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Answer A: What should tie a collection of short-stories together?
Mainly ask yourself what will draw someone to buy this book. Sometimes it is a famous name, sometimes it is a genre, sometimes it is a theme (first contact, combat with aliens, giant thinking tanks, etc.). There are already many good answers here. I will mention another way to collate the stories. ...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: Stereotypical names
There is nothing wrong with using common names for characters unless you over use them. If everyone has the most common names for their region, the readers may start paying attention to that instead of your story. That being said, there are ways of playing with it. You could use it to break expectat...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: Showing mass murder in a kid's book
Use the actual text that you gave in the question in your story. You can either use it whole and then let the kids react to the event after the fact or you can break it up and show the kids' reactions as things are happening. This approach kind of lets you off the hook. You aren't doing this to the...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: How can I trim my word count and still be proud of what I've written?
Don't cut down, restart from scratch and build up. You've already done the major work. So, write a summary for your 3000 word document. Summarize the 3 most important points that you want someone to get out of it (or even the 1 most important point). Start with a sentence. Then write a paragraph....
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over 5 years ago