Posts by Erk
In my experience it goes both ways. Either you start with an outline and write chapters and scenes from it, or once you've written your first draft "by the seat of your pants" you might end up cre...
Treat advice as a smorgasbord. Pick what works and leave the rest. Make sure you test the advice you get. That way you will know if it works or not. It may sound great in your head, but it's what ...
I'm not at all sure what you mean with "a perverse pit of debauchery". Apocalyptic Mad Max/Dark Angel, or what a school teacher from 1850 would say about the sexual habits of millennials–or pretty ...
You basically have two options: Write the first draft, edit, edit, edit Outline, write the first draft, edit, edit, edit (but possibly a bit less editing than in 1). And, as Lauren Ipsum alread...
You have this problem a few paragraphs into the first chapter. Don't stop and think now! Accept that you'll get into the rhythm after a few more paragraphs and that you may even produce a couple ...
Try it as dialog... and then you'll also realize the situation could be seen as very prejudiced (code smell?) Let me show you: Groff: I'm leaving before those Grobschookas get here. Doff: ...
Voice Making the character tell something in their own voice is generally called a "Voice Journal" or "Voice Journaling" From your question, I understand you don't necessarily mean to use what yo...
You need to be precise, clear and uncomplicated. When writing fiction, you want your text to have all the depths and layers you can add to it without forcing your reader to stop and think too much...
Apart from Campbell's "The Hero's Journey", another source of archetypal knowledge is folktales. You could take a look at the work of Vladimir Propp and his analysis of Russian folktales. Both Cam...
I understand you have short and long chapters. How about splitting the longer ones into several smaller chapters? The only rules I can come up with for chapters are: The reader uses them as a "...
There must be logic I believe it is important to always let the readers understand the logic of your character's actions. Even if the character is super evil, his motivation should be one the rea...
First Drafts, Writing and Rewriting This is your first draft, right? Your process could be that you produce a lot of dialog. You can fix that when you edit the text. To quote Hemingway (or Arno...
Writing isn't really about showing what character's feel. It's about making the reader feel. You could even have a cold-hearted unfeeling robot (Terminator?), as long as that character makes your ...
