Posts by EvilSnack
You should probably have a map for your own reference, so that your narration of travel times is consistent for the distances and modes of transportation. Once that is done, then whether you have ...
One of the earliest Web pages on clichés (in this case, from science fiction) contains a passage about their use: Clichés are not in themselves necessarily bad, but their overuse shows that the...
I'm currently re-writing a story that was originally a screen play as prose. Two parts of the screen play are montages, each depicting the development of a stage in the relationship between two of...
Putting elements of one genre into a work that is another genre is not going to confuse your readers. The real genre is what constitutes the internal conflict faced by the protagonist. For instan...
Possible ways include: One night she has a dream about him. It need not be erotic, or even romantic, just the two of them in the same situation. Some detail of his appearance, manner, speech, etc...
In narrative fiction, dreams are best used for two things: To tell the reader something about the character's state of mind. If you have some sort of higher power in the tale, to provide communic...
If your reason for making the character non-binary is so that non-binary readers will have someone to identify with, remember this: If readers could only identify with a characters who shares thei...
Getting your facts straight is one of the rules of literature. As with the other rules of literature, it is one thing to know the rule and know when to break it, but another thing to ignore the rul...
I am reminded of a recent question about C.S. Lewis' and E.B. White's use of vocabulary. The answer I gave there touches on this question as well. One feature of the English vocabulary is that on ...
You could give the nurse a face that is well within the feminine range of faces, but reminds the soldier of a man that he knows very well. At one of my assignments in the military there was a fema...
