Posts by JP Chapleau
It depends what you want "Taken from the headlines" is something that is both interesting and exciting. It allows your readers to visit a possible version of the future (and whether you got it rig...
What is throwing me off is your "Without action". Do you mean without having an action scene? Without the heroes fighting directly against the villains? Here are some random ideas. Tell of the ...
It may not matter (to you) There is one thing you must separate: What the story is about AND What a future movie/TV movie will make it. Don't worry about such details. The difference between the o...
First Hand Knowledge One main reason to read in the genre you want to write something - say young adults - is because you want to understand through direct knowledge what it is about that style th...
Well, is it dry? Have you passed your story through other test readers? They might provide you with the same - or different perspectives. Perhaps your narrative IS dry, unimaginative, boring and d...
It's not inherently bad It is a trap where too many things as resolved through inner monologue when it might make the story more dynamic. I suffer from that big time where the character thinks and...
Multiple smaller scenes You can have your main character play through a number of smaller scenes that present the repetitive nature of the routine. By breaking them up, you can introduce them one ...
POV, POV, POV The POV is important when doing that. Who says what? Who understands? What is the outcome? If the story is from one perspective, then the narrator would say something like The...
People Change One thing to remember is that celebrities (and all of us for that matter) change and age with time. So what a celebrity looks like "today" may not be what she looks "now". She wa...
