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Dec 8, 2025: +1

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What kind of writing style works for a game?
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Apr 30, 2020: +59

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How do I know when and if a character requires a backstory?
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Storyboarding Approaches for the Non-Artistic
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Has anyone ever written a novel or short story composed of only dialogue?
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How do I write a compelling villain-all-along twist?
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What's a moment that's more impactful on a reread called?
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How can one write good dialogue in a story without sounding wooden?
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What's it called when the bad guy gets eaten?
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What tool will help me track sentences and paragraphs in resumes and cover letters so I can use this database to tailor new ones?
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How do I tell the reader that my character is autistic in Fantasy?
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I have a dialogue that I can't write directly. What would be a good alternative?
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Are there any established rules for splitting books into parts, chapters, sections etc?
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Writing a story about a immortal character
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Should I write my book in first person's POV or third person's POV?
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How should a big universe be introduced without being boring?
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How to avoid mentioning the name of a character?
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When should a supporting character be scrapped?
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How can I avoid a predictable plot?
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What kind of writing style works for a game?
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Changing perspectives
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Is it okay to use a lot of exclamation marks?
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Name of the technique where you show a tense scene in the beginning and then transitioning to a peaceful first chapter
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How can I indicate that a particular relationship between two male characters is purely brotherly (Philia) rather than romantic (Eros)?
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How does an author write in hand gestures and non-verbal communication?
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How do you decide the voice of your narrative?
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Misdirection for suspense/plot twists - what's acceptable and what's dishonest?
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How do I design characters for an open-ended series?
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organising complex networks
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Which should come first, building my story or building my world?
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How much time do you find you have to commit to daily writing to see results?
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Futuristic world with old technology?
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What if a concept on my story differs greatly from the common trope?
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'The Chosen One' paradox
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Are there narrative structures other than Kishōtenketsu and the three act structure and its derivatives?
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How do I add tension to a story, when the reader knows the MC survives?
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Anticlimactic ending as a surprise after climax?
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How can I establish my story's setting in the first chapter?
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Publication: What to do about a high wordcount debut novel?
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Will it be disappointing for the reader to not know who the main character is until the end?
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What techniques do you use to maintain your writing focus and maximise your productivity?
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Topic-based authoring vs. Modular authoring
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Is telling one of three convergent plot-line before moving to the next an acceptable alternative to interleaving them?
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Can a mystery novel have more than one mystery in it? And does it have to be a "who dunnit" concept?
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How many characters are too many?
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Is an unresolved conflict a detriment to publishing a novel?
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How much agency should main characters have in the plot?
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How graphic should a grimdark fantasy setting be?
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Writing a poem in secondary language that has rules for primary language
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What is the stereotypical structure of a crime narrative?
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First Chapters protocol
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How to make a repeating plot "slice" not annoying
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Finding My Own Voice
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Concentration whilst Writing
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How should I introduce multiple characters without it being repetitive?
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"The more fleshed out the character is, the more the reader will care about him". Always true?
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Finding a thematic setting
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Creating a fictional place within an actual city?
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Is writing in fragments bad practice?
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Is it possible to work with characters that you dislike?
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How to deal with common Earth references in a non-Earth setting?
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Dec 28, 2019: +1

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Are there advantages in writing by hand over typing out a story?
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Dec 17, 2019: +2

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How do you show, through your narration, a hard and uncaring world?
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