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Double U‭

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Q&A Is it required to cite the original author, when the original author is unknown and in a foreign language and adapted by an oral narrator?

Here's the scenario. Person A may read a story in a non-English language. As time passes, he still remembers the story and passes it onto his offspring. His children ask him about the author, but t...

0 answers · posted 11y ago by Double U‭ · last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A To what extent can a first person narrative tell someone else's story?

There are some questions that you should consider before you write your piece. Why is this person telling this story? Is this narrator reliable? Will this narrator tell the whole truth objective...

posted 6y ago by Double U‭ · last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A The advantages and disadvantages of Fantasy-time

Wikipedia's Definition of High Fantasty Genre: High fantasy is defined as fantasy set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world, rather than "the real", or "primary" world. The secon...

posted 6y ago by Double U‭ · last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How much agency should main characters have in the plot?

Whoever is telling the story should have the most agency. If Character A is the narrator, then everything should be written in terms of Character A's point of view. After all, people can't read min...

posted 6y ago by Double U‭ · last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to describe a mythological creature that English has no vocabulary for?

The term is 妖精, which can be translated into English as "fairy", "elf", "goblin". As noted, the Japanese literature uses 妖精 to describe the European fairy. The English translation of 白骨精 in 西游记 (Jo...

2 answers · posted 6y ago by Double U‭ · last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to indicate that the source language is gender-neutral?

The source language in question is Standard Chinese. It is a gender-neutral language. One big thing that English speakers complain about English is the gendered pronoun, namely the third person sin...

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Q&A How do I handle different PoVs, at different times and places, each dealing with the same event?

In the Babysitter's Club series by Ann M Martin, there is a special collection of books. This special collection of books may have all the characters in the babysitter's club go on trip to somewher...

posted 6y ago by Double U‭ · last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How much description is too much?

Description is too much, when the author wants to explain the scene as if it were a movie instead of a piece of writing. In a movie, the objects in the background are all part of the scene. The sto...

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Q&A An LGBT main character, but the book isn't about LGBT issues

On top of all the above answers, I would like to add that self-identity is not the same as sexual orientation. A person may lean towards some kind of biological orientation, but the self-identity v...

posted 6y ago by Double U‭ · last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to describe skin colour, if "white" is not the point of reference?

The white/black/yellow/red race classification system is based on the Western race classification system. Wikipedia is not the best resource and definitely not the most reliable, but sometimes, you...

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Q&A How do you get out of your own psychology to write characters?

Personally, if I want to make a super-realistic human-like character, then I would just write a story based on reality. That is, I would look at my own personal life, study the people in my life, a...

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Q&A Naming things the POV character doesn't know

Describe the scene from a person's point of view. You say this: these characters travel back in time and across the world If I were to travel back in time and across the world, then I woul...

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Q&A When a story is longer than a book, is it best to wait until the entire story is done before completing the first book in the story?

Is it a good idea to self-publish a completed first book in what will be a longer series even though the remainder of the story has not yet been written? The publisher wants something marketable. ...

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Q&A I'm trying to figure out whether to discovery write or outline. How do I choose which is right for me?

Should I outline or discovery write my stories? If you go to YouTube and type in "plotting or pantsing", then you will find a ton of videos about this topic. Some people call it "discovery wri...

posted 5y ago by Double U‭ · last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to interpret a language from a non-speaker's perspective?

I want to create a believable conversation between a character who speaks Mandarin and English and a character who speaks English but does not speak Mandarin. Basically, the Mandarin speaker is sup...

1 answer · posted 6y ago by Double U‭ · last activity 5y ago by System‭

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