Activity for Totumus Maximusâ€
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A: In a first-person web novel, how to make the reader aware of a motivator the POV is unaware of? Have a third party observe his actions and let them linger on the MC's reasons for doing what he did. This way you can let the MC be oblivious to his own reasons for sparing his enemy, while the reader becomes aware of it. This technique is also seen a lot with unlikeable antiheroes. A third party e... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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A: Are there any general rules or guidelines for using newly coined word(s) or neologism? There is no problem in using new (or even non-existent) words in your story. However... Writers do this all the time. It is part of the experience to develop a larger vocabulary. But when we learn a new word that we want to use, it is our task to try not to disturb the reader too much by making him ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Of plottwists and endings While writing my story this has come up in my mind a lot. I have been planning and foreshadowing this major plottwist near the end of my story. But the effects of it might change my world utterly and completely. Invalidating the story arcs and progress of my side characters. So I have planned to com... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Can you have too many story arcs running at the same time? I've written about 15k words of my story now and the plot is developing nicely. Perhaps a bit too nicely. I have about a dozen of named characters which all have something interesting to do in the next part of the story. They will separately add something uniquely to the plot. They all seem to go a ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Sizing of a chapter and how many should I use? This is basically a follow-up question I asked here: Scene switching and how to do it? I always considered it normal for a chapter to have between 3000 and 5000 words. And people around here thought so too: What is a normal length for a chapter?But the comments I got from my "Scene switching" questi... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Scene switching and how to do it? So I am writing a story that is in my head for millions of years already and it is finally progressing. I like how things going for a first draft and I am pretty happy to get things going. But lately I have created a lot of characters that accompany my MC. The story advances in such a way that it re... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |