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Posts by BittermanAndy‭

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Q&A Can Extensive Outlining Take the Place of the First Draft?

Your readers will only read the "final" draft. They will neither know nor care whether the finished version that they have in their hands is the first draft, or the fiftieth. That being the case, t...

posted 6y ago by BittermanAndy‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Classic fantasy races lazy or boring?

In my opinion it depends very much on what your story is trying to achieve. The established fantasy races exist in hundreds, even thousands of other books. Are readers bored of that and itching fo...

posted 6y ago by BittermanAndy‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How can I avoid a predictable plot?

The kind of terms in which I'd phrase what you're asking (and which you may find in searches elsewhere) is that: the story's climax must resolve the problem which was established in the inciting in...

posted 5y ago by BittermanAndy‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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