Posts by F1Krazy
As the other answers have noted, the cast of Game of Thrones do not count as "disposable characters". A character is only really disposable if their only contribution to the plot is getting killed ...
Footnotes informing a reader of which previous work an event occurred in are ubiquitous in comic books, but I've never heard of them being done in a novel before, nor would I really recommend it. T...
"I'm just curious" is not a very compelling argument, especially when you're emailing a random stranger who's probably too busy to answer every such email that enters his inbox. "I'm writing a book...
My answer for this is my answer to any question about portraying an illness or trauma: talk to people who are suffering from it. People with depression and/or suicidal ideation may not always be w...
I'd say yes. That first idea is a "Hope Spot", where the audience is led to believe things might work out after all, only for them not to. It's a fairly common technique (obligatory TV Tropes warni...
First off, I reckon a female artist like Lady Gaga or Madonna would work better as a hint than David Bowie. As others have pointed out, liking feminine men doesn't necessarily mean you like women a...
I am thinking how can I create an effect in the story to make my readers constantly ask the question, how will this end?, like the novels I mentioned above. The relevant concept here is that o...
I've been writing an actual visual novel for a few years, so I'm going to approach this from a game development perspective as much as a writing perspective. To help me with this problem, I borrow...
As Totumus Maximus noted in a comment, the fact that your character loses the fight shows, right off the bat, that she is not going to be an overpowered Mary-Sue who wins everything without even tr...
TL;DR: Your story will inevitably be compared to Harry Potter purely because of how iconic and influential it is within the "magical school" genre, but I definitely wouldn't say it's too similar. ...
Discworld aside, as I'm sadly not very familiar with it, I can think of at least two examples of Death personified being an important, serious character: "The Book Thief", both the original novel...
Not using real brands can give you more creative freedom Funnily enough, I have an example of this from just the other day. I was writing a scene where my protagonist meets his soon-to-be love int...
My personal creative mantra is cribbed straight from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: If it doesn't already exist, I should just make it myself. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever...
I myself have been criticised on at least one occasion for using too many semicolons in my writing. I hadn't noticed at the time, but I really was overusing them. It's one of the quirks of my writi...
If you find it easier to write the novel in third-person, then you should write the novel in third-person. Regarding how to handle switching first-person perspectives, I'm sure there's a question a...
If you had a larger number of plot branches, I would caution you about it, and suggest perhaps trimming one or two of them down. I can think of a few stories with 5-6 plot branches, or even more, a...
Speaking as someone from the UK, I don't believe there is any such anonymity here. The suspect will be named as soon as the press finds out what their name is. The only exception is when they're un...
Both are criminals with no redeeming qualities There's your problem. You have a pair of one-dimensional cartoon supervillains who are evil just because. Those kinds of villains are unrealistic...
How long should a memoir be? The same length as any other piece of prose: exactly as long as it needs to be to tell the story you want to tell. No more, no less. Don't feel like you have to omit an...
How can I avoid such long 'walls' of one-sided dialogue... You don't need to. My writing style is naturally very conversational, especially in my more "slice-of-life"-esque stories: characters...
Diversity is not, and should not be, a box-ticking exercise. If you're inserting minority characters just for the sake of having them there, you're doing it wrong. To address your specific questio...
Expanding my comment into a full answer as OP indicated it was helpful. I can’t drag the antagonist into a Poirot/Sherlock Holmes style Q&A as he's already in jail. Sure you can. Just h...
To quote Batman: "The hammer of justice is unisex." Your hero isn't fighting the villain because she's a woman. He's fighting her because she's a villain. And since she isn't a femme fatale who us...
A couple of other ideas that haven't been suggested yet: The protagonist gets lucky. He's off chasing an unrelated (or seemingly unrelated) lead or clue, and just happens to stumble across eviden...
In my experience: absolutely. Back in 2016 I started writing (very slowly) an anime-inspired romantic dramedy about a 30-year-old NEET whose life has fallen apart. A few months ago I was alerted t...
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