Posts by sesquipedalias
There's a nice little story about this... from http://www.fantasyliterature.com/author-interviews/jim-butcher/ Q: How did you come up with the original idea for CODEX ALERA? We’ve heard rumo...
Seems totally fine to me. However, what really matters is your actual audience. This sounds like a case where maybe the best approach is to go ahead, write what seems best to you, without worrying ...
One of the major uses of chapter-changes and section-changes is to signal a change of scene (or similar, e.g. passing of time). The show-don't-tell advice in other answers is sound--and with a sect...
It seems you need to come out as an omniscient, reliable narrator and directly tell your audience the fact you want them to have no doubt about. One, often problematic, way to do this is in a prolo...
There's a danger with subverting tropes, in that you can end up giving misleading promises ... e.g. your story seems to be a romcom for the first 20 pages but then !surprise! it's a horror--well, a...
There is a distinction between what the audience can logically deduce and what the audience is emotionally rooting for. The latter can make them blind to the former. A recent example is (Game of T...
Just note that there is an underlying value judgement that inevitably biases your view on the matter. Compare the following: "How to write a sincerely religious protagonist without preaching ...
Study and compare christian dogma vs. actual history. In actual history, there is of course no "jesus succumbed to the devil's temptation" event, since these are mythological characters, but all th...
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