Activity for Piomicronâ€
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How to creep the reader out with what seems like a normal person? The person in question, though this is yet unknown, is not actually a person. Instead, they are some form of eldritch being of which we cannot comprehend. Though, they seem for all appearances and seemingly all mannerisms to appear as human, they are not. The human eyes, but not mind, are fooled. So... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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What is the name of the technique where quotation marks are not closed but reopened to indicate a break in speech > The wizard slid the application over to the goblin. > > "I'm afraid, Mister Barnes, we cannot accept your letter of resignation at present. You are simply too ugly to qualify for an exit scheme, and you are doomed to remain at this company indefinite ly. > > "Fo rtunately for you, you have the ab... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Way to write an unnamed character? Someone I'm proofreading for has a protagonist that, for whatever reason, has a blanked out name. She writes it as '\\\\\' which I feel disrupts the flow a little bit. What way can I recommend that would improve the flow? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Two magical realities, ours isn't one of them. How do I stop my readers from getting confused? I'm writing a story with a world that has different physics, alchemy rather than chemistry, and biology that relies somewhat on magic. The protagonist is not of this world, however he is not of our world either. His powers do not work like the semi-scientific powers of the world he has come to inhab... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Writing a full conversation in free indirect speech I'm writing a conversation between some no-good thievin' teens, and one of them has stolen a wallet, which has turned out to be that of an FBI member. They converse, written in indirect speech, where there's a back-and-forth argument. How do I do this effectively using free indirect? (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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A: How do I write POV with a hive mind character? The trouble with this is, it's difficult to write from many perspectives at a time. This witch is going to be receiving what for us would be a sensory overload. You can't show what one of her puppets was seeing during a time period in one chapter, and another in another in one POV, because there's on... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Is representing distorted voices via different typefaces, and different languages represented by enclosing brackets an advisable thing to do? In the current draft of my book, the evil dictator whose body is encased in a silver alloy talks basically by allowing magic to move to seep into the silver shell, dispelling it and causing vibrations. This voice sounds alien, imperial, and metallic. In order to represent this, I'm currently using a... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |