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Since you feel there's no reason for your world to have the same days of the week as our world (that's reasonable), why must your world have weeks at all? Why must the weeks be of X days? A month i...
+1 Matthew. Bottom line is a Mary-Sue is too lucky and too perfect, and that is not what you are writing. The problem with Mary-Sue is a lack of conflict and thus boredom with the character. Reade...
When in doubt, do what the masters did. Some examples: Raoden breathed a sigh of relief. "Whoever you are, I'm glad to see you. I was beginning to think everyone in here was either dying or in...
Yes. A series is a sequence of related works under the same title (individual works/books/episodes can have their own names). A TV or novel series can be chronological pieces of the same story (B...
Find yourself an audience. Here's a situation where it's impossible to guess based on your description. We have no way of knowing if your poem is a hot mess, a psychedelic journey, or an literary...
The short answer is, there is no such thing as too much diversity! Especially when authorship comes from the community being portrayed. So many times mainstream (i.e., white) writers/producers/pu...
I don't think your diversity is a problem, however, from a writing perspective, I DO think that any special quality of a character should have some impact on the plot or the character. So my answe...
The main issue is that you have created a stock villain without depth. You have given him a son in the hope to give him a voice, but there is nothing to voice because they are both just extreme ste...
One key difference between a friendship and love is the sense of longing. You can show a friendly relationship when the two characters are together, but it is in the moments of separation that you...
There is nothing wrong with having a person who is a member of a minority, and extremely annoying. 'Minority' can be sexual orientation, it can be disability, it can be religion or skin colour - wh...
Galastel covers much. The other way, if you are reluctant to create a cast of characters, is to give your character some prominent sympathetic and non-stereotypical trait; so the reader doesn't per...
This is a matter of opinion, it is done, but not by most. In my opinion, I recommend against it. First for all the reasons @SteveJessop has outlined; but just as important, I don't do it because t...
I think adding more text about an anonymous and irrelevant character would destroy any tension you may have built. You have some anonymous character, who is taken prisoner in the event that MC's pa...
I think you're fine. In a novel, mentioning a character is very much like showing a character. In the sense of how this character embeds himself in the reader's mind. Obviously, it matters how y...
A quote (called an epigraph) is added to the start of a book or a chapter when it adds an insight to the story. What kind of insight is up to you: it might be an additional understanding of events ...
I think in real life the vast majority of people that are depressed, or even suicidal, will not go to a doctor at all. I don't know what the situation in Britain may be, but here in the USA that w...
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...
