Posts by Stephen
Having your character calling the man raising her father isn't a problem. She knows he's not her biological dad but as far as she is concerned, he is her father and will call him as such. Where y...
I have the opposite problem. I can write in third person fine and much prefer this but struggle with first person. My solution? Practise. To give you an example, I wrote a story of two women ha...
Always work around your characters. They're what drives the story forward, not your plot. Without interesting characters, you've just got a series of events happening one after the other which wo...
The best advice I can give is that your readers won't care about what happens to your characters if you don't. You have to want them to succeed when you write their story or it will come off as ge...
I doubt there are any hard rules to this though I would guess it his divided into members of the writing team with a whole story overview as well. Using The Last of Us as an example, there is a wh...
It's never bad to go with the flow. In fact, there's a word for people who write like that. Pantsers. Those who write by flying by the seat of their pants. Writing an outline makes you more of ...
