Posts by Pawana
If your "higher beings" are something that you can talk with, you could form contracts with the beings in exchange for power. Great power needs often a great price. The higher the being is, the mor...
What my experience from several read fanfictions is: Most of the writers and readers only like the bad guys, and especialy, if they are gay and sleep with their siblings or the good guy. I don't ...
Maybe your story isn't made for one single novel. Sometimes your plot comes with so many essential storylines, that are important for the main story arc. What I would suggest: Try to sort the char...
That's a thing I read often about on Twitter from colleagues. The most common approach is: Let your character do what he wants. There is a reason that your character developed this way and make way...
Research is an essential part in the path of an author. Be it fictional or non-fictional writing. In fictional writing, you can't do "Das Rad neu erfinden" (german for "Reinventing the wheel"). It...
I don't think that everything has been done already. There are so many possibilities that one can do. There was once Tolkien, who made Elves and Dwarves popular. Then we have Lovecraft with Cthulh...
Personally I dislike resurrections in books. They are often meant to bring back a popular character without a reason. Many did it and there is always a kind of aftertaste. Even if the character is ...
Always keep in mind, that the youth isn't so pure and innocent, like 30 years ago. The most teens start their sexual relationships around 13 and 14 (at least in Germany where I live), some earlier,...
The first draft is like the word says: A draft! The draft is the basic skeleton of your story, not much detail, not much deepness, just in everything: not much This is a fact. Like you said in po...
This question is simply answered: Let others read your work! Others often have a different view on the project, especially if they are not related to you; they often deliver a pretty good review o...
So, I'm likely finished with my idea in form of a novel, but now comes the difficult part with the rewriting. That's when I thought: What are the general Stages of writing? Of course I know the O...
Personally I would prefer the open end. In romance, there are no happy or sad endings. Let's take the scene: ... but one ends up "cheating" ... So: One person was cheating on the other, even...
Even if I'm not really a fan of the stories, I always take Fifty Shades of Grey and Twilight as best example for exactly this question. Fifty Shades of Grey was originally a Fanfiction of Twilight....
this is my first time here. At the moment I'm writing on a little Novel and now I am at the point: My character has a hidden power ( in a World where everyone has a Unique Power, he has two). No...
On my research I stumbled upon this question and it matches somehow with my question, that lingers in my head for a long time. In the mentioned question I read the common thinking is: Switching p...
Death as a person is commonly known to any reader of the "Discworld" series from Terry Pratchett. Also death appears in the series "Supernatural" as one of the apocalyptic riders. Another approach ...
