Posts by Chronocidal
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...
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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...
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(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...
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