Activity for Stig Hemmerâ€
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| Edit | Post #38564 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #38344 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #31862 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #29419 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #23799 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #18576 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: Writing about real people - not giving offence You either write a biography, as accurate as you can, as respectfully as you can, or you write a clearly fictional story that is as different from its inspiration as you can make it. Do not try to do this half way. That way lies pain and law suits. From your question, it seemed that you want to wri... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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A: Can I conceal an antihero's insanity - and should I? Does your story have a character who starts out as a loyal supporter of the protagonist, but later realizes what a monster she is, and then turns against her? If so, that character is an ideal narrator. The reader will follow the narrators point of view and gradually make the same realization with t... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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A: Creating an incompetent antagonist Guerrilla warfare The key to winning an rebellion is surprise. The rebels must appear out of nowhere, attack before the defenders can get organized and leave before reinforcements arrive. This is standard guerrilla tactics, and is very hard to defend against. Even otherwise competent empires can st... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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A: How to survive editing You have already identified the plot as your main problem. As long as the plot remains unfixed, you feel no motivation for fixing the rest. As you have discovered, you can NOT fix the plot just by staring at the text. The problem isn't confined to single sentences and paragraphs that can be fixed in... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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A: What information about a fictional world is unnecessary? (As @ChrisSunami said, the author should know more than the reader does. I am writing about what to include in the text) The question is reversed. The proper question is "What information about a fictional world is NECESSARY?" And the answer depends on the length of the piece. If you are writing s... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: How can I Switch Protagonists Between Books? The readers must not be surprised by it. The marketing for the second book must make it clear what is going on. If you just say "The long-awaited sequel to Book 1", people will buy Book 2, but feel cheated and will never buy Books 3 and 4. (And your other books outside this series) If you say "The ... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |