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Edit Post #9311 Imported from external source about 11 years ago
Answer A: Good idea to describe the heist place before the heist begins?
Location, in a novel, is a protagonist. Protagonists act. If they are not taking part in an action, they don't appear in that section of text. If the location does not take a meaningful part in the action, it must not appear in the text. Example with person: Your novel is about John and Hannah. In ...
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Answer A: Using capital letters for shouting
There are different styles of emphasis: underlining, spacing, italics, bold face, all caps and small caps, change of font face, color etc. Some of them can be found in printed magazines, others have been in use in the past, yet others are common on the internet or in typewritten manuscripts. The que...
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Question How explicit can violence and sex be in a YA novel?
Many of the most popular YA novels are pretty brutal, rape and murder are a common ingredient. Many show teenagers having sex. But how far can you go, before you cross the line into adult fiction, simply by being too detailed or too extreme? I'm writing a novel about a young woman who gets drawn int...
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Answer A: Can I plug a loophole in my magic rules without rewriting the whole novel?
The intriguing thing about magic is that you can imagine being able to do things that you cannot do in real life. But characters that can do anything are exceedingly boring. What drives a plot for me is the limitation that the character has to work under. The story of an all-powerful god would be bo...
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Answer A: Do romances need to have a happy ending?
I am German. You will soon understand why I state this up front. In German cultural theory a difference is made between so called 'serious' literature, music, painting and so on, and 'entertaining' literature, music etc. 'Serious' works are 'art'; 'entertaining' literature is called 'trivial literatu...
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Answer A: Elmore Leonard said Avoid Prologues... Why?
I don't know about your prologue, but as a reader I seriously despise prologues that don't feature the protagonists, for two reasons: I read novels, because I am interested what happens to the protagnonists that I identify with and care about. When I alread know what and who the novel is about, I do...
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