Posts by Chris Johns
Originality tends to be judged retrospectively, it is at the best of times debatable and most people would agree that it its not something you can manufacture on demand. Similarly it is entirely ...
One reason is to maintain suspense. A big part of the attraction of the detective genre is for the reader to try to work out for themselves what is happening with varying degrees of assistance from...
There is no clear rule sometimes detailed description does the job at other times you are better off evoking what you want with a few well chosen words. The first thing to note is that detail als...
It depends a lot what you are trying to achieve. Some things are very specific and you are going to need very specific research to convey them properly. Take drugs for example, different drugs ha...
That's absolutely fine. As other answers have said the concept of a fairly generic plot where the sub-stories are the real meat is very old indeed and can work very well. Especially with the rise...
It is generally not very effective to try an introduce big chunks of exposition, especially near the beginning of a story as it tends to be fairly dry information and gives the reader little incent...
