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A: How do I represent two computers having a conversation between themselves that other characters are unaware of? It is somewhat difficult to answer your question in its current form, but I shall give it a try. The motion picture medium leaves you with three ways of conveying information to the spectators: show the physical events as they are happening, tell the viewer about them, using one of the characters, o... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: What happens with changing POV Irregularly? Using a certain character's point of view to describe a particular event in your story is nothing more than a technique. > Q: Is this okay? Of course, it is. It had been done time and time again, and it will be done as many a time as there are stories to be told. Selection of the point of view to ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: How to work in a piece of information that no MC knows, when writing in 3PLtd? If you need to convey specific information to the reader without resorting to an omniscient info-dump while staying in a third person POV your choices are indeed limited (pun intended). Your MC can either discover that particular piece of information through their action (find what seems to be the M... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: Writing differently when following different character POVs - mainly age difference. (3rd Person) > Am I free to change my descriptive language when changing POVs? Absolutely (leaving aside the fact that you are free to do whatever you wish–it is your story), and I agree with Lauren Ipsum, that it might help you achieve the desired effect if emphasized properly (the text excerpts you have given ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: How to write a manipulative protagonist that the audience can connect with To add to an excellent (in my opinion) answer by @LaurenIpsum: There might be a case when your protagonist has to manipulate/blackmail an innocent person, who had done nothing to wrong her, and yet still be forgiven by the reader–when it is done for a greater good. First thing which comes to mind: ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: How to describe a kiss between the protagonists in third person? Apparently, your third person point of view is not omniscient, or you would not face this problem, and if you tried to describe your character's feeling simultaneously, having the previous narration written in third limited/objective, you would have to either switch to omniscient, or head-hop, which ... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: How to present details about the setting in a fantasy world without telling? I am not sure, how lower gravity would allow people live higher up a mountain (it is not gravity, it is a lack of oxygen which limits the habitability in that dimension, and the lower the gravity is, the less atmosphere the planet is able to detain, but I am not a physicist, and could be mistaken), b... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: Is alliteration distracting and not very valuable/interesting for the reader? The word choices you make have to work for your story. An alliteration is a tool, like a rhyme, and if you use it without a purpose, it will sound strange and unnatural, if not jarring. Why do you use them? To show off your eloquence? To set the tone of your prose? To illustrate personal quirks of a... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: Do Epic Fantasy and Sci-Fi books have inherently more descriptive language? > I agree with Standback, but his answer is not generally true. The meaning of the quote above escapes me. Besides, I happen actually to agree with Standback. The building of a unique world would add color to your story (which should, of course, come first, setting being secondary and all), even if ... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: Can you use third person limited in a story that begins before the MC is born? I would start the story in the third person "cinematic" (no head-dipping), and then switch to the third person limited after a scene or chapter break, just as you plan. Third person omniscient will work for the beginning, too, but is arguably harder to make sound natural than any other flavors of th... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: using double negatives and sentence structure > not infrequently is not a double negative, (ok, it might be) but it does convey an exact meaning, even in slightly convoluted way. > I don't have nothing is a textbook double negative, where one part of the statement cancels the other one, basically leading to the exact opposite meaning: "I have... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: Subplot with no established POV character present If you need to introduce a new character to move the story forward, do it. Picking the flavor of POV is secondary, you can be either objective or subjective, the choice is yours only, and only the time and your alpha readers will tell, if you were right. The only advice is—do not abandon that charact... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: Making People Unsure which Characters will Survive > What I'd like to ask, is about a method I can use as a rule of thumb, to get me started in the right direction, so I can begin to think about it more dynamically. As soon as you develop a rule of thumb method of grooming your characters for execution, your readers will see through it instantly. Gi... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: Chapters - Writing Order While feeling rather bad for @Ctouw, who admitted to struggle with managing out-of-order writing, I have to side with both @LaurenIpsum and @what. Yes, you have to try it for yourself, and yes it is practically possible (I have done it, and it worked for me). I, being a poster pantser, whose whole ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: How early in the narrative should I start my book? Somebody said once that the right question bears half of the answer within. Whether you have your story already written or not, it is clearly structured and well thought through. Your characters seemed to be defined and developed, and I have little doubt that your plot is solid. I think that your qu... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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A: How do I express that a culture has a different standard of beauty? > So if you want to create a culture in which overweight bodies are perceived as beautiful, you really don't have to be too subtle, because no matter how subtle or unsubtle you are, only the readers that share that ideal will be attracted by that book, while all others will find it uninteresting or i... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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A: Writer's Block: How to Stop World-building and Start Writing? I find combining words into sentences fun enough by itself to keep me going :) But, seriously, it sounds like you have a rich and interesting world developed, and that is a great accomplishment already. The question is whether you have a story, set in that world, because no world by itself can be use... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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A: Switching perspectives for a single chapter in a first person POV novel, to do or not to do? > I was planning to do this when I start with the other character's POV and somehow explain how she was able to see things from his eyes when she wakes up, but there is a problem with that plan. I see absolutely no problem with that. If your character's magic/superpower/special abilities allow her t... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |