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Posts by Chronocidal‭

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Q&A How to write dialogue for someone who is intelligent but barely speaks the language?

The other answers here are all to do with making the character come across as intelligent in conversation. There is a flip-side to this, which probably bears mention: Non-verbal cues. Consider t...

posted 6y ago by Chronocidal‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How do I stop my characters falling in love?

Give him another love. Does he have a girlfriend back in Russia? A fiancée? A wife? In any case, this is one of the aspects of his life that he struggles with (will he ever see her again? Does...

posted 5y ago by Chronocidal‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to "Start as close to the end as possible", and why to do so?

(This originally started out as a comment on Glastel's answer, about a fourth explanation, but I decided to expand it into a full answer) Write part of the end of the book, at the start of the pro...

posted 5y ago by Chronocidal‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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