Posts by Amadeus
As commonly understood, "gradually" and "greedily" suggest completely opposite paces. "Greedily" implies quickly, or with an urgency to complete the task. It just doesn't go with "gradually", it ca...
Generally you are correct, your piece has to be judged by readers to be clever, in order to be considered clever by the public. Entities with a larger budget can buy advertising that (without attr...
You just have to consider (or decide) on the level of expertise of your audience. One technique is to write to your slightly-younger self; assume the audience knows as much as you did before you e...
What are the dangers of painting a sympathetic view of the killer through the family of the killer’s perspective and in seeing the obvious interior dysfunction of the killer by seeing inside his m...
Write about the articles themselves. Do research and summarize them; they can't all be identical. Then you can say, with credit, John Smith puts this point best, in his article "What to Do and...
First, you need to identify what you personally consider "powerful" words, or poems, or sentences in fiction. Make a collection of the things you love. Once you have a collection of what impresses...
Original text of question: I strongly believe that such type of dieting as vegetarianism should be pursued by everybody, considering ethical, health, and ecological reasons. First and foremost, it ...
Is there any way to do this without alienating the reader, who may well have invested significant time in the previous part of the story and feel cheated as a result? No. This violates common ...
Every story is different (or it is just plagiarism); "plot structures" come from generalizing stories and the types of events that occur in them. There are serious analysts that claim there are on...
I DON'T think it is okay to introduce a second POV in what is basically the third act and approach to the climax of the story. I think that will throw readers. But the solution, as you are wonding...
Pick one thing that all the characters have in common, and I'd make it subtle. In dialogue, Loki has a favorite word, perhaps a curse, that no other character in the book uses. You might also give ...
The natural way of naming things is to use something unique about them that "everybody knows". For example, "linen" comes from the Latin word "linum" which is the ancient name given to the flax pla...
I'm not giving you examples because you cannot ask "what to write" here. So these are guidelines on writing, given a character. I usually begin with a character. For me, a good character needs to ...
In the modern era should literature embrace the lessons from new media and discard some traditional practices? Of course. But you are wrong about the successful TV Drama season; every episode ...
The new cultures stimulate the imagination. The problems are new, the ways of solving problems are new, what the culture allows is new. Perhaps the technology is new, or so old that we cannot use e...
The reason, as you guessed, is marketing. One word that sums up something memorable about a movie is a mental handle, it can appear in far larger type on a billboard, it eats up only 1 second in a ...
As an academic myself, I write We submit our paper, "title of paper", for your review. In the end I think editors don't care or bias their treatment either way, they deal with numerous submi...
In this day and age should the definition / categorisation of erotica be revised? No. Erotica is a story intended to titillate, it is intended to aid imagination for the purpose of masturbatio...
You have to analyze your own writing. You are weaving together three things. The Plot, the basic events that force characters to take actions. eventX happens, charA respond with eventY, leading ...
Is publishing my story like this likely to be successful? I doubt it, I doubt enough Kindle readers would be interested. If by "published" on Kindle you mean sold on Kindle, I think you have a ma...
how can one effectively ruin an arc for dramatic effect and to subvert expectations If you want to sell something, you can't. In older fiction, maybe, but in modern fiction, forget it. The MC...
By "transfer" I presume you mean transition, leaving the beginning of the story in first person, and just start writing in 3rd. That's going to seem weird, I wouldn't do it. Rewrite from third per...
I like editing, because I like reading my story, and I feel good when I improve a passage. However, I also edit with a specific list of things in mind. I want clarity, I want continuity. I don't w...
What makes it good is a good use of sensory information that the reader can recognize, "a warm blanket on a cold night" is talking about a particular sensory feeling we can relate to. It has to b...
Yes, I believe you will have to change your character's name. I'm not a lawyer, but I believe if the name is trademarked, you can't use it, and you probably can't use anything like it for such a s...
