Rasdashan‭

You wish to maintain the brevity of the names, so I would suggest inserting silent consonants at the end of some, changing Ara to Aragh or Arah to differentiate it visually from the other names. ...

posted 7y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

While not mutually exclusive, the goals of my co protagonists do conflict and I need to keep them balanced. MC1 works for the CIA and is being burned. He needs help from someone so he can find out...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mark Baker‭

See your villain as a fully fleshed person who, while harsh and cruel for reasons of his own and having a dark past, is human. Dark doesn’t mean solitary. I was talking to a cousin of mine about ...

posted 7y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Antagonists are not necessarily bad guys. They prevent your protagonist from achieving her goals. Free yourself of the labels and write your characters true to themselves. What you seem to have i...

posted 7y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

By not making her a victim. One friend I had lived most of her life in a wheelchair, had no motor control and would punch and kick her caregiver until her hands and feet were bound to the chair. P...

posted 7y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

My main character gets shot and survives. One thing that bothers me is a character who is injured and keeps going like the energizer bunny. I try to set up for a rapid recovery, mentioning traini...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Mention it as the reason he cannot speak and then touch lightly on it. If cancer in remission means an altered diet, include that. I have a cousin who must get more sleep to help keep cancer at bay...

posted 8y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Alternative history can allude to history and make the reader think ‘this sounds a bit like the Great War’ but the names of the countries have been changed. That is fine, but you need not do that. ...

posted 8y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

My favourite definition or description of poetry is concentrated prose. Speaking only of verse, it uses fewer words to communicate its ideas than prose would use. The Moving Finger writes and...

posted 7y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I construe the court you refer to as a royal court with nobles of various ranks creating a veritable swirl of intrigue. Politics in a court setting is nothing less than lethal, the stakes are high ...

posted 8y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

It can work. It sounds like you want to avoid the ‘meanwhile back at the ranch’ problem. We are all different, but I would this handle by staying with the captive as long as possible, but while s...

posted 8y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Both of your characters will have problems that should be intriguing. He will be an unknown man in an area where travel is unusual except for the wealthy. Strangers can be viewed with suspicion or ...

posted 8y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Perhaps your MC is really a secondary character. I was writing a novel and had it all planned out, then met the real MC on page 180 (long hand manuscript on legal) and rewrote the book with a diffe...

posted 8y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

My MC is focused on his profession; barely giving his personal life a thought. His last serious romantic relationship with a woman was when he was 22. Time for that later, he believes. Retire at 45...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

If you go back a bit further you will find the controversial story of the tennis player and doctor Renee Richards. One aspect that made her attempt to play in the Women’s Open controversial was the...

posted 8y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭