Posts by Philipp
A good recipe for a tragedy is a character constellation where you have multiple good people who only have the best intentions but they still end up working against each other. Everyone has a plan...
I would recommend you to describe the hair of that character as "white" or "grey". Maybe "silver" when you want to be a bit more lyrical, but that's the furthest I would go into detail about the ha...
First of all: it's your choice how far you want to go into detail. When two characters having sex is a plot point in a story which is not supposed to be erotic or not even romantic, a detailed de...
Don't! Nintendo has a history of using legal actions to shut down fan projects. When they come after you, it will be a civil lawsuit, not a criminal one. That means you need to pay the expenses f...
The difference between funny and offensive is execution. People are offended by comedy when the comedy is so bad that you can not tell if it's comedy or just being plain mean. The best example I ...
What makes anti-heroes interesting characters to read about? To find that out, let's compare the morally flawed anti-hero with the cliché of the perfectly virtuous hero. They do things the audie...
Is the exact address really relevant for the story? Choosing a real location has several disadvantages: It could lead to harassment for whoever really lives there now or in the future It limits ...
When you are trying to flesh out the personality of a character, then a good technique is to write a "character interview". A character interview means that you are asking your character a couple o...
Novels are not a visual medium. Your readers never actually see your characters. So unless the racial background of your characters is relevant for your story, you can easily get away with never ...
There is a whole genre of fiction which explore what would have happened if certain historic events turned out differently: Alternative History. If you market your work as part of this genre, then ...
If you want to be really famous you only have to click here. "you only have to click here" - you can remove that. Your audience knows how the internet works. They know that in order to receiv...
As an author, you have a couple of superpowers which you can bestow upon your characters: Super perception. You know every detail in your story, including those a normal person wouldn't even noti...
