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Question Is the sentence "Love not self - love no one" easily understandable to an English reader?
This question is not about syntactical correctness. I do not care about that. The only thing I care about is to be understood properly. That's why I'm asking it here and not ELL. The meaning of sentence is "If you don't love yourself, you can love no one" or "To love someone else you should love you...
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almost 6 years ago
Question Will it push away a reader if I start my book with the frame story?
So, I'm writing a novel where MC believes he is influenced in some way by an entity he calls Common Sense. He suspects (yet that is weaker than belief) that he is Common Sense's hand in this world, something like an avatara in Hindu. But the book starts with the story of Common Sense himself, not of...
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almost 6 years ago
Question Is writing solely about writing a plot?
I often hear that a writer should not write something that is not tightly linked to the plot. "If you can narrate it without it, drop it from your story" - that's what I see. However, is it really bad to include something just for fun or just because it conveys the rare (exotic and interesing) idea?...
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almost 6 years ago
Question Promoting controversial opinions in a work of fiction
I'm writing a first person novel and main character has highly controversial views, many of which the majority of people would probably consider immoral. Would a character with controversial attitudes be a no-no for a reader? Or maybe a publisher? Of course, it maybe possible that his attitudes inst...
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about 6 years ago