Cyn‭

You are allowed to use new ISBN stickers on existing books. As defined by the ISO Standard, the ISBN publisher prefix (or "root" of the ISBN) identifies a single publisher. If a second publis...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

The main difference is the ability to be published. To break into TV, you need to live somewhere that produces a lot of TV shows (in the United States, you'd move to Los Angeles and try to hang ou...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Tell it in narration. You have plenty of opportunity to show this character's social pathology in her adult life. And plenty of material to do it with. This establishes her personality and the l...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

The short answer is yes, you can include this type of material. But it really depends on your audience and the scope of the book. You may not want to do it. If you're writing a very fact-based f...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

When I was a graduate student teaching undergraduates how to write research papers, the real problem was over-quoting. Students would quote or paraphrase large amounts of other people's work and n...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I recently finished reading a novel in translation to English from Russian. The title was in Latin (in the original edition, the title was transliterated to Russian, but the English edition was in...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Ask his wife Either you're so much inside his head that you're not seeing him the way others do, or you're an outsider suffering from hero worship. You need to get into other people's heads and s...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

All the other answers are correct: copyright law protects your work even if it's not published and even if you haven't registered it in any way. This is true in the United States, the United Kingd...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Talk to people about what happens when they get nervous so you have a strong database of ideas. And give every character a different set of reactions. The main character in the novel I'm working ...

posted 8y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

You have three issues to solve: There are two different worlds. The sequential nature of each world's chapters (that there are not gaps where the other world's chapters are). The two timelines ru...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

There are two separate issues here: What do you call your story as you pitch it? How would your story be marketed? Although you tag marketing and use the word, you're asking more about the seco...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Pick a name and go with it. If the fact of the new character being future Adrien isn't a secret from the reader, you don't have to worry about names that spoil the surprise. Use whatever name A...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Phonetic spellings. Or something similar to that. Phonetic rendering. Spelling phonetically. Etc. A few resources for you: How to convey accents in fiction writing: Beyond phonetic spelling ...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Chapter names serve many purposes so, as long as your choice is one that fits with other chapter names, it's fine. If you always named the chapter after the POV character then you had one named af...

posted 7y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Awesome work, Paulster2! I upvoted on Writing and Worldbuilding, because I don't belong to the other sites. You might also consider one on History, since that's a place where people writing histo...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭