Posts by SC for reinstatement of Monica
I've bought a few books for young cousins that are collections of stories to be read around the year... or simply anthologies of stories under a certain theme (princesses, giants, whatever). Parent...
Since the character becomes possessed and it becomes impossible to follow his POV with a 1st person narrator, I'd suggest switching not to a different character, while maintaining the 1st person, b...
This site has a lot of question on how to write properly and, naturally, many of the answers are on how to do it well in English. Although, obviously, if you can write well in English, you can writ...
No, you don't. Just like you don't pluralise Arabic numerals.
Since English is not my first language, and I learnt all this terminology with completely different names, bear with me as I go over the terms. So you have started writing using the third person. ...
My high school teacher gave us some writing assignments that forced us to focus on short scenes. She would give us a picture (usually of a painting) where you could see one person, or more, halfwa...
For once, I'll say if both sound good and interesting, write both. Since you've already chosen one path, go with it. Then, when you finish it, if you're still excited about the other path, write i...
My novel technically has two inciting incidents: One in the first chapter, and another five chapters later. The later incident really kicks off the story. So... that makes me think that the fi...
I'd like to add a different perspective to this focus on plotlines and plot formulas. For that, I'd like to tackle the question the OP presented in the comments: I essentially mean to ask "What...
I was wondering if this edit-as-you-go method is a common way to write (from reading other questions and answers on here, it doesn't seem to be)? Is it definitely to be avoided, and why? I wri...
The phrase "force of nature" refers, properly speaking, to a natural phenomenon outside the control of human beings. The key idea here is can't be controlled because, typically, it's too strong. W...
I'm a language teacher in my native country and I do teach how to write essays. The structure is always the same: Introduction Development Conclusion Within the development, one should present...
The term 'unreliable narrator' refers to any narrator that, for whatever reason, presents the narrated events in a misleading way. It does not matter whether the true nature of the events is mis-...
@EFF_FireFly suggested goor resources but I'd like to add a few tidbits of my own, since I have written a psycopathic character. First of all, being a psycopath doesn't mean you have to enjoy crue...
I would suggest that first of all you divide your questions above in two groups: the ones about society and the ones about...well, the rest. You can start with either group of questions. Say you ...
Having in mind the OP's comment... By sheltered, I meant very sheltered. This owes to the fact the protagonist is next in line for the throne, but the rest of his family was murdered when he w...
NOTE: I've heavily rephrased the original question in a last attempt to clarify it. Background to the question While studying Portuguese literature in secondary school, one learns several rhetori...
I would like to try an answer that overlooks the contentious term 'subtext'. Regardless of its meaning (or meanings) in literary theory, the truth is most amateur writers (in the sense of writers w...
Generally speaking, English once used 'you' as the second person plural (equivalent to 'vous' and 'vós') and 'thou' as the second person singular (equivalent to 'tu'). When talking to a person in a...
I found this freeware app, labytrinth, years ago. It allowed to create elements (characters, places, objects, etc) and detail information about them. Then you could drag these elements into a wide ...
First of all, let's define laughable. Summarising from several dictionaries, one can say it refers to something that makes you laugh because: a) it's amusing (which seems to imply something pleasa...
I was intrigued about the question, so I surfed around and came up with the following notions: 1. Thriller: The villains control the plot: they create obstacles/problems that the protagonists m...
The question grammar for describing plots had a few comments that touched upon the differences between literary novels and entertainment novel which made me think. So I searched the SE for any prev...
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