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Posts by repomonster‭

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Q&A Avoiding repetition when there are two unidentified individuals

The tall figure was overwhelmingly tall. It stood in the corner of the room. The skinny figure right beside him sat on a chair. It wasn't moving at all. The tall figure moved to the opposite...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by repomonster‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Describing sex in a non-erotic fiction

How explicit should the scenes be? When writing any type of fiction I just skip to the day after the sex took place and heavily imply that the persons in question had sex. Is this ok? Is it better ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by repomonster‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Adapting dialogue from a novel into a screenplay

I would like to adapt a novel I wrote into a screenplay, and I was wondering if there are things to take into consideration before taking the dive. The novel doesn't have a lot of dialogue and I th...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by repomonster‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A What are some ways to make absurdity of certain ideas in fiction more palatable?

I am writing a science-fiction short story where there are a lot of pseudoscientific ideas being dealt constantly. I was wondering how to reduce the absurdity of some of those ideas using literary...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by repomonster‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A What are some ways of extending a description of a scenery?

I find it very hard sometimes to describe a scenery, especially when the features are very bland, like you describe a city where all of the buildings are tall and look about the same or a plain wit...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by repomonster‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is using an 'empty' metaphor considered bad style?

I just had this sentence off my head: A crown of fire spread through the country consuming everything on its way. What I mean by empty metaphor is a metaphor that doesn't really have any me...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by repomonster‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Should the average length of a chapter depend on the length of the novel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_count#In_fiction This Wikipedia page tells you under which classification a fictional work falls under depending on its length, so we have 3 I am most interested...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by repomonster‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Finishing up someone else's novel

One of my friends passed away about a year ago and left me some manuscripts. A rough draft and without a proper ending. I was wondering if I should finish it and how. Should I take the draft and j...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by repomonster‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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