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Posts by DPT‭

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Q&A Should one invest in a professional editor before querying?

I think the answer will vary on your specific situation. There are many 'in-betweens,' between not hiring an editor and hiring an editor. If you do hire an editor, that editor needs to be a good ...

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Q&A Is it alright to add scenes that don’t move the plot forwards much but develop relationships/character?

ANSWER: Yes, and an easy way to make this work is by accentuating 'other goals.' If the necessity of developing those relationships is clear (at least implicit) as character goals, and if we see ...

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Q&A Detail vs. filler

These are great answers. I'd just add (as a sub-answer) that a brown couch is sort of like a happy smile. The adjective doesn't add much of value. It implies nothing much about the couch, or the sm...

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Q&A How do I introduce dark themes?

I don't disagree with the existing answers. The other answer (your additional tools) is to put the dark theme into the title, or cover art, or book blurb. We tend to think the document on our comp...

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Q&A How can I pinpoint a story's moral dilemma?

We gabbed about this today in writers' club. One problem with the exercise is you can fit many suppositions, any manner of supposition, to a piece of expression (a novel). (Rose colored glasses and...

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Q&A Introducing a new POV near the end of a story

I recently re-read Mistborn in preparation to record a bookclub podcast on the novel. Imagine my surprise to discover a new viewpoint, from a character I had never met, named Walin, in the Pits of...

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