asking yourself questions and provide answers. Why do men exist? In your premise there is absolutely zero role for a male, and if God created women in her own ...
Yes, you can use Artemis; it is from Greek mythology and impossible to copyright as a name. The Greek for the male versions of this name are Artemas and Artemus, both are listed in The Character Na...
I don't know of Artemis in ancient greek being used as a male name, but, for what it's worth, in modern greek Άρτεμις is the female name (same name as the godess) but there exists a male version to...
I would number the first section of references with lowercase Roman numbers; i,ii,iii,iv. I did not realize "NOTES" meant My notes, so if I saw four blank pages titled NOTES I would suspect a prob...
An easy way to get names is to first define a few characteristics about the person you want to name. Are they: humble? fast? strong? reliable? tall? tiny? beautiful? Then enter these words into...
