Posts by Stilez
A few tricks come to mind. One that your description strongly suggests is similar to Agatha Christie's "And then there were none", which might be exactly the kind of work you are looking for. It ma...
I'm a bit stuck on what should be a straightforward plot issue but not sure what is actually realistic. The character is going away into tera incognita (effectively exile until a deadly enemy has ...
Working within your premise of "novel as message", very few messages are black-and-white. Most will bring problems if ignored and also if taken too far, or too literally. Humans (and maybe any othe...
Ask yourself (or inquire) what such a person is experiencing. It could be "I remember shaking, and then the next thing I knew was...", and they know how they felt (hot, exhausted?) and are told ...
There's an ambiguity in the OP's question which we need to consider first. When we say a character is irredeemable, do we mean in and of themselves (without external reference), or to a neutral th...
