Posts by Lew
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 ca...
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 woul...
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: sh...
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 agai...
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, t...
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 ye...
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 narratio...
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 i...
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...
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 pla...
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 wil...
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, whe...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 s...
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 reade...
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 alr...
