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How to make characters more than the words on the page? At the time of writing this question there are 5337 Harry Potter questions on SciFi and a further 165 on Movies. Many of these questions drill right into the character's motivations and emotions such as Why would Snape set his office password to 'Dumbledore'?, Why did the Minister of Magic execute Du... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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In a business novel can characters read real books? I’m considering writing a piece of business fiction to discuss some agile and testing principles. Given the wide number of books in this area it seems most appropriate to have characters discover the answers to their troubles through their reading. I’d much rather do this than suggest the answers po... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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What should my redraft phase entail? I've been reading Stephen King's On Writing and he's got quite a lot to say about the redraft phase. He explains his working method. 1. Write with the door closed, just for him and create a 1st draft as quickly as possible 2. Put the book in a drawer and don't look at it for 6-12 weeks, work on some... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Where do I start? Let’s say I’ve created an outline, have explored my characters properly, and have properly broken down each scene to an appropriate level of detail. I know the story, I know the pacing, and I know where I’m gonna got add conflict and emotion. I’m ready to put pen to page. Where should I start writi... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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A: Dealing with inability to sustain interest in an idea TL;DR Writing a complex story can be a lengthy project, use a project management technique—such as Scrum)—to give yourself a fighting chance! The Specifics Writing a book (or even a reasonable length story) is a sizeable project, it'll take time and a lot of effort to do. Luckily the modern world ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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How can I structure a novel to contain short stories? I'm planning a novel where the protagonist is an author and regularly writes short stories and shares them with other characters. I see this as a great opportunity to break out of the narrative and explore his character a little (the stories could be a metaphor different characters or could foreshad... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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Am I correctly punctuating this pause? I want to convey the pause between the "then" and the rest of the sentence. But I'm not sure a comma is the correct punctuation to use. > Then, when the smoke had cleared Jane Or is an ellipsis better? I tend to reserve it for when someone trails off or is interupted in the middle of speech. > The... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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What is the correct casing for a character's title? I'm currently writing some fiction about a lord and I'm struggling with when I should capitalise his title. There are a number of circumstances. When someone is referring to him or about him using his title: > "Of course my lord." When the title is used as part of his name: > "Welcome Lord Smith... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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How could a criminal forget a crime? I'm toying with a scenario however it's crucial to the plot that the murder doesn't know they're guilty and has to work with their friends to try and solve the murder. This is probably set in the real world, maybe historical possibly fantasy but I'd rather keep this element as real world as possible... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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How do you write a character's internal monologue? I've seen two main methods of writing a character's inner monologue One is to use italics Dean is being silly thought Sam Another is to quote the text "Dean is being silly" thought Sam Or you could avoid it altogether and simply relate what the character thought Sam thought Dean was being si... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |