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It's an unhappy ending if good does not triumph over evil. Books and movies with unhappy endings are generally frowned upon, they tend to do poorly commercially. The successes amongst unhappy endi...
Yes! Change it! When I saw the title my first thought was, do whatever you want, as long as it works. Then I read the question...and...it doesn't work. It's very distracting. If you use it...
Identify your situation with the plight of other workers deserving of tips People don't tip because they think you need the money. They tip because they understand your employer is not paying you...
I think it is too convenient, and an implausible motivation. At least in my culture (USA) great uncles don't get any particular respect, heck I didn't have any particular respect for all of my own ...
Yes, the goal is to make them want to read the whole novel at a sitting. You may be tiring because you are reading analytically to find words to smith, and because you already know the story and h...
You won't be able to portray it in a less negative way, unless you try to really force your hand on the "good vs evil" theme, and even then you would raise eyebrows. You stated that those childre...
No one will reject your manuscript because of one or two typos. But, yes, it needs to be in correct English (or whatever language you're using) with very few mistakes. This applies to your cover ...
I'm adding my two cents to the answer of Rasdashan: It can be refreshing, but you have to do it well The main issue is that such a unexpected change has to be foreshadowed. If the story progresse...
Will reading it make people say, "Oh, a Star Wars rip-off", or "Harry Potter rip-off"? I don't think there is a test you can learn and apply, and plots are recycled all the time. There is a whole ...
asvarans, vaspahrs, sardars and ostandars. I struggled with this for a different reason, I didn't want to invoke medieval Europe titles either, because little else in my story was like that, I...
Have a lighter "B" plot. Yes, your main character is getting deeper and deeper into a dark place because of the struggle with the evil overlord -- and in the midst of it all she also finds herself...
Do consider why you're choosing to write a crying scene. What it means; how it develops; what you're hoping to get out of it. Because I think a fair bet is: the point isn't to observe, in minute d...
Whether a name pops into my head, or I am stuck for one, I use a book, "The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook". It gives a lot of names, their country of origin, and something brief about...
My answer is twofold: Ensure that the set-up to the crying is well-established: You want your reader to be able to understand why your character is crying, if you want the scene to be effective. ...
I understand that if you are quoting something that a character said, that you would do the usual (Author's Last name, Page number), but what if you're quoting a scene? I'd go with quoting the...
There is no problem at all with writing morally ambiguous characters, and it's surprisingly easy for readers to sympathise with them. Let us look at some examples: First, a modern example: A Song ...
If I understand the problem correctly, I think what you want to be doing is vary the subject of your sentences. Look at this example: John walked out of the office. He observed the sky turning...
A have long and unpopular theory about the evolution of acceptable story formats. If all human life originated in Africa and you believe the two tribes theory, then the rest is logical. The tribe m...
Study and compare christian dogma vs. actual history. In actual history, there is of course no "jesus succumbed to the devil's temptation" event, since these are mythological characters, but all th...
I think this would work great -- in a movie. But books are not movies. VR is a visual experience. It engages the sense of hearing and sound, and essentially turns everything else off. It is a world...
I am writing a book a about a normal girl investigating her friend's murder. I wanted to ask if it's possible that a normal person who is not a detective could actually solve a murder?
I'm proofreading a novel - the brief has instructed that I do not make any stylistic changes, and correct only the obvious errors that impede sense/clarity. There are several places where I feel a...
I put work into making up my own names for spells. However, I feel like they come across as childish when I read over my writing This was also my impression when re-reading Harry Potter. It really...
Basically, when dealing with non-fiction topics like business or security or Information Technology or any other factual topic, there is really only so many ways you can write the facts using the E...
Images, as I call them, are an important part of your prose. Now, let's look at examples of bad images: From Onision's (from now on, Onii-san) book, Reaper's Creek : Maybe that current lead h...
