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I would say the fact that you choose a fascist dictatorship makes it cliché, it is too close to the Holocaust and reminiscent of Hitler exterminating the Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, etc. No matter ...
There are two elements to your question. The first is the similarity to an existing work. That question is answered here: Is my story too similar to an existing published work? The second is the s...
You have a realistic effect that follows from the situation that you've put your character in, but that effect isn't interesting, nor does it affect the story in any significant way. The solution i...
This is an addition to Cyn's crucial point that the center is the story and not the theme. [...] dehumanization of others through the oppression of mutated humans by a fascist dictatorship Wh...
A few suggestions. For starters, I'd put the deadline in the email subject as well (and keep it in the email body too), e.g. Monthly report summary - DEADLINE: 3 March 2018 I'd try to edi...
There are two issues being raised: How to plan character growth? There is nothing to plan. Growth happens under any circumstances (except perhaps coma, hibernation and the likes)! Your MC is ab...
It's okay to have a Blue Period. Picasso's lasted 4 years and was fueled by depression. He produced amazing paintings during this time and it was something he felt compelled to do. It's makin...
There is a certain social image of what being a woman "means" - there are expectations both of how a woman would act, and how a woman would be treated. A particular female character is bound to eng...
You can stop making it so obvious they are going to break up; and don't even make it obvious to the MC they already have broken up. The boyfriend can break, and move on to somebody else without tel...
The main character has to relinquish his old life. His boyfriend is just one part of that. What else is the MC giving up? His friends His family (they will stay his family but he can't see th...
I think it may be a good idea to first look generically to the possible types of conflict, to then look how well they fit to your definition of a purely erotic novel. I think the most important di...
(1) from the first desire to consummation or (2) from loveless sex to romantic love or (3) from a lack of sexual experience to sexual empowerment – what can cause conflict? I th...
I agree with bruglesco's answer about keeping the same word count. I'll add that it depends on the situation and on the given roleplay session. If it's a large group of people, your best bet is i...
+1 to DPT for the rhythm notes. Do long sentences have a defined emotional impact in fiction writing? Often it is just the opposite of building tension, it is the relief of tension. Long sent...
Setups are most rewarding when the reader realizes after the fact that that detail was important but doesn't figure it out too early (i.e. it's not more obvious than you wanted it to be). If a rea...
Do you think teenage girls are too stupid to know when they're being pandered to? Do you think publishers of young adult fiction would not notice that an author is not familiar with the genre and ...
As a frequent beta-reader, often for friends, I struggled with this question -- and I'm pretty happy with the answers I've figured out. Don't pronounce judgment; help the author level up It makes...
It depends on your real problem. Does it hurt for the guard to just know him? If it doesn't hurt for the guard to know the psychiatrist, then in third person omniscient, you can have the guard ref...
A most unwelcome answer 'Tis too late, said one. Not here, said another. Then silence, or rather Mystery not yet undone. There is an unspoken thought, an obvious sky-ridden star: absolute, ear...
It's a good idea to decide early on on a naming scheme. That is, do you want names that sound like they belong to a particular time and place? Particular times and places (plural) for various group...
The idea that inspired you has a Wikipedia page! Let me narrow down your question from (basically): Can I take another author's idea and base a book on it? to Can I use a well-known sett...
One more option is to write them as hypotheticals. "If I had known that..." If I had known what terrifying events were unfolding while I sat in the cafè! Twenty miles from Pittsburgh, on the o...
This is why you get an agent; she knows lots of publishers and knows how to pitch different genres to the same publisher. If she represented you for your first book and sold it, then she will alm...
I suggest you find, buy and read the book "Get a Literary Agent" by Chuck Sambuchino; (on Amazon or Barnes & Noble) it is a good start and also a good antidote to much online advice. If your qu...
I agree with Chris Sunami; ditch the prologue. If Andy is in the past and prevents some disaster, and the world is reset with him in it, I imagine he still retains all his memories of the prior wo...
