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How can I convey her inner conflict and inability to trust herself in an effective way? You have to first make the reader be willing to trust her, then voice her inner questions, and only finally ...
I think that the statement is very generic. It could be used on just any review in any topic. Make it more specific. Or remove it given that it is essentially content-free For instance, This chapt...
When bored, the mind often just wanders in thoughts of its own. The repetitive scene can be a moment for the character to express his/her thoughts, or for the author to introduce flashbacks. You ca...
Great characters need not be perfect, but they will definitively strive to achieve perfection. If a reader is caught in the detail of all the meat and eggs that your characters eat, rather than dra...
I would normally advise to write it as you think it should be written. It is your artwork, made out of a piece of your most personal experience. Having reached the point that you feel you are ready...
In general, no In German medieval times, it sounds unlikely that a princess, i.e. the daughter of a living king, would be able to join the army in any credible manner. The main reason is that she ...
Real name > Fake name That is true if and only if the narrator is supposed to know the real name of the character. For instance, in a first person narrative, the narrator may not be privy to su...
Three questions, whose answers may help avoiding reader's confusion: 1. Why should the reader care? You have attempted to lay down the foundation of a new grammar for achieving something. To simp...
The most obvious, simplest and platform-independent way to achieve your request is to format the blog title entries as: YYYY-MM-DD : title Another alternative is to alter the publication date...
If the point of view is the same in the two types of narration, then keep it so. If it changes, then adapt the text accordingly. In your example, if you wish to rewrite: I went there. and keep...
One alternative is to "postpone and dilute". It is in fact likely that a very small amount of all the infodump is needed to get the scene running. Add the other elements as you go. To think of a p...
Independent of the Referencing system, your option (1) seems the most reasonable: you are quoting the question correctly and entirely, i.e. the text inside the double-quotes is exactly the text y...
Maybe a third person omniscient narrator would serve you better. This narrator knows the inner streams of thoughts of every character in the story, hence it can expose them in the narration as requ...
It is not the personality, it is the style Following on the OP's generalisation, a narrator can be divided in at least two parts: the persona the narrating style The persona is the entity itse...
I would inspire myself to existing chatbots These are just two examples that came to mind, I hope they help: Emacs psychotherapist a rather old one, asking questions on the previous statement wi...
this is a slight variation on one aspect of Erk's answer. Place yourself in the situation of your character. You're forced by fear to go cautiously from cover to cover, perhaps moving slowly, care...
