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Edit Post #10097 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Edit Post #7886 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: What are the pros and cons of starting a novel with internal dialogue?
I've read several stories where this sort of technique is employed. The most memorable had something to do with the character pondering their own death, and the rest of the story consisted of the events leading up to it. It started with something like > I hadn't expected to die so young. I admit th...
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about 10 years ago
Question Avoid blending Fantasy and Sci Fi
In the world I'm writing, there's a decent amount of magic - mages, spells, healing, etc. There's also a few aspects - hoverboards, strength/speed enhancing experiments - that don't quite fit into the realm of magic, but I'm not ready to commit to basing them in science. For one thing, that would mea...
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almost 11 years ago