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 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Yes, it's fine. I would set it off though. Italics might work. Or an indented blockquote style. Or a divider between that line and the rest of the story. You might also make it a fake quote. ...

posted 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Absolutely. My own book is filled with references to Judaism and to American Jewish culture (the number 18 is one). In lots of those cases, it's explicit, but not always. I would venture to say ...

posted 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

I use the "medium" size in Wordpress, which is 500 px width and height proportional as required by the image. This fits across my entire column (depending on the monitor/window size/browser of cou...

posted 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Skipping scenes is usually quite welcome in a novel. Sometimes you don't want to see every step. But the amount of skipping you propose is pretty jarring. You will break your readers out of thei...

posted 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

This makes sense to me because my characters act in very similar ways. Have you ever been in a novel situation in your own life where you did something unexpected? Maybe you intervened when someo...

posted 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

A happy ending is about the emotional response the work as a whole evokes in the reader (or viewer). A sad ending or any other type would be the same. It's the state you've reduced the audience t...

posted 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭