Posts by Amadeus
Make your virtual reality less virtual and more reality. In Contact the 'mysterious stranger' is Jodie Foster's father, and the setting is a beach she knows from her childhood, and the VR is trans...
No, there is no limit, other than how fast she can type. To get published, she would need a parent or guardian to sign publishing contracts on her behalf.
I think this depends on your intended audience; if it is almost entirely Irish familiar with the dialect, leave it. It sounds authentic to them, and is not jarring. Even if it is just that story; w...
Since Questions/Comments covers every possible response, perhaps "Please feel free to respond." Or "I welcome any feedback."
I would not repeat the description in any precise manner, but the same kind of quick thought summary a normal character might have, after whatever length of time has passed. Just enough thread to r...
Begin with showing. That should be your default mode. It is better to write a "show" and delete it to replace it with a "tell", than vice versa. Telling is a kind of shorthand, a fact that has to b...
I don't agree that all story conflicts are moral; I think that is a strange position. Here is how I understand Sanderson's theory. First, that each of the pairings can be used to create conflict. T...
Probably the easiest way is presume the character is intelligent, well read in history and sociology, and unencumbered by "stick in the mud" thinking. An obvious choice would be to make her a profe...
You are writing a first-person novel; as a character in the story standing next to Penry and relating what happened at certain times. So you are speaking directly to the reader at all times. Howev...
You could be describing an immortal, in many such descriptions it looks like they are killed, but they magically heal their wounds and rise. For example, the Outlander series. Usually they can only...
If I answer late, I only answer if I can think of something not already said. With an exception for things said, but I think poorly, or weighted with unnecessary baggage. I +1 anything said that I ...
I don't know about video game fiction; in novels and movies, epilogues are typically very short, and used for the explanation of the future. In a movie, just a few minutes (2 or 3 pages, about 2% o...
Farscape Translator Microbes. In the SyFy series Farscape, Translator Microbes infected everybody, including the human thrust into this alien universe. In the pilot episode, John Crichton pops out...
I would say, don't give it to them. There is a maxim in the writing world, that stories are not about facts, but the truth. What it means is that "what really happened" and "how I really reacted" ...
It depends on the more subtle meaning you wish to convey. The obvious solution would be to combine it into one sentence: Rebecca lived in the same building as my wife and I, and was one our cl...
I don't think this story will work, or your solutions are viable, for the reasons you wrote. You violate reader trust from the beginning, the first person narrator knows he intends to kill everyone...
For what it's worth, I am a professor in CS and a mathematician, and I've published in peer-reviewed academic journals original work in the field of statistics, and worked extensively in AI. he...
Chapters are not necessary, but help readers understand what is happening. There ARE chapters in films, signaled by "establishing shots", the first orientation shot that tells the viewer the time/...
I think that depends on the nature of your narrator. If it is third person limited (the narrator only described the thoughts and feelings of one character, and the story is told by following that c...
Beta or not does not matter, whether a patch exists does not matter, write it up. Document it. Like your previous question, this is a business matter, not a documentation issue you should decide f...
Characteristics you introduce are often unintentional promises. To be too obvious here, if I write a character from the beginning that was a long distance sniper in the Marines, but he is leaving ...
You don't have to do anything special at all. First you will seek an agent, with a query letter. Look up on the Internet or in writing books on Amazon how to write a query letter. Do not mention y...
I would just format what you did a bit differently, you can get the tempo you want in the reading by just adding more words. Don't be afraid of that, beginning writers often confuse "getting it out...
To convey an underlying message, "X is better than Y", you need to present your "argument" in terms of scenes and characters and have the outcomes for these characters prove the point. For example...
If your main character is Caucasian, then she would call the new girl whatever the Asians have been calling them, concerning race. If your MC is NOT Caucasian, and doesn't know the word, then typi...
