Posts by TMuffin
Three good examples of this I can think of, all with very different starting points, are Miss Marvel (a comic book series with a Muslim protagonist), Ready Player One (a book about 70s nerd nostalg...
Precision is not the opposite of simplicity or clarity. As you mentioned, Hemmingway is known for his amazing precision, for spending a long time on single sentences. I read The Old Man and The Se...
You really have two questions here. First, how do you write a story with no free will? Second, what would make someone choose to become a monster? For the first question, your character needs agen...
The same reason people in real life go by different names in different contexts. A doctor might go by Dr. Grey with her patients and subbourdinates, Dr. G to very young patients, Merridith to frie...
It's impossible to make sure your book is interpreted the way you want it to be. Some writers have actively disavowed particular audience interpretations of their works. In many cases the audience...
In How to write strong female characters, Standback says that the best way to write a strong female character is to make her uniquely female, the type of character that can not possibly be male and...
Characters (and people) get angry at all sorts of things that might not make sense to the outside observer: Marty McFly and the word "chicken," words that are terrible slurs to one population but t...
