Posts by Secespitus
Your readers won't care about your age Sometimes an author will write a little autobiographic blurb that is printed at the end of the book. If you do this and you mention your age in there your re...
In my opinion Release Notes should be written in a technical style, focused on the technical implications of the most recent changes. This makes them sort of a mix between the two worlds - you want...
Yes, you can start a chapter with a completely new character/time/setting - as long as you show your reader where and when the story currently is As always this depends on what you want to achieve...
If there is such a huge time difference and there are no big temporal skips in the rest of the book this would likely be a good prologue. Because of the difference this would feel to the reader lik...
It depends on your genre - in horror games this can be a very good decision If you are going for a darker themed game, and your description suggests that you are doing this, then having multiple b...
This depends on the message you are trying to convey If you are writing fiction you may use archaic speech to make a character unique, or you may have everyone speak that way to show how the socie...
Negative feelings resonate in humans more strongly than positive ones - but a positive spin is needed for long term motivation Humans have a tendency to value what they have, and therefore what th...
What you need is inspiration - try throwing a coin The problem is that you only have the start - but not the end. Without knowing where you want to go it will be hard to flesh out the middle part ...
You would do this by mentioning the things he always has to do, preferrably in a dialogue or in a monologue from the character themselves if there are no others around. Random Person 1: "Hey, ...
I was reading some questions and answers on this site about writing for video games, when I stumbled upon this answer that mentions some things I am not familiar with. In an ideal world, there wo...
The narrator should normally use the real name and be consistent with the usage. Have a look at the question Would it be cheating to change the main character's “name” partway through the story? ...
In case you are starting from scratch and are free to choose whichever form you like you should have a look at the excellent answer from Monica Cellio. But: in case you are in an established compa...
This depends on which aspects of the war you want to look at. For your example with the child and the family in general it might be better to take the already explained path: explore the implicatio...
Clockpunk Most of the following comes from the article: Punkpunk: A Compendium of Literary Punk Genres First of all, appending "punk" at the end is often used to show that the main character or c...
As long as the change is obvious that sounds like an interesting take on naming your character. You should think about how the exact change happens - it's probably unnatural if your narrator sudden...
Locations that probably haven't changed too much The most useful things to have a look at in a case like yours are the landmarks that probably haven't changed too much, such as: nearby mountains...
You are on the right track, but apparently your showing was not explicit enough. A possible problem might be that you have a perfectly fine image of the mother in your mind, but you never communica...
A hook is something that catches your reader in the first moments and continues to reel them in at a differing pace throughout your work. That's about it. The first page, if not the first coupl...
I looked it up on this site: owl.english.purdue.edu (emphasis mine) Long quotations For quotations that are more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse, place quotations in a fre...
I have read/played a couple of "Choose your own adventure"-style book and am interested in the process of creating one. Where can I find (preferrably free) online resources, such as How-To-Write o...
Change the pace throughout the fight Most fight scenes that use hand-to-hand combat, swords, daggers and the like change their pace a few times. For example you could start slow with the opponents...
It's the other way around - How you present your story is more important than What you are presenting There are only a couple of different base-stories in existence. I've heard different numbers r...
If you want to refer to an object with a male or female pronoun because using "it" doesn't feel right, then there is nothing wrong with it - it's your decision as the author and only you can know w...
Omit for The problem is that modulate means that something modulates something else. Your sentence reads as if you want to say that the spiritual treatment might change the patient's already healt...
No, there is no software that would automate the translation of newly written paragraphs for you This is not something you would normally do. You might think that you are "going in one straight pa...
