Posts by Lauren Ipsum
Look at her motives. "Tough love" is someone making hard calls or asking difficult things for the right reasons. A parent making you get up at 6:00 a.m. to go to school no matter how tired you are...
I think the main advantage is interior life. You can use narration or thoughts to give us what one character is (or several are) thinking. That's hard to do visually without a cabbagehead character...
If your goal is hectic momentum, then two-sentence paragraphs with a visual indicator of "scene change" might work. Colonel Mustard frantically wiped up the table. No one would believe he hadn...
Use Scrivener. My answer here is heavily adapted from my answer to a different question, but I think it will be helpful to you: Scrivener is a tremendously flexible writing program. You can creat...
When asked some variant of "Where do I start?" my mom likes to joke "Start at the beginning, go all the way through the middle, and when you get to the end, stop." In this case, that might make sen...
Maybe enclose the words in some other punctuation? Brackets: "Wow! You [finally listened to] my stinking advice!" Curly Brackets: "Wow! You {finally listened to} my stinking advice!" G...
