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A: What are the top most important key elements for a computer game story? Most stories in the genre start with an inception and end with an enlightenment. What exactly these entail depend on the story genre/setting you are working with. For example, I can take your space exploration: - The inception is something like the discovery of FTL travel. It means something about ... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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A: How do you write short-short nonfiction? Any piece this short has to assume a lot of knowledge from the reader. Therefore: write your piece like your would a conclusion to a longer piece, while leaving out any summarizing you may normally do. Restrict yourself to the core knowledge you want to impart without necessarily supporting it dire... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Magic is the twist It feels silly to say, but I've got myself into a bit of a bind of a side project. In a three-act structure (not what everyone uses, but a good reference point) you generally need to set up all expectations and major setting truths in the first act--preferably in the first half of the first act. At ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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How to not confuse readers with simultaneous events? In an omniscient third person, I have 8 (practically unrelated) events going simultaneously in different parts of a large mansion. I want to present these events as they happen, but I feel jumping around every two sentences is bound to cause confusion! Are there any prose or typographical tricks I c... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: I don't want to be introduced as a "Minority Novelist" There are two main ways around this: Hide your identity as an author or publish something else first. For the first, pseudonyms are your friend--and this is one of the only good reasons to have one. For the second... well, I'd say it is obvious enough? (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: How do I write a romance that doesn't look obvious Unfortunately, even if a character spots another, attractive character across a room and does not speak to them for the whole book; if they do not have similar encounters with others, the reader will assume they will get together. It's unfortunate, but for once the tropes work against you. The only ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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How to deal with moral/legal subjects in writing? More specifically, how can one write a novel that examines or even argues against cultural moral values and laws without... dealing with legal fallout as the author? I realize this may be asking to eat my cake and have it too, but I think it is always important to question the status quo. I am not i... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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How important is it for multiple POVs to run chronologically? The way I am currently designing a story with three distinct POVs. An issue I am running into, however, is that one of these has much more to do in the first third than the other two while having less to do later. Because of this, I am considering not running the POVs chronologically next to each ot... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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How to end a story without reaching a new status quo? A popular writing theory states that any story worth telling describes the movement from one status quo to another, and that major uncertainties in the inception and conclusion should be avoided. How does one break away from this mold, and could you provide educational examples of stories that have ... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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A: How to write and promote my film blog more effectively? As with the popularity of most websites your overall chance of succes boils down to 3 factors: Content, usability and network. Content Quite simply put, you need to produce content people not only want to absorb, but ideally interact with. Give users a space to react and form a community. That way... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Where are standard wordcounts for different types of fiction found? I've heard it said on here that 100,000 words is about right for a novel, 20,000 is about a novella and much too much for a short story... What are the sources for these numbers, are there more I am not aware of, and is there any current debate on the validity of them? (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: How could a paragon character be an antagonist? There is hardly ever a case of absolute morality. Two paragon characters who meet but are from very different cultural backgrounds could easily turn to be each others' nemeses exactly because of the disagreements following from the morals they hold in highest regard. For example, a honorable knight ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Do new writers stand a chance at a career without ambitions to write series? Simply put, I've been noticing a general truth in bookstores: Nearly every new book on the shelf is part of a series - this is doubly true in the Fantasy and Sci-Fi genres, but no less true in others. As a writer with no ambitions to write series and preferring to focus on one-shot works, does one s... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Resource for rejected novel manuscripts Is there such a thing as an online repository for rejected novel manuscripts? I think it would be a useful and educational resource -- especially to finally see examples of the so-called 'mistakes every failing writer makes' -- but I have yet to find whether such a repository even exists. (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |