Posts by Liquid
You don't need to be able to build homemade explosive to describe a character who does. You just need to give the reader the impression that the character knows what he/she's up to. Most of the r...
If you think it would be a cheap trick, then don't do it. But it is an already somewhat estabilished tecnique - there are tons of books where the prologue has a different PoV from that of the mai...
As Matthew Dave pointed out, you don't really need dialogue for that kind of flashbacks. They are memories shared in a common, telephatic link; you can write them as a series of vivid images - citi...
Well, kind of a wide question, but you already got the hang of it: the entire worldview, it changes from character to character The whole point is having a clear idea of who your character are. A...
As far as I'm concerned, story comes first. That's just because you can almost do endless worldbuilding (worldbuilding.se has countless examples of all the aspects you can consider while doing so...
How do I make it clear that my character is narrating the story in a different language from the one she speaks? You already have the answer. Of course, it's well and good that you say it outright...
Being inspired is a thing; copying entire jokes or catch-phrases may be overdoing it, and rightly be called stealing. I agree with @Chris Sunami that it would already seem that your on the safe s...
While I get with what you are saying, and I deeply agree, sometimes genre conventions can be useful. If you want to tell a story - let's say, featuring a distant future and space-travel - you don...
I second @Matthew Dave answer: if that's the story you want to tell, you definetely should. As for examples of this happening... Several spoilers ahead: Martin's Song of Ice and Fire Obery...
Are chapters with a single character inherently more difficult for an average reader to connect with? And why that should be? I mean, I don't have the average reader preferences (nobody has, proba...
As people are already suggesting, you could seal away or make ineffective your antagonist in a number of way. Sure, you said the enemy can't be imprisoned, but you could find other ways to incapaci...
You're overthinking it too much. The Myers-Briggs can be nice (I have a friend who did - sorta - an extensive research on it) and surely its good to know your character so well that you can type th...
Adding to A.T Catmus answer, mental communications could have a sort of "flavour". As humans we are able to determine emotions of a speaker only judging by a spoken sentence; thoughts could be tre...
I'll add to the already good answers: effective ways to describe fear, doubt, exhaustion, love... There are a lot of writing guides out there, some more general, some more specific. Some bad,...
I've read a lot of novels were a very likeable character is introduced just to vanish and reappear at another time. It's pretty normal; after all, you have to tell a story, and in most stories, not...
Yes, but the possessor changes the MC's sensory experience so drastically from what's actually there that it would be impossible for the reader to tell what's happening in the 'real' world. ...
Torturers don't need to be fit or strong, they need to be possibly scary, knowledgeable, and competent at what they do. There are a lot of kinds of torture and "beating someone senseless" is just o...
As a creative writer in my free time, I sometime suffer from a lack of feedback. To get some impressions on what I've written, I either have to ask my girlfriend (who acts as a sort of beta-reader)...
Half a page is not that much, unless you have a very strict limit in term of page number. Since the results are important to back up your findings, it's probably a good idea to show them in the mai...
It depends on the rest of your text. I'd personally go with option 2, since it sounds more impersonal and straight-to-the-point, but if you already used something like the first option previously...
First of all I'm not a doctor and good luck with your schizoaffective disorder. I cannot imagine the extent of its effect over your life; that's something you have to judge by yourself. But from ...
Is it possible? Of course it is; almost everyone does it, in a form or another. How to do it well, now, is a whole other question. Avoid Interleaving Edit: Just to be sure, here I'm talking abou...
I agree with ggiaquin answer, but I'd advise against giving the character some overly nasty habits if it isn't necessary just to make them more unsymphatetic, as other users have suggested. Adding...
I was writing a similar story once. Building romance is not the easiest of things, so I feel you. I'd say that you have to put yourself in their shoes. Think of the most interesting or probable w...
If you want the Big Reveal to be taken seriously, just present it as such. Make it serious. A 4th wall break cannot happen unless you specifically want it. Sure, some of your players will smirk and...
