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My character is using a hardly legible accent, or simply an accent which is not comfortable for a reader to read. For example: “Ye've caught us in th' middle o' supper. Seein' as how yer no bleedi...
My answer will be simple but hard to execute Show to world around them. For example toilets would be "seaters" only (dunno name in english), no man toilets at all - It would all be just one door ...
In my latest short story I'm playing around with common gender misconceptions. It's set in a near future society were men have disappeared, and all roles are taken up by women. The theme is played ...
Once I heard someone said that there's no such thing as bad publicity. I think it could as well relate to your situation there: you have a great character to begin with and a vocal audience that "w...
Audiences want contradictory things. They want to fall in love with a character, and once they fall in love with them, they don't want anything bad to happen to the person they love. But, of course...
Over the years I gained small audience and I love them. My last work quite disappoint them in regard of one character and I feel bad about it. I felt like character's struggle she went through woul...
I am often inspired by Hawkeye from M.A.S.H. - if you do not know this character, it is a talented doctor drafted into the Korean War who overcame difficulties with humor. But from time to time he ...
Let me suggest that lightheartedness is not a character trait but a response to circumstance. Let me suggest that a lighthearted character is one who expects to get the things they desire, and that...
For some reason, when I find myself writing a male protagonist, I seem to default to the brooding, gritty kind of man that could easily find his place into a noir novel. Those characters are often ...
[status-not-a-bug-but-looks-like-one]? Rep scores have actually just been corrected - we found a couple of voting anomalies on Outdoors yesterday, so I corrected the votes and ran a rep recalc acro...
What happened to the rep scores? They jumped by a bunch.
Well, there is usually not a lot of inner dialogue in the middle of a sword fight. The slow part of the brain that mulls over stuff switches off and the fast part of the brain the tries to not get ...
I am using, for action scenes, this three act format which allows me to control pacing and create order in hectic environment: Action - analysis - reaction Johann fired (action) his pistol and mi...
This is a fun one. This is a bug, but it's also not something we can retroactively fix, so... [status-known-about], I guess? We discovered when we ran the import for the new stuff from Ebooks that ...
Strange import artifacts. I was looking at this post recently imported from books.se https://writing.codidact.com/questions/276013 It has several things as answers that are posts from writers.se.
The first thing would be the universal expectation and recommendation of it. If they saw as they were growing up that this is what people were praised, rewarded, and remembered for, and even more i...
Setting aside your specific case, which I'm not qualified to comment on, I'll address your general question of a 13-year-old opposing family and the broader society's ethics. I have no particular ...
For your industrial revolution era character, the whole of their upbringing, education, and training would be designed to develop a high sense of duty in them. It is only after the first world war ...
Well, first, the scenario you posit is a bit unusual. During the Industrial Revolution (on which I did my MA many moons ago) many of the men who made their money in trade and industry at some point...
This is a question related to my previous question about child's morality, but different criteria are applied. Criteria and Question: My desired kid would be born commoner but from merchant class, ...
I am very bad at writing children characters in my stories, I always make them either too "dumb" or too developed. Currently I am in need of believable child +- 13, boy or girl. Requirements: My de...
We gabbed about this today in writers' club. One problem with the exercise is you can fit many suppositions, any manner of supposition, to a piece of expression (a novel). (Rose colored glasses and...
"The tale how..." is wrong is because "tale" needs to be accompanied by a certain kind of preposition in that context. A "tale" is a story. A story is about some topic. The noun "story" (or "tale")...
How can I pinpoint a story's moral dilemma? In classic narrative structure, the first act, called "the setup," establishes the setting and characters. Then, it creates the problem. First, look for ...
I've imported everything on this list at the moment and edited your post to strike through the URLs. Feel free to keep adding to the list - I'll check back in a few days, or you can ping me when th...
