Posts by Cyn
Do you think teenage girls are too stupid to know when they're being pandered to? Do you think publishers of young adult fiction would not notice that an author is not familiar with the genre and ...
In academic writing, this is appropriate. You don't want to do an entire paper like this but, yeah, those individual references are important. If this was a news article you could say: Goodma...
Beta readers can be helpful in a variety of ways. They will of course help you with the content of your work. But if you have other elements in place, include them too. For example, try to set a...
I find it odd and unusual for a world to be inhabited by sentient beings where no one ever mentions or relates to religion. But it is completely fine for your characters to be atheists or just not...
Yes. A series is a sequence of related works under the same title (individual works/books/episodes can have their own names). A TV or novel series can be chronological pieces of the same story (B...
Find yourself an audience. Here's a situation where it's impossible to guess based on your description. We have no way of knowing if your poem is a hot mess, a psychedelic journey, or an literary...
The short answer is, there is no such thing as too much diversity! Especially when authorship comes from the community being portrayed. So many times mainstream (i.e., white) writers/producers/pu...
Yes, if the narrator is in the present telling a story about the past. The narrative is telling a story about something that has already happened. So it's in past tense. But then the narrative p...
It's extremely important for media to depict people out of the gender/sexuality mainstream as normal. So your best bet is to do exactly that: have a diversity of characters and show it all as perf...
Do it exactly the same way the company does it. If you know what job to apply for, it's because you saw it in an ad, on their website, or in another listing. The hyphen and the slash are used d...
I think you're fine. In a novel, mentioning a character is very much like showing a character. In the sense of how this character embeds himself in the reader's mind. Obviously, it matters how y...
It's okay to have a Blue Period. Picasso's lasted 4 years and was fueled by depression. He produced amazing paintings during this time and it was something he felt compelled to do. It's makin...
The main character has to relinquish his old life. His boyfriend is just one part of that. What else is the MC giving up? His friends His family (they will stay his family but he can't see th...
A Glossary Is not a Substitute for Clear Writing If you were writing a nonfiction book where precise vocabulary was required, I'd say, yes, include a glossary! If you were writing a very detailed...
The idea that inspired you has a Wikipedia page! Let me narrow down your question from (basically): Can I take another author's idea and base a book on it? to Can I use a well-known sett...
Yes! Change it! When I saw the title my first thought was, do whatever you want, as long as it works. Then I read the question...and...it doesn't work. It's very distracting. If you use it...
No one will reject your manuscript because of one or two typos. But, yes, it needs to be in correct English (or whatever language you're using) with very few mistakes. This applies to your cover ...
Identify your situation with the plight of other workers deserving of tips People don't tip because they think you need the money. They tip because they understand your employer is not paying you...
How to plagiarize: Deliberately steal someone's work. This is always ethically wrong and usually illegal too. Students who do this get expelled or otherwise punished. Authors who do this get l...
You can have the murder be of someone the MC knows, or of a stranger, but they will be different stories. If the murder victim is someone the MC knows, the MC's intentions will always be clouded w...
You can't copyright a name, you can only trademark it (which is expensive). Chaos Realm seems pretty generic to me. After all, you did come up with it independently. Even being legal, I wouldn'...
If a work was published in more than one place, you only have to cite it once. You can pick which publication to cite. Edited to add comment from another answer: Original source vs secondary sou...
I don't think there is a particular word because the actor is the former slave owner. He or she is the one who freed Tsidia. So your descriptions would be about how Tsidia influenced the action...
Talk to the store Every bookstore will have an employee who sets up signings, meet and greets, readings, etc. Tell them you're the author of a book they sell and you're interested in doing that. ...
Use the form of the comic to tell your story. This is a comic. A good artist will be able to show the transition back into sleep without a single word. Direct your artist (if it's not you) to dr...
