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Answer A: How to write strategy and schemes beyond my real-life capabilities?
One way to depict a brilliant military mind is to find a successful battle or campaign in history which starts from similar conditions to the type of starting conditions you want at the start of the battle or campaign in your story, and then more or less copy the historical battle or campaign. But y...
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about 5 years ago
Answer A: Writing a novel that is set (semi-)inside an established universe
You should read George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman (1969) and it's sequels, in which the "memoirs" of the fictional schoolboy bully from Tom Brown's schooldays by Thomas Hughes (1857) tell of his involvement in many famous 19th century historical events. Fraser thus puts Flashman in the middle of re...
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about 5 years ago
Answer A: Don't look at what I did there
In 1, maybe Charlie says: "How did you find me!" I didn't give you any clues!" And Bob says: "You thought you didn't. With enough internet skill, you can track any post to it's sender." In 2, maybe Mary could be described with wild hair, torn clothing, and bleeding from her ankles and wrists, indic...
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about 5 years ago
Answer A: Should I stick with American terminology in my English set young adult book?
You could have scenes with a family next door or in the next apartment/flat that just moved in from the USA or Canada. Possibly the protagonist could often have to stop and mentally translate their American phrases into British phrases. And so the readers would learn what those British phrases mean a...
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about 5 years ago
Answer A: Is killing off one of my queer characters homophobic?
IMHO no it wouldn't be homophobic. Here is a sort of reductio ad absurdum example. Imagine a story set in a Middle Eastern city in the 13th century (1201-1300) with a population manly Sunni Muslim, with minorities of other Muslim sects, eastern Christians, Jews, etc. The language would be either Pe...
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over 5 years ago