Posts by Amadeus
I don't think it is too important. I read a story (can't remember the name) in which two POVs were presented, one from like a century ago, and one in the future! The early POV was an ancestor of th...
How can chemistry be perceived without giving evidence that they will be a couple in the future? You can make the chemistry perceptible without going over the top, but then you need a barrier ...
It is fine to extend a sentence after a tag, and the first form is correct: "he said" should also be followed by a comma. "I don't like this at all," he said, as the door closed behind them.
If Saskia is his biological mother, presumably she was bisexual, not exactly gay. So although in the LGBTQ community, she was not lesbian or gay, you aren't following that trope. But that is nitp...
You likely need to do a trademark search, and see if the title is trademarked. Go to The USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office). Select "Basic Word Mark Search", the first option in t...
Is she supposed to be aware of everything happening around her and to her if I'm writing in the first person? Yes. But she can be aware and not understand. She can see and describe things sh...
You indicate pauses with action, even mentioning the pause. (Or, as Cyn says in comment, with other exposition or thoughts). Chad said, "Was the computer software hacked?" Bryce shook his ...
A Master for your Student I would solve this issue by creating a Master for your Student. Either a new character, or re-purpose an existing character. In The Karate Kid, Daniel (Student) is a new...
Endings are actually the biggest problem that discovery writers face. Plotters usually have the most trouble in the middle; discovery writers tend to progress fluidly through the middle (because ch...
I don't think there are standards. I would NOT include any personal information that doesn't add to your credibility in the main topics you write about. In the modern world, I would not even inclu...
Narrating what she did, instead of where she is from, is always a good idea. Here's why! What she did (and what she experiences) is immediate, we can imagine the scene. If she is bullied, or discr...
Humor in fiction, sci-fi or not, needs to feel organic and natural occurring, like something that might actually happen or be said spontaneously in real life. If it is a joke, it must fit the chara...
What makes us as humans interested in reading about the suffering of the characters in the story? In fiction, they don't expect that suffering to last, at least not for the main characters or...
Can it be effective instead to move the Inciting incident to the very beginning? No. Obviously that is my opinion, and you may find some decent writing that has done that; good writers have b...
I think the problem with the blue-pink subversion is that there is no clear reason why; other than the intent to surprise the reader. And secondly, it is not clear this trope subversion has any act...
That's tough, it sounds like a hundred page wall of dialogue to me. To eliminate most of it, I'd resort to flashback. Flashbacks are not that popular anymore; but they would be better than an endl...
No, I don't think it would be okay for a bad guy to win in the end. Readers don't like it. They read for fantasy fulfillment. Happy endings outsell unhappy endings ten to one; publishers and studi...
I'm not a RPG player, but it sounds to me like you are engaged in standard fiction writing with a 3rd person neutral narrator; perhaps unlimited (knows what all characters think and feel). The play...
One possibility is to not use the adjective: "Select a printer". Another is to use the adjective appropriate to the action: Sometimes you mean "Select a disk", sometimes (like for formatting) you ...
You write slow. It is fine to put yourself into the character and see how you would react, but take your time describing that. Get into the details. This isn't a "real time" exercise, the length o...
I am an old-school writer without fancy software (I have tried it and don't like it). So if I realize a previous event could have been explained better, I will back up and do it. However, I have a...
I think it is a job for rewrite. I do not even THINK about my character's physical traits very much until such a trait becomes necessary to the plot -- Say for example I have actor characters, and ...
Do you have a favorite character in your web comic? Perhaps you can use her name as your pen name. Make it a name that can't be real, and Google it and make sure you get no hits.
I would not exactly try to convince them, just make sure they have some doubt. I would do that by having (or inventing) a conflict: One character that believes the opposite of another character. H...
"if it's not advancing the story and can be removed without affecting it, then it shouldn't be there". That has to be taken in a more general sense. Showing things about how a character thinks...
