A. Kvåle‭

Okay, there is some preliminary information for you to be able to answer this question: There is a sword of great power, a McGuffin, and a destined one who wields it. The destined one has two compa...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Amadeus‭

I feel there is a common audience trend in favoring the side characters more than the MC. And I believe "literary science" backs that up, in regards to character focus. That even though the MC's ch...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mark Baker‭

Your book's universe is not ours. There is allowed to be a dissonance between how things work in your world, and how they work in ours. There's allowed to be different definitions to words in your ...

posted 7y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I wonder if when talking about characters (in a book with a third perspective narrator) one can list their personality traits. I realize how that might be taking something away from the story, as I...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I'm writing a novel with many POVs, and this is a very flexible story. It started out with a few POVs who had one plot, and now there is a lot more, having been integrated in between those previous...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

In my book (fantasy novel), there's a character named Brad. Unfortunately, Brad has become synonymous with "douchebag". Now, when I first introduced him I just came up with a name. It needed to be...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I hope this question is not mainly opinion based, I'm really just looking for a writer's handbook/source/acclaimed author saying this is either good, okay or bad. I think it might not be so good, w...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I have this duo in my novel, they're always together in chapters. Usually the story alternates between them within their plot, though mostly leaning to one of the characters, as he's one of the MCs...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

When I first learned about the "show don't tell" guideline, I believe it applied to everything. I have now learned there are many grey areas, like for example exposition, and that the most importan...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I know there's a lot of questions regarding this topic, but none of them delved too deep into if there's a different level intimacy between the two perspectives. People have told me that FPP in a...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Please do not make this a duplicate, I know there's a couple of questions like this, but they are not quite like my question, and their answers don't answer my question to the fullest, hence me ask...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

When my work was being critiqued, one of the critics said that the exposition given away in my dialogue was forced and unnatural. Though, this exposition is crucial, so leaving it out is out of the...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Her clothes screamed bohemia, with a prominent cleavage, leather bands running up her arms and nails painted black. In my book there is a romance between two 15-year-olds, and the book is from...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

When posting an excerpt of my book on a critiquing site, someone commented on my use of "hahaha" inside the dialogue instead of just having a laughing verb after or before it. They said it took the...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I'm writing a non-comedic fantasy novel, and I find myself using onomatopoeic words, like "SLAM!" and "TWISH" (for the shooting of arrows). To my knowledge, onomatopoeic words are almost only used ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by A. Kvåle‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭